Shambling Ghast

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Brawl 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
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

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 ", Sacrifice this: Gain one mana of any colour.

wallisface on Budget Zombies help!

2 months 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).

Barbarian_Sun_Pope on Dungeons of madness

3 months ago

Yeah Cemetery Gatekeeper is definitely the odd one out here since he doesn't enable anything. Big Game Hunter or Shambling Ghast could be a decent replacement. The hunter is additional removal for anything that might be bigger than your bigger creatures and the Ghast could offset the land lost from the second room in the Tomb.

nlidmaster on Mono-black zomboys

4 months ago

This deck looks really solid! One of my close friends has been running a blue and black zombie deck for a while. I think your deck would benefit a lot from Cryptbreaker. Can generate zombies and card draw. Foulmire Knight is also a solid option.

As much as I love Grave Titan, depending on how fast/competitive you want this deck to be, he is going to slow you down a lot. I think Diregraf Colossus could be a strong replacement.

Lord of the Accursed can also be a game winning zombie lord. Although Consume Spirit adds to the lifegain idea, you still need at least three mana to cast it, and even then its not doing much work for you. Murderous Rider can not only serve as removal, but is alternatively a zombie with lifelink.

Cards I'd take out to replace with the ones I receommended would be Consume Spirit, Grave Titan, Graf Harvest, Headless Rider, and Shambling Ghast.

These of course are personal suggestions, you do what makes you happy!

Blackgate on Innistrad: Corpse Cobblers (Dimir Decayed)

4 months ago

Hello zapyourtumor thank you for the suggestions. Replacing Shambling Ghast with Cryptbreaker could work. What would you suggest removing for your other two suggestions?

Niko9 on Braids, just.. Braids..

7 months ago

I really like the use of Eradicator Valkyrie I've definitely had games where it has run away with things and people are like, what is that card : )

And I'm not sure if any of these would help, but here are a few that I've found useful in a sac deck.

Mishra's Factory because sometimes you just need one more body to clear their board : ) But you do need a lot of black for you creatures, so I'm not sure if it would work.

Deadly Dispute is just such good value and it's one of the best spells to cast on their end step.

Nether Traitor is great fuel for sacs, and with a couple on the board can really add up damage.

Shambling Ghast goes so well with effects like Braids, Arisen Nightmare The ghast can sometimes effectively double your removal.

But your list looks pretty solid as is, I just figured to throw out a few things that have worked for me : ) Looks awesome!

TheOfficialCreator on Korvold, Treasure Eater

7 months ago

Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge, Impulsive Pilferer, and Shambling Ghast seem like decent additions. I'm also surprised not to see the fetchlands in this deck (heck, given the added value from Korvold it might be worth it to run off-color fetches like Marsh Flats), and if you do add the fetches then Elvish Reclaimer and Crop Rotation would perform incredibly well.

Happy trails! Korvold is one of my favorite commanders >:)

wallisface on budget token sac

8 months ago

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