The Necrophage

Modern* Warzin

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better late then never update —Aug. 16, 2013

updated to replace Victim of Night with Far / Away.

Pithing Needle in sideboard vs AEtherling/planeswalkers and Scavenging Ooze.

Lifebane Zombie in sideboard for an intimidate beater who reveals their hand.

Gonna test on cockatrice how it fairs in the current standard.

zzxyyzx says... #1

The thing about Rooftop Storm is that it's a dead card if you get it in your opening hand, and you have to sit and wait until T6 to get it online. Perhaps some sort of green mana ramp such as Farseek to get the combo out sooner?

April 27, 2013 5:27 a.m.

Warzin says... #2

This deck's strength is that it can win in multiple ways. Rooftop Storm combo might be the coolest way to win but usualy you will win due to Killing Wave . the thing with Farseek is that i only run 8 green mana sources and i have to sacrifice a turn where i could play removal to get my Gravecrawler 's trough/some extra Gravecrawler 's or a Blood Artist .

I might consider running 1 less Rooftop Storm though but with 1 in the deck wich i can't tutor like the creatures it tends to show up to little.

but yeah i've had games with it being dead in hand for the first 6-10 turns.

April 27, 2013 5:47 a.m.

tigersfan774 says... #3

Sweet deck. My Forsaken Horde deck is really similar. I think there's probably more useful things than garruk you can put in here. Maybe mainboard another couple abrupt decays or some bone splinters. They work well as another sac outlet and easy kill card.

May 4, 2013 4:56 p.m.

Warzin says... #4

although there have been situations where i needed more removal. Garruk can be used as a lightning bolt, a tutor, a token generator or a defensive token generator. with Altar's Reap it's increadable to have those tokens in cases where you lack the creatures or would have to sac something you need. and the tutoring wins me games. thanks for the comment though:)

May 4, 2013 8:49 p.m.

Relak_Eagleyes says... #5

Very cool deck. Plays well. +1

May 14, 2013 3:23 a.m.

jph1234 says... #6

I would mainboard Lotleth Troll it's an incredibly powerful card and Varolz, the Scar-Striped is also really good +1

May 14, 2013 6:49 p.m.

jph1234 says... #7

also I don't really like Rooftop Storm it's too expensive and you don't really have expensive zombies

May 14, 2013 6:52 p.m.

Warzin says... #8

you missed the part of infinite combo with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born and Gravecrawler wich happens often enough to get a spot in here. but i could make a sideboard change into more beatdown instead of combo with varolz and lotleth. not entirly sure how though

May 15, 2013 5:47 a.m.

tigersfan774 says... #9

I'm curious how often you find Rooftop Storm to be useful. If you remember I have that similar deck to this and I just actually took them out because I found that by turn 6 I usually had the game practically won or had lost. I also find Abrupt Decay to be incredibly useful (it kills Silverblade Paladin , Boros Reckoner , Vampire Nighthawk , and countless other threats plus is great and stalling aggro) and think it might help if you try running more than 1 mainboard.

May 27, 2013 8:20 a.m.

Warzin says... #10

The biggest problem with Abrupt Decay is that I don't always have a green source available turn 2-3. But yeah it removes tons of stuff and Putrefy takes care of the rest.

I might replace one Victim of Night with another mainboard Abrupt Decay . although the main threats that i can't remove with victim. I can't remove with abrupt decay either (Huntmaster of the Fells  Flip and Olivia Voldaren ).

about the Rooftop Storm though, it tends to win me about 25% of the games I win. I could remove both grimgrin and rooftop for Varolz, the Scar-Striped and some more removal to replace them, but honestly I just like Grimgrin, Corpse-Born .

May 31, 2013 7:47 p.m.