The Hellbringer

Pioneer* BRGW Competitive Zombie

TheDuggernaught

Land (21)

• 3x Arid Mesa
• 3x Blood Crypt
• 3x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Dunes of the Dead
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 2x Marsh Flats
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Creature (25)

• 4x Bloodghast
• 4x Gravecrawler
• 4x Greater Gargadon
• 4x Insolent Neonate
• 4x Rotting Rats
• 4x Viscera Seer
• 1x Worldspine Wurm

Instant (4)

• 4x Path to Exile

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Faithless Looting

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Bridge from Below

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Nahiri, the Harbinger

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Sideboard

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Slaughter Games

Artifact (1)

• 1x Engineered Explosives

Instant (2)

• 2x Wear / Tear

Creature (2)

• 2x Fulminator Mage

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Leyline of the Void

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A Midrange Pseudo-Dredge/Aristocrats list that abuses exile effects to help control the board while churning out zombies with Bridge from Below. The engines are below.

Discard

Faithless Looting: Being able to draw and then discard is huge when digging for a Bridge from Below or other enabler.

Insolent Neonate: The order in which you do things is what makes this so good. First you discard, then you sacrifice. This is important as it allows you to pitch a Bridge from Below, and then sacrifice him -- giving you a token and a draw.

Sacrifice

Viscera Seer: Scry and instant speed sacrifice. Can help you dig for a bridge if you do not have one and acts as a body to turn into zombie chow.

Greater Gargadon: This baby is almost impossible to interact with -- making it the preferred sac outlet. He is also a win con in his own right.

Recurring Creatures

Bloodghast: Can come back at instant speed with fetchlands. Thats pretty neat.

Gravecrawler: 1. Sacrifice it to get a zombie. 2. Play it again. 3. ???. 4. Profit.

The above cards are what make the deck tick. But there are lots of cards that act as further support.

Control

Path to Exile: Exile something -- don't kill it. Important for Bridge from Below.

Anger of the Gods: Exile lots of things -- don't kill them. Important for Bridge from Below.

Secret Sauce

Nahiri, the Harbinger: Can discard Bridge from Below, exiles stuff (doesn't kill) with her -2, and then auto wins the game with her ult and...

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: If hordes of zombies and inter-dimensional astro-mammoths do not kill your opponent, Emmy will. The downside of this card is if you for some reason have to discard it -- it shuffles your graveyard -- which is bad news. I have toyed with Worldspine Wurm as a replacement that does not shuffle the entire graveyard, and it has worked okay.

I have played with the idea of dropping the secret sauce for more discard (Haunted Dead?) and sacrifice outlets. But I am not sure yet as they can certainly win games when people side in hate or if games go long because all you drew was all 3 copies of Anger of the Gods. Let me know what you think!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 13 Rares 1 - 2 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Decks, Modern Decks