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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Pauper Duel Commander | Legal |
| Pauper EDH | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Ghoulraiser
Creature — Zombie
When Ghoulraiser enters the battlefield, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
gameflips on
ZOMBIES!!!!
2 years ago
Great deck! Cheap for kitchen table magic and a perfect template for a blue/black budget zombie deck. I really like Undead Alchemist but it's weird to switch to a milling strategy if you pull him late game. I'll probably still run him for the fun of it, but do you have any other suggestions to replace him?
Also, I have a few copies of Screeching Skaab that I might replace Returned Phalanx with to make the most out of Ghoulraiser and Ghoulcaller's Chant's graveyard flexibility and to beef up Unbreathing Horde.
eyes2sky on
Representation: List of Tribal Support in Pauper
2 years ago
Zombies: Gempalm Polluter, Ghoulcaller's Chant, Ghoulflesh, Ghoulraiser, Infernal Caretaker, Marauding Boneslasher, Shepherd of Rot, Vengeful Dead
azja on
Gisa and Geralf Zombies
3 years ago
Creatures:
- cut Doomed Dissenter since it can't be recast with your commander, and there are plenty of 2/2 zombies for 2 which can
- cut Festering Mummy because in commander, most creatures will not die with a couple of -1/-1 counters. Consider keeping it if your opponents play lots of mana dorks such as Llanowar Elves
- cut Ghoulraiser, your commander casts a zombie of your choice from the graveyard anyway
- cut Liliana's Steward, targeted discard is bad in commander. You and the targeted opponent lose a card, but your other two opponents don't.
My suggestions for possible replacements are Cemetery Reaper, Cryptbreaker, Rot Hulk, Sidisi, Undead Vizier and Undead Warchief.
Sorceries:
- cut Increasing Ambition, it simply costs too much mana for the effect in my opinion
- cut Sealed Fate, it's pretty bad unless your opponent just used a Worldly Tutor or something
- cut Shamble Back, you don't want to exile your own creatures, and it's a pretty poor form of graveyard hate.
Suggestions: Demonic Tutor or the budget replacement Diabolic Tutor, Windfall, Night's Whisper, Reanimate and Buried Alive
Instants:
- cut Remove Soul, if you're paying 2 mana for a counterspell, you want it to hit more than just creatures
- cut Spell Snuff, 3 mana counterspells are too expensive
- cut Vile Rebirth for the same reason as Shamble Back
Suggestions: Cyclonic Rift, Entomb, Swan Song, Pull from Tomorrow
Artifacts:
- cut Manalith and Nyx Lotus. When you're in 2 colours, you generally don't want to pay more than 2 mana to ramp. Plus if you ramp on turn 2, you'll have 4 mana on turn 3, allowing you to cast your commander early
Suggestions: I think you're a bit low on ramp, most commander decks want 8-10 ramp pieces. Try Arcane Signet, Dimir Signet, Talisman of Dominance, Fellwar Stone, or Mind Stone.
Enchantments:
- cut Telepathy, it's not worth using a card to see your opponents hand unless you're playing something specific like maybe Sen Triplets.
Suggestions: Animate Dead, Phyrexian Arena, Rhystic Study
Lands:
- For semi-budget 2-colour deck, your mana base looks pretty good. I would just cut Skyline Cascade, having it come in tapped isn't worth it for it's effect in commander. You can probably just play a basic island in its place.
If you want to upgrade your mana base, avoid lands that come in tapped like Dimir Guildgate. A few suggestions would be Command Tower, Choked Estuary, Darkwater Catacombs, Drowned Catacomb, Tainted Isle, Underground River, Watery Grave.
I hope that was helpful! Here's a link to my The Scarab God commander deck which has a pretty similar zombie tribal theme to what you have. Take a look through it and maybe you'll find more cards that I forgot to mention. If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask!
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-08-19-scarab-god-edh/?cb=1597359288
rdean14 on Card creation challenge
3 years ago
So, black has goblins, and black doesn't really do random. It causes random discard or reveal with Hired Torturer, but otherwise, just Ghoulraiser's Zombie reanimation and Archdemon of Paliano's drawback, which I think is the only time randomness is used as a downside for black, so I feel okay using it as the "breaking" effect.
Squeaking Pie Baker (From Squeaking Pie Sneak's flavor text)
Creature - Goblin Wizard
, , Sacrifice a creature at random: Destroy target creature, create a Food token.
, Sacrifice a Food: Target player loses three life.
2/4
^that was my challenge for before, but I saw this challenge and love it!!
Similar to Ugin, the Spirit Dragon vs. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, I'd imagine Vivien's twin would be similarly creature-oriented, but very different direction. As Vivien means Alive, Morticia is a reference to death:
Morticia, Skullgrafter
Legendary Planeswalker - Morticia
Creatures you control have Undying.
+1: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
-4: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then discard a card.
-9: Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
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While Vivien makes spirit creatures, Morticia makes zombies
I'd like to see a common modal (charms, or like Charming Prince types) or split card (Adventures, Kamigawa flips, double-faced cards, etc.).
or, I may have been ninja'd again?
thirstythirstin on
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
5 years ago
You have a lot of sorceries. They're not necessarily bad, but they are taking up space where zombies could be. You can get rid of innocent blood (use fleshbag marauder instead), aether snap, twilight's call, life's finale
You don't really need vensor's journal or whispersilk cloak. You don't really have big creatures that do anything on combat damage to a player.
For instants I think tendrils of corruption, grasp of darkness, murder, go for the throat, and doom blade do well in mono black
And you got some jank creatures. What is that vulture? no. No dross hopper, no gangrenous zombies, no zombie brute, gutless ghoul is kind of crap, you have a lot of things with activated abilities and I just don't think you're going to be using them that much.
You also don't have card draw. You have a sign in blood and that's it really. Black has some good pay with life card draw cards.
You have the sanguine bond/exquisite blood combo, but your sanguine bond is completely useless. You don't gain any life except from vensor's journal and you don't have much card draw, so it's not going to do much.
Good zombie cards to add: Fleshbag Marauder (so good with mikaeus) Ghoulcaller Gisa Ghoulraiser Graf Harvest Grave Betrayal Grave Defiler Graveborn Muse Gravecrawler Infernal Caretaker josu vess Liliana's Mastery Lord of the Accursed Maalfeld Twins Necromancer's Stockpile Necromantic Selection Noosegraf Mob Open the Graves Grave Titan Liliana's Reaver Cadaver Imp Corpse Connoisseur Accursed Horde Archdemon of Unx cemetary recruitment Cryptbreaker Diregraf Colossus Doomed Dissenter Empty the Pits (is hilarious) Ever After Overseer of the Damned Plague Belcher Rakshasa Gravecaller Relentless Dead Risen Executioner Rot Hulk Shepherd of Rot Stir the Sands Zombie Infestation
I think I have some of these. You can have them if I do
vorpalaxe on
5 years ago
Yea that seems like the way. I like Ghoulraiser Fleshbag Marauder and Tattered Mummy . Gravedigger is good too. Card advantage is huge especially if you can gain life. Whip of Erebos ?
vorpalaxe on
5 years ago
Good point. Wasnt really thinking Bout 5 player ffa. How about Ghoulraiser ?