What is the deck?
The deck is very fast resilient legacy homebrew made completely by myself. It is quite synergistic, as you might expect from a tribal deck. It is not as easy to use as a normal aggro deck because you have to manage your resources well, such as life total (which can drop to a very low amount) the number of creatures you have (this can drop very fast if you just sacrifice your zombies to
Carrion Feeder
, and your graveyard, which as to stay full for
Rotting Giant
.
How does this deck play?
This deck plays by dropping a large number of small fast zombies, that have good p/t for cost, and swinging with them. Some of them have utility affects. Shepard of Rot allows us to deal massive amounts of damage to our opponents. It will often drop a discard spell first, play some zombies, then kill anything that gets in our way.
What cards do we use?
Thoughtseize and Cabal Therapy-Good discard. Insanely useful to kill off anything that could hose our zombies. Cabal Therapy has good synergy with Gravecrawler.
Tragic Slip, Dismember, and Disfigure-Targeted removal that can kill annoying creatures that get in the way our horde.
Blood Scrivener
-This card is very useful because it allows us to refill our hand once we play everything in it (which happens often) and its a zombie.
Carnival of Souls
-A card that I'm considering taking out, because I don't want to waste turn two playing no zombies. However, we can chain quite a few zombie off each other. Also combos with
Carrion Feeder
and Gravecrawler.
Carnophage
-A one drop zombie that is a 2/2. Super useful, and it helps the deck out a lot.
Carrion Feeder
-A tricky card. It allows us to get a giant zombie, but it also shouldn't just sacrifice willy-nilly because then Shepard of Rot dosen't work as well. It could also get Swords to Plowsharesed. Synergy with
Rotting Giant
.
Diregraf Ghoul-A 1 for a 2/2 zombie with virtually 0 drawbacks. So what if it ETB tapped? I don't need to be blocking with it anyway.
Gravecrawler-Recurring Zombie that is a 2/1 for 1. It might just be the best zombie in the deck. Synergy with
Carrion Feeder
.
Rotting Giant
-A 3/3 for 2 that has a drawback that the deck can reasonably ignore. Synergy with
Carrion Feeder
.
Sarcomancy
-A 2/2 for 1 with no drawback in this deck. Plus, you can choose what token you want to use (there's lots of them).
Sheperd of Rot
-Hurts you as much as it hurts your opponent, but if played right, it can be very powerful. Use with caution.
16 Lands-These lands are a working proggress. Please tell me how I should balence utility with not getting colored screwed....
Do you own the deck?
No, but if the deck gets enough support, I will buy it. Most of it is pretty cheap. I have a very low budget, so I might l play a version without Wasteland/other expensive cards.
What advice do you need?
-Should I use
Carnival of Souls
?
-Should I use
Accursed Centaur
?
-How can I balence ultiity with not getting color screwed?
-Any and all advice is welcome. I don't play legacy very often, so advice for combating decks in the meta would be helpful.