Shambling Ghast

Creature — Zombie

When this dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield), choose one —

• Brave the Stench — Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Search the Body — Create a Treasure token. *(It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this: Gain one mana of any colour.

Tokens

• Treasure

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

Niko9 on Golgari commander deck Opinions

4 months ago

I have a G/B 60 card sac deck, and here are a few things that have been really good in that deck. Not sure if all will work for yours, but figured I'd throw out a few cards : )

Crashing Drawbridge I love giving big pay off creatures haste and if you don't need it then it's a sac target.

Eradicator Valkyrie Hits each opponent for a sac and can snowball by itself

Nether Traitor the sac you can always sac : )

Neverwinter Dryad is another tribe elder kinda

Storrev, Devkarin Lich is pretty great

Deadly Dispute such a great value engine and works awesome with things like Shambling Ghast

Tragic Slip is one of the best 1for1 removal spells in a deck where things are consistently dying around the table

Braids, Arisen Nightmare can be a very strong value engine

Rankle, Master of Pranks hits with haste early and can really shape the table

Bitterblossom can create a good stream of tokens to sac

TheOfficialCreator on Rakdos I play your deck

5 months ago

Laughing Jasper Flint would excel in your gameplan, and Grim Initiate or Shambling Ghast would be good 1-drops.

Professor Onyx stands out as not being great for the gameplan, I highly recommend Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools. Great sack outlet with great card draw, AND steals your opponent's commanders. In that same vein, Brainstealer Dragon.

wallisface on Zombies of the Westvale Abbey

11 months ago

Your deck is lacking any real form of interaction… letting your opponent just do what they want is a really dangerous place to be! As both Read the Bones and Fog aren’t really doing anything for you here, i’d replace them both with killspells like Fatal Push Abrupt Decay, Assassin's Trophy, and/or Infernal Grasp.

Without any real graveyard shenanigans, Gravecrawler isn’t great here, and you’re probably better off with something like Shambling Ghast to provide some chump-blocking and potential ramp/removal.

Apollo_Paladin on Mono Black Control (MTGA Deck

11 months ago

An interesting take on "Mono-Black Rock" here. Lots of staples splashed with plenty of card advantage options.

I'm not a fan of the Orcish Bowmasters ever since they were nerfed on Arena - kind of the same with The One Ring (but at least the Ring is always useful). Late-game bowmasters are just dreck to draw so I've phased them out myself, maybe look at doing the same? Even a common like Shambling Ghast can fill the bowmasters role in being able to take out a 2-toughness attacker, except that you have the option of creating mana for a future turn when it dies unlike the bowmasters which are (especially nerfed) a lot more situational. You have plenty of other card draw options here where dropping them for some mana ramp to get off one of your 4 or 5-mana spells early seems like a good idea for improving consistency.

In any case, +1 just for seeing another Arena player on here. Feel free to add me on Arena if you ever want to talk deck tech or run some test games. Info is on my profile -- good luck!

Masterful on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

1 year ago

KingMinjo91 | Greedy Freebooter is pretty similar to Shambling Ghast which I had in previous versions of the deck. Personally, I like making creature tokens or the card draw from Market Gnome more than a treasure. Usually the creature ends up being equivalent to card draw or more value while the treasure only has limited synergy in the deck. I could experiment more with these types of cards in the future though!

Foster_I_Am | Roaming Throne is a phat 4/4 with ward which is nice, but I don't think we have enough creature-type synergy to take advantage of it over other more powerful 4-drops. I can see naming human or vampire and getting a good amount of value on certain boards, but I also see it being completely useless in some situations. If you feel like testing it let me know the results!

jdogz32 on

1 year ago

DreadKhan might be a good way to get creatures in my discard too. Might add that along with Shambling Ghast

Rivel on

1 year ago

For those interested, here is the list of removed cards, added cards, as well as total current deck stats.

Removed

1. 6 Island
2. 6 Swamp
3. Dreadhorde Invasion
4. Liliana, Death's Majesty
5. Dispel
6. Drown in Dreams
7. Negate
8. Plumb the Forbidden
9. Reality Shift
10. Resculpt
11. Unwind
12. Exsanguinate
13. Final Parting
14. Ghouls' Night Out
15. Charcoal Diamond
16. Sky Diamond
17. Gleaming Overseer
18. Hordewing Skaab
19. Undead Alchemist

Added:

1. Evolving Wilds
2. Exotic Orchard
3. Malakir Mire  ^Flip
4. Mystic Sanctuary
5. Obscura Storefront
6. Reflecting Pool
7. Secluded Courtyard
8. Terramorphic Expanse
9. Unclaimed Territory
10. Verdant Catacombs
11. Vesuva
12. Mystic Remora
13. An Offer You Can't Refuse
14. Blue Sun's Zenith
15. Pongify
16. Rapid Hybridization
17. Read the Bones
18. Bident of Thassa
19. Dimir Signet
20. Fellwar Stone
21. Herald's Horn
22. Pyre of Heroes
23. Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
24. Urza's Incubator
25. Champion of the Perished
26. Fell Stinger
27. Liliana's Standard Bearer
28. Murderous Rider
29. Shambling Ghast

Misc deck stats: Ramp: 13 Draw: 19 Tutors: 4

wallisface on Budget Zombies help!

1 year ago

Some thoughts:

• your mana curve looks fairly steep, in that you’re running a TON of 3-mana cards. Having soo much weight on such a high mana cost will lead to the deck running very slowly/clumsily, as you’ll often only be able to do one thing per turn. I’d suggest removing some of these 3-drops and finding room for the 1-mana zombies: Carrion Feeder, Gravecrawler, Champion of the Perished, and maybe Shambling Ghast or Cryptbreaker. Those first 3 cards mentioned form the backbone of most zombie decks.

• your lands are going to make it really unwieldy trying to run 2 colours. Personally i’d suggest just going mono-black to give you better consistency.

• 20 lands is too few to be playing any high-mana cards - i’d suggest ditching all the cards costing 4-or-more mana, and limiting the number of 3-mana cards you run to 8.

• depending on how “budget” you budget is, you may like this list here - it’s $100 but very strong, and went 5-0 at a mtgo modern league, beating $1000 decks (further down the page he also lists a $50 version, which looks pretty decent for the cost also).