Zombie Extortion

Standard*

VThornheart

Creature (23)

• 4x Basilica Screecher
• 4x Corpse Blockade
• 3x Crypt Ghast
• 4x Geralf's Messenger
• 4x Gravecrawler
• 4x Thrull Parasite

Land (23)

• 23x Swamp

Instant (11)

• 3x Altar's Reap
• 4x Murder
• 4x Victim of Night

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Sign in Blood

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 4x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 4x Shadow Alley Denizen

Instant (4)

• 4x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Mutilate

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 4x Diregraf Ghoul
• 4x Shadow Alley Denizen

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Underworld Connections

Instant (5)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 4x Gravepurge

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Sign in Blood

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An experiment I've been thinking about, combining Zombie aggro with extort. Notable interesting interactions:

• Thrull Parasite + Geralf's Messenger = potential for multiple Geralf triggers
• Gravecrawler and low CMC for repeatable/easier procs of Extort
• Card draw to draw into more cheap creatures to play for extort and attack
• Crypt Ghast to keep the engine fueled with mana

I still have many pending questions and unknowns that I could use advice on.

For one, the deck obviously would benefit from multiple deaths and re-remergences of Geralf's Messenger and Gravecrawler. What should I use for my sac engine? Corpse Blockade's 3 mana, but it's another zombie for Gravecrawler's recasting purposes and a decent blocker. However, Bloodthrone Vampire could pump as I sac, and she costs 1 mana less. Then there's the Taskmaster, for which Geralf or GC would be a great sac engine. I'm having a hard time deciding.

As another question, would it be worth it for me to go Orzhov (White & Black)? I know there's some cards that'd be beneficial in there, including getting access to more Extorts.

Yet another question... in this situation is Crypt Ghast a "Win more" card? It definitely makes for a snowball of damage once he comes out, but he's a prohibitive 4 cmc.

I value your input!

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 8 - 3 Rares 4 - 4 Uncommons 22 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.27