Black/ White......Zombies!?
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Posted on July 5, 2012, 8:30 p.m. by 2austin5
Hey so so far I have 4 Gravecrawler , 2 gerlaf's-messenger, 2 Restoration Angel , 2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad . What are some other Ideas for this type of deck?
Vault of the Archangel ? Cemetery Reaper is almost necessary.
July 5, 2012 8:41 p.m.
4 Lingering Souls and I've seen some lists playing a couple of Skinrender s. And you can't forget Diregraf Ghoul
July 5, 2012 8:42 p.m.
With b/w zombies, you want 3 Resto Angels and 3 Skinrenders, take out all the Sorins, you don't need them. And of course, the main reason for b/w zombies is 4x Lingering Souls.
July 5, 2012 9:08 p.m.
Sadly I have no Cemetery Reaper so that won't work but Lingering Souls is a maybe but I do like Skinrender . Ive added 2 Killing Wave and 2 Diregraf Ghoul (working with what I have
July 5, 2012 9:22 p.m.
IAmKingTony says... #7
Mortarpod is a big one here. Also 2-3 Solemn Simulacrum and a single Wurmcoil Engine . The reasoning behind these is because they can be sacrificed and you gain from it. Wurmcoil can also be an alternate win-con.
July 5, 2012 9:32 p.m.
No, you don't want any Solemn Simulacrum
4x Diregraf Ghoul
4x Gravecrawler
4x Geralf's Messenger
3x Skinrender
3x Restoration Angel
4x Lingering Souls
3x MortarPod
2x Highborn Ghoul
4x Geth's Verdict
4x Tragic Slip
Rest is lands and possibly 2 Swords or w.e you want.
July 5, 2012 9:44 p.m.
IAmKingTony says... #10
Mortarpod is basically a damaging sac engine to trigger Blood Artist . Solemn is there for two reasons.
B/W's mana base is always shaky. Sacrificing Solemn to Mortarpod gets you a land plus the ping damage, plus the Artist trigger. There's really nothing to ramp to, but the idea to get lands out so you can pump the hell out of Killing Wave .
July 5, 2012 9:54 p.m.
IAmKingTony says... #11
The thing with this deck is that you want to run very low amounts of Plains, because if your opening lands include a Plains you're not playing Messenger on T3. So Solemn is good because you can fetch them out.
July 5, 2012 9:56 p.m.
you mean sacing a solemn lets you draw a card, he grabs a land when he's played
July 5, 2012 10 p.m.
I have no solemns to add, my mana fix is Evolving Wilds
July 5, 2012 10:08 p.m.
IAmKingTony says... #14
Er yeah got it mixed up, but same idea. Moot point anyway then haha.
July 5, 2012 10:12 p.m.
You might want to consider vile Rebirth (B: exile target creature card in a graveyard, put a 2/2 black zombie token onto the battlefield.) as a sideboard option, as it's good against other zombie decks and reanimation style decks.
July 5, 2012 11:12 p.m.
You can add Blood Artist if you want, but do NOT add Killing Wave. KW is only ideal in b/uzombies because of phantasmal image, giving you potentially 8 blood artists.
July 6, 2012 5:29 a.m.
kldfjlaksdj says... #18
Actually, Killing Wave is good in all color's of Zombies and combo's well with even 1 or 2 Blood Artist . I usually keep 2 Sideboarded. Sorin, Lord of Innistrad is good if you don't run Restoration Angel otherwise your mana is really tight in B/W so playing him reliably is going to be tricky. One of the main reason's I play B/W Zombies rather than B/U or B/R is because of Oblivion Ring . I love how much control you get with it and it definitely holds the 3 slot perfectly. Some other cards to consider:
Mortarpod (already mentioned, I know)
Vile Rebirth from M13
I have a B/W Zombies list at that URL. Check it out for some ideas if you like.
July 6, 2012 2:13 p.m.
DawnsRayofLight says... #19
I pulled it off, the deck does a ton of damage fast, the real trick is trying to play around a Surgical Extraction . I actually need advice on a good 3 drop that I can get value on when I pod it. Here's the list Zambies, The Bungie Jumping Kind, first FNM run and it got 3rd. The deck is essentially a zombie pod with the strategy of pod messenger, fetch the angel, and blink the messenger. Delver seemed to be problematic for the deck, I am working on a solution for it, I appreciate any suggestions on that end as well.
2austin5 says... #2
oh and 3 Blood Artist
July 5, 2012 8:30 p.m.