The ol' Zombie Mill

Modern*

Tharian

Creature (16)

• 3x Black Cat
• 2x Cemetery Reaper
• 3x Diregraf Captain
• 4x Diregraf Ghoul
• 4x Undead Alchemist

Land (22)

• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Island
• 3x Nephalia Drownyard
• 2x Shimmering Grotto
• 6x Swamp

Artifact (3)

• 3x Trepanation Blade

Instant (11)

• 3x Doom Blade
• 2x Dream Twist
• 3x Go for the Throat
• 3x Thought Scour

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Chill of Foreboding
• 2x Distress
• 2x Increasing Confusion
• 2x Silent Departure

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This deck revolves around Undead Alchemist's ability. The idea here is to build up some respectable zombie forces with Cemetery Reaper and Diregraf Captain then, drop a turn 4 Undead Alchemist and start milling for zombies.

At this point use Increasing Confusion , Trepanation Blade, Thought Scour and Chill of Foreboding to thin out your opponent's deck while creating zombies in the process.

I've added a couple Artful Dodge in order to make sure that at least some damage can get through after Undead Alchemist is out. If you can't hit your opponent you wont be making any zombies and the whole thing grinds to a halt. I tried to round out the rest of the deck with direct opponent milling cards in order to avoid this.

Silent Departure on the alchemist when your zombie army is big enough to wipe out your opposition or, to move something nasty out of the way so you can get your zombie damage through for token creation.

This is still in the concept phase so any comments on how to better refine this strategy are greatly appreciated!

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.02
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B