The Swampening™ (Zombie Trailblazer pdh)

Pauper EDH Mono-Black

Jerenstein-Bear

Creature (31)

• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Cyclopean Giant
• 1x Diregraf Horde
• 1x Festering Goblin
• 1x Festering Mummy
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Ghoulraiser
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Physician
• 1x Gurmag Angler
• 1x Hunted Ghoul
• 1x Infectious Horror
• 1x Jarl of the Forsaken
• 1x Lazotep Reaver
• 1x Lurching Rotbeast
• 1x Maggot Carrier
• 1x Morkrut Behemoth
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Servant of Tymaret
• 1x Shambling Ghast
• 1x Shambling Goblin
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Tattered Mummy
• 1x Terrus Wurm
• 1x Twisted Abomination
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Zombie Cannibal

Instant (15)

• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dash Hopes
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Mirrodin Avenged
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Raise the Draugr
• 1x Rotten Reunion
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vile Rebirth
• 1x Village Rites

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Contaminated Ground
• 1x Evil Presence
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Tainted Well
• 1x Tortured Existence

Land (35)

• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 33x Swamp
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Cemetery Recruitment
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Crawl from the Cellar
• 1x Drain Life
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Chant
• 1x Gruesome Fate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Shamble Back
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Unearth

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Trial list for a mono-B zombie control deck. The idea is pretty simple: get a bunch of zombies on the field and tap them during the opponent's turn to change their lands into swamps. Dual? Swamp. Command tower? Swamp. Everything is a swamp now. Multi-color decks are especially easy to cripple with this because you can target their most needed lands. A couple sub-themes:

• The deck is heavy in creature removal which makes it easy to sweep up the creatures that actually do manage to get cast through The Swampening™.

• There are a few ways to permanently turn opponent lands into swamps (Contaminated Ground, Tainted Well, etc). Not only does this invalidate multi-color lands (especially if they're not in black) but it gives us a permanent in-road for the couple big hitters in the deck. Tapping one zombie to give them swampwalk is easier than doing two to create a swamp and then add swampwalk.

• Recursion. The commander is pretty important to the deck and we're zombies so there are PUH-LENTY of ways to get creatures back from the GY. This also helps keep the friendly side of the battlefield stocked with fodder for further swampening (Cemetery Recruitment, Unearth, etc).

• Along with the large creatures using swampwalk to get damage in there are a few ways to hit for big damage to finish things up late game (Corrupt, Consume Spirit, etc).

Date added	10 months
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.42
Tokens	Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	NEXT DECK(s)