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The Timmy in me loves Rooftop Storm so much!

That's the deck theme! Not exactly exotic (no shortage of Dimir zombie decks out there) but Mono-black zombies isn't as fun to build. I love the inclusion of Blue to add more utility and variety. My goal is to have an aggro deck that can slide into a Rooftop Storm-combo when necessary/available. Not going full combo, as many Gisa and Geralf decks tend to do.


The original idea for this deck was a heavy mill theme (self and opponent) and lots of cards that take advantage of other peoples' graveyards--cards like Fated Return, Ashen Powder, Sepulchral Primordial, Puppeteer Clique, Chainer, Dementia Master, Consuming Aberration, etc. After much soul-searching I felt that it didn't take advantage of Gisa and Geralf as much as I thought (compared to just a bit of self-mill). I also felt that having too much opponent-mill and reanimation cards diluted the actual zombie-tribal aspect. Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Teneb, the Harvester, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, Wrexial, the Risen Deep, and especially Lazav, Dimir Mastermind do "opponent's graveyard" sooo much better. After all, the goal of this deck is supposed to be Rooftop Storm and "true" zombie tribal.

I used to have almost all the self-mill zombies (Laboratory Brute, etc.) but they kept getting bumped for clearly-superior zombies. I still think they're good in a more budgeted Gisa and Geralf deck. It's a shame though, as I wanted to include as many blue zombies and I could.


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Cards with an SL are cards I own. Cards with an MP are potential cuts. Cards with an HP are proxies.

Audited 3/2/25

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The last reported update was August of 2020! I have made a lot of unrecorded alterations to the deck since--especially after the Midnight Hunt commander precon dropped. I did a big update today, so I fully redid the decklist.

I didn't record what I took out, but here is what I think the new cards and the "new" cards are:

Arcane Signet - Undercity Sewers (pulled in my prerelease! Perfect deck for it) - Oubliette - Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver - Prophet of the Scarab - Midnight Reaper - Cleaver Skaab - Death Baron - Hordewing Skaab (picked it up way before the price spike!) - Champion of the Perished (still unsure about this one, but the EDHREC percentage is just so high I gotta try it) - Headless Rider - Acererak the Archlich - Make an Example - Feed the Swarm - Final Act - Diresight - Fell the Profane  Flip - Infernal Grasp - Hostile Negotiations

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(1 week ago)

+1 Midgar, City of Mako maybe