Corpse Churn

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Corpse Churn

Instant

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

shitballsman on Extus/Awaken the blood avatar graveyard …

10 months ago

something like Corpse Churn, seeing if i can include these reanimate spells even if i cast the awaken side

IHATENAMES on Budget Mirrodin Besieged

2 years ago

Hand disruption might serve you better then trying to hard cast leyline in the sideboard. More emrys would help you a lot. Otherworldly Gaze for mill. a 1 of Wonder for evasion. Stinkweed Imp Self mill in dredge. Corpse Churn random mill with recursion. the one spot where King Narfi's Betrayal would be good? Just random ideas

wallisface on

2 years ago

Some thoughts:

  • 17 lands is crazy low for pretty much any deck. Burn runs ~18 usually, and most their deck is 1cmc. Having any 3 or 4 drops your wanting to realistically cast should put you at 22 lands minimum. Keep in mind a bunch of your cards are fairly mana hungry even after they’re down, with morph and/or level-up costs.

  • Ultimate Price feels like a bad card, when you could be running more copies of Abrupt Decay and Assassin's Trophy . Nameless Inversion also seems bad, but I do get why you’re running that (i just don’t think the payoff is worth it).

  • I don’t see any practical reason for you to be running Corpse Churn . You don’t really fill the yard much and you’re creatures aren’t really worth reviving.

  • Duress is a really concerning card for hand disruption, because it can just auto-suck in a lot of matchups. I’d be tempted to leave it just in the sideboard, if your budget can’t afford the better hand disruption cards.

  • imo, ditch Sign in Blood . It costs you a turn and oftentimes will make your board position worse, not better.

BrassLord on Faceless Betrayal (updated)

2 years ago

Dimir Zombies seems to be the way to go! Duress Feed the Swarm Cling to Dust or something like Blood on the Snow are all decent sideboard inclusions for any deck running black.

Surprised not to see Murderous Rider in the list, that card is a pretty decent utility zombie! If you're leaning into the self mill thing, I've been on the painful receiving end of an early game Egon, God of Death  Flip. Also the flip side of Jorn, God of Winter  Flip is really useful with snow permeants.

For recursion, Corpse Churn and Call of the Death-Dweller are both really good ways to get back your zombies. Lurrus of the Dream-Den is another often overlooked source of recursion, though not a zombie. It does give you a more consistent grindy end game though when paired with Priest of the Haunted Edge and an early Liliana's Steward .

triproberts12 on Hogaak Persist Combo

4 years ago

Isn't this backwards of how these leagues normally work? I thought the winner is the only one that doesn't get the budget bump, so the most powerful deck doesn't snowball.

Anyway, Mindwrack Harpy is the most pushed intro deck card I've ever seen. That's my first add.

I also like putting in more creatures with ETB effects. It's kind of awkward that you'll want to tap mana dorks for Hogaak. Glowspore Shaman, Golgari Thug, Crow of Dark Tidings, Gamekeeper, and Mire Triton can all help get Hogaak out by turn 3 if you have a good turn 1 play.

There are a lot of good gold cards in BG graeyard stuff, too: If you have anyone that's relying on indestructibility, Drown in Filth is a good budget option to feed your graveyard. If you're built around Hogaak, I'd think it should regularly be a hard removal spell with upside. Nyx Weaver is just a great card in any graveyard deck, and cheap, too. Jarad's Orders is a good double-tutor. Underrealm Lich is worth the $2, in my opinion. I would also ask yourself whether Eternal Witness is $3.50 better than Acolyte of Affliction/Golgari Findbroker/Treasured Find. Storrev, Devkarin Lich didn't get much fanfare, but the power and price tag are there.

Animist's Awakening is good value at just over $1. World Shaper and Splendid Reclamation are a little more expensive, but higher impact than other $4-5 cards I see in the list. Lower on the ramp ladder, note that Harrow and Springbloom Druid put a land in the yard. Funeral Rites isn't a bad draw spell for this deck. Same for Winding Way, Gather the Pack and Relentless Pursuit. Syphon Mind doesn't have much to do with the theme, but I start with it in most of my black value decks. Dark Deal could be very good, especially if your draw power is maximized and you can use your yard as a second hand. Greenwarden of Murasa is just a powerful card. Same for Phyrexian Delver.

Some other general budget cards for considering: Ransack the Lab, Corpse Churn, Dead Reckoning, Grapple with the Past, Hatchery Spider, Millikin, Mindwrack Demon, Once and Future, Splinterfright, The Mending of Dominaria, Skullwinder, Blood for Bones, and Vigor Mortis.

Yugischmoe on Toshiro's Samurai Guide - Harikiri Those Instants!

4 years ago

king-saproling Thanks for your feedback! I really like the idea of adding Slaughter in (that buyback would make it a great constant) as well as Black Market , Corpse Churn (in case Ghast gets nixed early on and I need the mana), and definitely Deserted Temple !

I looked over the others and some of them focus more on graveyard recursion of creatures in my own field (which I don't have that many). I do like the ones that pull from others' graveyards, but I'm wondering if it is better to keep Rise of the Dark Realms at 9 cmc in there versus Grave Betrayal at 7 cmc and an instant +1/+1 counter upgrade. Do you have any thoughts on that?

I'd like to try and keep this more of a budget build and have 86'd some of the crazy cards in it like Mana Crypt and such.

That Imps' Taunt is interesting, but I don't think I would need that kind of controlling feature atm. Maybe I'm wrong though! The MTG gods will tell all when I need it and wish I had it ;)

Updated the lists and brought the price down below $400. I also think it is interesting how it shows the mana curve for these cards. Many of the effects of the 4cmcs can be replaced with paying life or are less just from being a mono black deck.

king-saproling on Toshiro's Samurai Guide - Harikiri Those Instants!

4 years ago

Slaughter could be interesting since it not only triggers Toshiro, but it has buyback so you can recur it indefinitely (even if you cast it using Toshiro's ability). Imps' Taunt works in a similar way and is an interesting form of disruption for mono-black.

You might also like these: Locket of Yesterdays , Sangromancer , Revel in Riches , Black Market , K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth , Spoils of Blood , Grave Betrayal , Fated Return , Corpse Churn , Wretched Confluence , Aphotic Wisps , Cremate , Dark Dabbling , Deserted Temple

ScionsStillLive on Golgari Midrange 2020

4 years ago

If your deck was gonna be Modern I'd recommend Corpse Churn and The Eldest Reborn

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