Smash my zombies

Casual* Budget Mono-Black Zombie

Foulcher

Creature (22)

• 3x Accursed Centaur
• 3x Cabal Interrogator
• 3x Festering Goblin
• 3x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 2x Nantuko Husk
• 4x Shepherd of Rot
• 3x Vengeful Dead

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Decree of Pain
• 3x Duress
• 2x Sign in Blood
• 1x Skulltap

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Necropotence

Instant (6)

• 3x Dark Ritual
• 3x Vile Rebirth

Land (22)

• 3x Reliquary Tower
• 19x Swamp

---

Hello,

I introduce you my new zombie deck based strictly on cards I own. I am a returning player from mostly the onslaught/mirrodin era and have always been a casual player (I also have some M13 cards I never played and played DOTP games on steam). I would like so to gather some pieces of advices on better cards to build my strategy. I have two cards at spot : Infest and Endless Ranks of the Dead but since I do not own them, I prefer not to include them because I have not tested them.

Main strategy

So my deck is not strictly tribal since my strategy is more about smashing my zombies and taking advantage of their number to inflict indirect damage twice :

• when they are on board through Shepherd of Rot and Gempalm Polluter
• when they leave the board though Vengeful Dead (source of damage) + Nantuko Husk or Decree of Pain ( I agree this card is not the best there, very expensive for its cycling which is the kill...so drawing is useless and the main part is too expensive, I would be dead before)

Handling threats

The main threats I can face are instants.rituals to kill my cards or to a board wipe? That is why I played mainly discard cards like Cabal Interrogator (which is more useful late game) and Duress (more powerful). I made the choice not to handle creatures, maybe I am wrong ?

Acceleration

As my deck is made of cheap cards, Dark Ritual can be used for many purpose because I need a lot of cheap cards. The micro-"combo" Festering Goblin + Accursed Centaur + Vile Rebirth might be useful and puts two 2/2 zombies on board while eventually trigerring a -1 life.

Side notes

It is important to keep at most 2/2 cards since the final board wipe will use cheap cards like Infest or Echoing Decay if I have Endless Ranks of the Dead . That is why I do not have any zombie warchief or equivalent.

The reason I have many draw cards was to play Ghastly Remains but now I see this card is not viable even with a lot of draw.

I would like not to invest loards of money on this deck since I play occasinally. I can buy some 15 dollars cards and if I like it but generally max 10 dollars cards are ok.

Thanks a lot

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Rares 6 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.55
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B