Gravecrawler, The Sac'd Cat That Keeps Coming Back

Casual Mono-Black Reanimator Zombie

Karzald

Instant (5)

• 3x Altar's Reap
• 2x Foul Renewal

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Consuming Vapors
• 2x Reprocess

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Attrition
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 3x Grave Pact

Artifact (2)

• 2x Skullclamp

Creature (22)

• 2x Apprentice Necromancer
• 4x Geralf's Messenger
• 2x Gnawing Zombie
• 2x Grave Titan
• 4x Gravecrawler
• 1x It That Betrays
• 2x Lord of the Undead
• 3x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 2x Smothering Abomination

Land (22)

• 2x Dakmor Salvage
• 3x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 2x Phyrexian Tower
• 2x Polluted Delta
• 11x Swamp
• 2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 2x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Vampiric Rites

Creature (1)

• 1x Butcher Ghoul

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SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!!!

Hey everyone, I realized that if I tweak my Zombie deck a little, I could make it into a really mean sacrifice engine, so that's what I'm going to try here. Main engine will be Attrition + Gravecrawler or any other sacrifice effect (Altar's Reap, Phyrexian Tower , Reprocess ) using Grave Pact to add insult to injury.

The Crawler is basically the main sacrifice fodder since it keeps coming back from the graveyard, but other nice combos include using an Apprentice Necromancer to pop back a Geralf's Messenger from the graveyard, which was sacrificed to Ghoulcaller Gisa's ability after it attacked. With a Grave Pact in play, this amounts to an opponent sacrificing 3 creatures (Messenger gets sac'ed, Apprentice dies to bring the Messenger back, then Messenger dies again due to Apprentice's ability), taking 8 damage (4 from the Messenger's attack assuming it gets through, and 4 more from him hitting the battlefield twice) and you gaining 4 2/2 Zombie tokens. This can be repeated every turn if you also have a Lord of the Undead in play to resurrect the Apprentice Necromancer (who's errata text states he is a zombie). It certainly takes a while for this to get going, but hopefully the Gravecralwers and Messengers kept up good pressure early in the game to slow down the opponent's board.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 3 Mythic Rares 35 - 1 Rares 6 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	62
Avg. CMC	3.33
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Need to Compr
Based on	Zombies! Karzald CAS