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Those Who Serve
Creature — Zombie
plakjekaas on Crypt Stalker
2 years ago
It's nice in mechanics, design, but the flavor text couldn't be more off. Just look at the text on Sparring Mummy or Those Who Serve. Zombies on Amonkhet, especially the white ones, are substitutes for normal people so that the normal people can train for the Trials. The Trials turned out to be selections for the most powerful warriors to be zombified and coated with Lazotep, so that they could cross the Planar Bridge (which could not transport living matter) to fight in the War of the Spark. Zombies created from Trials winners are blue/black ( Spellweaver Eternal / Lazotep Reaver). If you failed the Trials, you'd get mummified into a servant ( Those Who Serve). But death was always the end of your Trials.
Hyperalgialysis on
Mono white zombie aggro
6 years ago
Drop Oketra's Avenger and Bishop's Soldier and Those Who Serve
jon.grimes893 on
Of Life and Death - Zombie Deck
6 years ago
18 Lands is absurdly low, even for aggro decks. You'll want 22-24 in a aggro/midrange deck like this.
As far as under performing cards, I recommend removing God-Pharaoh's Faithful, Those Who Serve, Unraveling Mummy, and all of the artifacts in the deck. To a lesser extent, Lord of the Accursed typically under performs, unless the first one lives through the turn and you can drop a second one right after.
I suggest adding 4 Dread Wanderer, 2 more Plague Belchers, 2 more Binding Mummies. Also, 4 Liliana's Mastery is too good to pass up. After the first resolves, it puts down 6/6 worth of stats and pumps all your other zombies as well. If you play a second one, it adds 8/8 worth of stats to the board and your other zombies have +2/+2.
filthyc4sual on
Gamebita Mono Red Deck
6 years ago
Cut Mountains for the Ramunap Ruins and some combination of mountains and plains for the Inspiring Vantage
Cut Forsake the Worldly for Lightning Strike
Cut Aether Chaser, Giant Spectacle, Wrangle and Sacred Cat for Rigging Runner and Bomat Courier
Cut Desert Cerodon, Manticore of the Gauntlet, Hyena Pack and Those Who Serve for Hazoret the Fervent and Glorybringer
Athraithe on
Black White Artifact Deck
6 years ago
Fleetfeather sandals isnt worth it, gorgons head is a worse version of Basilisk Collar because its missing lifelink, you dont have enough zombies to make binding mummy worth it, rimebound wont be online too much due to you have 1 snow covered land, and a few other things too that should be cut. I see this is supposed to be a budget control deck but there are still plenty of better zombies for cheap that are better than Those Who Serve.
Epochalyptik on What if WotC had gone …
6 years ago
A lot of what people don't understand in that respect is that sets are designed for the Limited environment, where cards that might be unplayable in Constructed can shine. Those Who Serve is perfectly playable in draft or sealed, even though it would never see the light of day in any constructed format.
There's an adage: "if everyone is special, no one is." The nature of deck construction requires that you eventually have to settle on only a few good cards. Whether you get there by disposing of a thousand chaff cards or a thousand semi-chaff cards is irrelevant; you still reach a point at which you've identified the cards that are just better than the alternatives for one reason or another.
Not every card will be good in every format. Some cards may even be bad in every format, but even they serve a purpose: they test a player's judgment in Limited. If every card is playable or exists at a largely homogenized power level, you degrade the game's learning curve and the complexity of the experience it offers.
Stephencliffe on
White Black Zombies Post Rotation
6 years ago
Cool deck! If you watched any of the pro tour last weekend, you already know that zombies crushed it. This might seem like a bit of a copout, but look at the top eight decklists of the PT. You'll get some really good ideas.
Off the top of my head, here are some things that I would cut/add to the deck.
Cut: Those Who Serve, Gravedigger, Fan Bearer (maybe sideboard it), Gideon and Liliana, Start/Finish, Never//Return, Harsh Scrutiny and one or two Binding Mummy. I know this sounds like a lot, but there are plenty of cards to take their place.
Add: Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Dread Wanderer, Cryptbreaker, Diregraf Colossus (this card gets insane), Dark Salvation, Anguished Unmaking, Liliana's Mastery, and perhaps Transgress the Mind. The pros weren't playing transgress in their mainboards, but 2 copies might be nice.
I know that this changes the deck a ton, I'm just going off of what the pros did. I do like that you have Plague Belcher, that's one that didn't see much play, but I think it's perfect in this deck.
I hope this was at least a little helpful, good luck!
