Geralf's "Zombie Madness!"

Commander / EDH TheGamerTrainer

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3 different directions you can steer this deck in. —Sept. 2, 2016

1. You could go the traditional zombie way. About the only cards to support creatures are creatures with transmute so that they end up in the graveyard for you to use with zombies that require exiling creatures from the graveyard along with Rooftop Storm to cast zombies for free and Nim Deathmantle and Dreams of the Dead so that you could reanimate creatures in your graveyard for free (You need to color hack Dreams of the dead first with Glammerdye first and then you would want to use Deadeye Navigator to blink your reanimated creatures so that you don't need to pay for their cumulative upkeep.

2. The second method is rather simple. You use graveyard hate to control the game; there's about 5 blue cards that actually exile from the graveyard as well as traditional artifact graveyard hate. You could use some old cards like Bazaar of Wonders, Grip of Amnesia, Lost in Thought and Web of Inertia that do some sort of graveyard exiling. (HINT- Bazaar of Wonders works wonders with Spy Kit ((pun intended)- and there's one card that you might want to try to see to "help" because Spellweaver Volute allows you to potentially eat up cards from their graveyards whenever you cast a sorcery. Lost in thought is like a white arrest btw and if your opponent wants to attack, block or use the enchanted creatures abilities they would need to exile 3 cards from their graveyard. I think this card is the best of the 3 btw. Grip of Amnesia is a counterspell that counters that spell unless they decided to exile their entire graveyard. Web of Intertia is basically like a Propaganda except for 2 things. You can tell if they want to swing at you because at the beginning of their combat, they need to exile one card from their graveyard and for the fact that they need a graveyard in order to swing at you in the first place. And lastly Mist of Stagnation skips each players untap step and has an untap trigger at the beginning of that players upkeep where X are the number of X cards in his or her graveyard. This card is actually amazing for this kind of graveyard hate strategy and completely screws with players who use cards like Stasis because with this card they actually get to untap permanents- assuming they have a graveyard.

So with this direction you could focus on graveyard hate along with whatever other strategy you have. In other words you could make a Geralf "Stax" kind of a deck with this.

1. Focus on creature reanimation. With cards like Nim Deathmantle, Dreams of the Dead and Eldrazi Monument you could keep your creatures safe and to reanimate those that just died or to bring up an emergency blocker for when you need one. Lastly just make sure you use something like Deadeye Navigator to erase the cumulative upkeep that dreams of the dead tacks onto the reanimated creature (oh and don't forget to color hack it too).

2. Not really a 4th direction but you could also use cards like Oona's Grace that have retrace to play off the graveyard so that no matter what you mill you ALWAYS have something you can interact with in your graveyard.