Wayward Servant

Creature — Zombie

Whenever another Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Discussion (49)

multimedia on Varina

2 months ago

Hey, have more confidence in your deck building because this is a fine start on a low budget if it's your second deck.

You already have Wonder which is good since it's the card I suggest the most that players add with Varina. My advice is focus more on Zombies and cards that can support Zombie tribal. More Zombies, less nonZombie creatures.

Budget cards all less than $1 each to consider adding:

• Lord of the Accursed
• Wayward Servant
• Etchings of the Chosen
• Midnight Reaper
• Carrion Feeder
• Silversmote Ghoul
• Changeling Outcast: Changelings are Zombies.
• Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant
• Tormod, the Desecrator
• Eternal Taskmaster
• Tomebound Lich
• Binding Mummy
• Corpse Knight

Amass is an effect that creates a Zombie token.

• Gleaming Overseer
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Vizier of the Scorpion
• Lazotep Plating
• Lazotep Reaver

Consider more cards that require you use life because Varina is a life gaining engine with Zombies.

• Caves of Koilos
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Command the Dreadhorde
• Feed the Swarm
• Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• Read the Bones
• Dire Tactics

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Next step is to add 35 more lands to have a manabase to playtest. Get a temporary manabase in place with basic lands to see how many spots you have left to fill with nonland cards or how many nonland cards to cut. Make sure that basic Swamps are the most lands because you need black mana the most with Zombies.

Some budget lands $1-$2 or less each to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Unclaimed Territory
• Path of Ancestry
• Exotic Orchard
• Arcane Sanctum
• Caves of Koilos
• Sunken Hollow: Island for Wonder.
• Prairie Stream: Island for Wonder.
• Ice Tunnel: Island for Wonder.
• Irrigated Farmland: Island for Wonder.
• Tainted Field
• Esper Panorama
• Ash Barrens
• Evolving Wilds
• Witch's Cottage

Good luck with your deck.

MindAblaze on (Kaldheim) Mystic Reflection uses

2 months ago

Wayward Servant w/Army of the Damned?

meilers on Varina, Queen of the zombie apocalypse

5 months ago

Have you also thought about Necromancer's Covenant? That enchantment seems like a cool way to abuse what sounds like a heavy creature deck in your meta. It would give you a good amount of tokens late game which has synergy with Corpse Knight and Wayward Servant. It would also give all your zombies lifelink which could help offset some of the damage, especially from some of the crazy damage The Ur-Dragon can dish out (he is also in my meta).

Not sure how you feel on some removal, but Imprisoned in the Moon and Oubliette can take care of some pesky commanders for a while, and Teferi's Protection can be a save for when someone is about to win.

SynergyBuild on Black/white Zombie

6 months ago

Love it a ton!

Wayward Servant I think could fit well!

Valengeta on Modern rally

8 months ago

Deck looks good! Personally I would switch out 1x Zombie Infestation for another Village Rites as it helps you find your key pieces. You can even take 2x Infestation out for Rites and another Unearth as well because you might not have a Corpse Knight or Wayward Servant in play and you will need those to use Rally the Ancestors, since you won't be able to attack with reanimated creatures

zAzen7977 on Unholy Frenzy

9 months ago

Hey Valengeta, nice job! I like your build and write up.

Here are some suggestions that you may like - first of all, Nantuko Husk is a great way to sac zombies. It’s expensive as compared to the Carrion Feeder, but it can block. I’ve found that not being able to block with 1 drops can be tough. Cryptbreaker and Stitcher's Supplier are options, the former generates zombies for you. Or you could run both Feeder and Husk for extra sac’ing.

Also, this deck could benefit from a splash of white. With 4-8 fetchlands plus a couple of Godless Shrine, plus an Isolated Chapel or two, you can run Tidehollow Sculler, Wayward Servant, and Path to Exile, plus artifact/enchantment hate in the sideboard. Otherwise, you may have a hard time against those match ups :)

Swilliam on Life, Death, and Zombies

11 months ago

So I've done a little more testing and I found a couple of potentially useful cards for you. Final Payment is removal without any drawbacks if you sacrifice Stitcher's Supplier and you can use it to fill your graveyard. Paying five life is not the worst either depending on how much you can gain off of Wayward Servant. Mire Triton might be negligible considering the copies of Liliana, but for those on a budget it could have a home. In addition, including these could possibly help make room for cards that boost all of you zombies considering the large amount you can get from Diregraf Colossus. I probably jumped the gun a little bit with recommending the Rotting Regisaur earlier, but it inspired me to test out a green/black zombies deck with Lotleth Troll, Slitherhead, Dread Wanderer, etc. It seemed to work out alright.

verse2wo on Undead Horde

1 year ago

Wayward Servant Get some life for all those zombies dropping.