Looking to make my all-zombie deck more effective
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Posted on Oct. 13, 2016, 3:26 p.m. by dopeland
Hey all!
I'm looking to beef up my deck so I can dominate at my friend's next modern tournament. Can you help suggest some new cards to better my strategy? Perhaps even a better strategy with the cards I currently have?
Zombies has some really powerful Lords in Modern. You get Undead Warchief, Lord of the Undead, Death Baron, Risen Executioner, Diregraf Captain, and even Phantasmal Image so you can copy lords/creatures with undying.
You basically stall your opponent or lay the groundwork with Gravecrawlers, then from turn 3 forward your creatures are going to just keep growing.
Compelling Deterrence is going to be the most powerful bounce spell you can get, because it's basically Recoil for less mana.
Izu_Korasu says... #2
Prized Amalgam is a free creature every time undying, relentless dead/gravecrawler come back from teh grave. (and is a 3/3 for 3)
Diregraf Captain is a fun addition (lord +death drain)
and while modern manabases are usually expensive (fetchlands, shocks etc) you may find adding even a few dual lands in place of some islands (say Drowned Catacomb or a shock/Darkslick Shores or two) will give you the blue fixing without having to sacrifice black (or speed) and devotion is useful for mono-colored decks with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx.
while a bit gimmicky Scarscale Ritual helps your creatures abuse undying a bit longer and lets you draw cards (for hybrid mana)
Unsubstantiate may fit better here then Unsummon as it can bounce spells, delaying threats for a turn or two while you overwhelm the board (Mana Leak/Spell Pierce are other options) and Rise from the Tides feels like an odd fit when you have Empty the Pits, Corpseweft and Endless Ranks of the Dead as options for token swarms that are more effective/larger then the average rise/tides cast in the deck.
and black has more then enough control, Dash Hopes, Extirpate and Graf Harvest help you limit there options, and while its a weird card Smallpox can actually be quite useful against specific decks and put them in a Painful Quandary.
Undead Alchemist is also a fun alternate wincon.
October 13, 2016 9:55 p.m. Edited.