A carefully curated collection of cartilaginous corpses and cadavers is the backbone of this deck. Each rotting carcass comes replete with built in recursion, oftentimes at little or no cost.
This, my friends, is how zombies are meant to be played.
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Gravecrawler
is as perfect a one drop as we could ever ask for. Make no mistake; we’ll be seeing this creature again and again and again.
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Bloodghast
wrought havoc with my OCD. I desperately wish it was a Vampire Zombie or else a Zombie Spirit, but alas it’s the wedge breaking up a perfect tribal build. Aside from that superficial discrepancy, it fits in perfectly with our theme of recursion. When in doubt, use
Bloodghast
to attack or as a sacrificial offering. Chances are it’ll manage to make its way back to the battlefield the very next turn.
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Relentless Dead
is relentless indeed. Depending on how we’re situated for mana, on death this little guy can return itself to our hand and/or a different zombie of our choosing from our graveyard to the battlefield. Be mindful of opportunities to return
Skaab Ruinator
to play; this outmaneuvers the downside of casting it through traditional means.
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Geralf's Messenger
deals damage as an ETB trigger, and can come back even stronger after it dies. Once it dies for good, simply cast
Unearth
to repeat the process anew.
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Prized Amalgam
has oodles of fellow creatures to ensure it keeps coming back for more. Being able to continuously loop a 3/3 for a one time investment of is a steal.
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Skaab Ruinator
is our major threat. We run a full 4 copies because a creature as fearsome as a 5/6 flyer is a big Exile magnet. Best to sneak one in quickly to bait the opponent; if it’s Path’d then at least you’ll have 3 in reserve, and if it’s Push’d then remember—we run
Unearth
. Play a Turn 1
Thoughtseize
of yourself into a Turn 2
Unearth
and field this behemoth faster than expected, bypassing the ‘exile 3 creature cards’ additional cost. If it manages to stick, then next turn you can commence aerial bombardment.
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Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
is an alternate finisher that can be slotted in from the sideboard to spice things up. Between all the different ways to bring stuff out of the graveyard, think nothing of sacrificing the whole lot en masse to buff Grimgrin and attack, if an opening presents itself.
