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| Arena | Legal |
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| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
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| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
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| Pauper | Legal |
| Pauper Duel Commander | Legal |
| Pauper EDH | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Shambling Ghast
Creature — Zombie
When this dies, 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: Add one mana of any colour.
SaberTech on
Varina: Unalive in 2025
3 months ago
Well, I'll try picking some options to cut from different points in your curve so that I don't mess with the balance you are trying to go for too much.
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Changeling Outcast I don't think that this one is really worth it. It is an early drop that can net you some value off of Varina if attacks don't look great but I think that I would prefer to see a mana rock over that in my starting hand pretty much every time.
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Champion of the Perished, Shambling Ghast, and Lazotep Reaver are also pretty low value options that I would prefer to be a mana rock in my opening hand but they at least have a bit of potential scaling value. The Champion could get big enough to pressure opponents a bit even though it doesn't have trample, and both the Ghast and Reaver could potentially do something late game with the Liliana, Untouched By Death combo line. Still, I would consider any of those three to be cuttable for other stuff.
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Relentless Dead I think that this card is too mana hungry. Varina's card filtering lets the deck be pretty consistent in finding cards that it wants to cast, so it's a waste to leave mana untapped just so that you can make use of Relentless Dead's abilities if it dies. You have other ways of getting creatures back in the deck, and I think that Zul Ashur, Lich Lord already fills the role better.
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Headless Rider Preferably, you don't want to be trading away your utility zombies in combat if you can help it so the Rider becomes more of a backup to get some value if an opponent uses removal than a way of getting ahead on board. It can produce infinite tokens off of some of the decks combos, I'll give it that, but on its own it is trying to compete with Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, which can also combo and draw you cards. If you are looking for an alternative to it, I've actually been very impressed with Geralf, the Fleshwright in my own list. Geralf also combos and his ability to pump your zombies can get pretty nuts.
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Priest of the Crossing is a card that I'm just uncertain of. It's more a suggestion to just watch how this card performs for you in practice to see if it's worth it. I think that how well it fits will come down to play style.
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Noxious Ghoul and Temmet, Naktamun's Will kind of play a similar role in the deck, but from different angles. They both ultimately make your creatures harder to block. The Ghoul removes creatures, synergizes well with cards like Cryptcaller Chariot, and can fit in with some of your combos. It's dependent on other cards working well for it to do more than clear some small creatures each turn though. Temmet is a better body for your mana and his looting effect helps to fuel both itself and other cards in the deck. With other cards in the deck like On Wings of Gold, Zombie Master, or Death Baron that also make it harder for the opponent to block you could decide which of them ends up doing more for you overall after some testing.
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Land Tax is a card that I like in my own deck but what I mainly use it for is a way to put a bunch of cards in my hand to loot away for something better. I don't put too much emphasis on it as a way to mana fix. With only 6 basics in your deck you only get a couple shots with it, but considering that it is only 1 mana that still could be enough value for what you spend. Just something to keep your eye on.
Niko9 on Golgari commander deck Opinions
10 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
DeinoStinkus on
Rakdos I play your deck
11 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
1 year 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
1 year 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