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Nice!! I wish this was real :’(

Great job! I’m also not a fan of the party mechanic, but I feel like you took it to another level thematically. Plus it seems balanced and fun to play.

What if there was a Zombie commander who could protect my zombies both in life and death, and also allowed me to cast Zombies from my graveyard?

Zev synergizes with the other Zombies I created recently, Bonegorger Colossus, Flesh Mimic, and Corpse Centipede. My goal is to eventually put together a Zombie-themed custom precon focusing on self-mill and graveyard manipulation.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

Hey Tzefick, check it out, I changed the card so that it is no longer enchanting a player. What do you think?

MrNoodlesworth, how’s it going? How are you liking Sedgemoor Witch ?

Hey Nyrmak, dealing with lots of Planeswalkers is tricky, my playgroup runs very few. Profet93 is right, Murderous Rider and Hero's Downfall are the best options, and The Elderspell is an option too, but only shines when your Liliana is in play. I would also target the Superfriends player really hard with discard spells, to preempt the casting of Planeswalkers. Once one hits the board, you’ll be racing against the clock to remove it.

I run Duress because first and foremost, I need cheap efficient discard spells to trigger Tinybones, and there are very few options. Duress gives me information to help plan future turns. It discards a non-creature card, so it covers a gap that my anti-creature tech goes not reach ( Tainted AEther , etc). If I could run two Thoughtseize I would, but this is second best next to Inquisition of Kozilek , (which doesn’t help with high mana value cards). It also discards Planeswalkers. If I trigger a counterspell so I can’t discard an important card, that’s an added plus as well! Another option is Divest for a creature-heavy meta.

Thanks for your comment Tzefick! You bring up a really good point about creatures being unable to enchant permanents, I missed that. I’ll play around with it so it will work better mechanically.

Hey Tzefick, do I really need to make life gain worse? Yes! ;)

You haven’t played against my wife’s modern angel/cleric lifegain decks...it’s scary how much life she gains with Bishop of Wings and Righteous Valkyrie ... O_o

Nice job Mtg_Mega_Nerds! Seems like a fun artifact-combo commander. The art and ability really feel like Ashnod. I think the restriction which only allows you to sac artifacts is enough to keep the ability balanced and from being too similar to Ashnod's Altar . But I’m sure there are some infinite combos out there that this card could abuse, with the right set-up hehe

Great!

The more I think about, the more powerful I realize this card is - Krenko is pretty much a Goblin Reconnaissance plus Fervor with the added benefit of artifact destruction, plus with the other side of the card you can always generate goblin tokens, and you generate more as the game goes on. You could pull off lots of shenanigans with this guy. Very cool!

I like it! Seems like a blast to play, literally lol

I see what you’re going for with Krenko’s ability - I propose one of the following changes:

“During combat after blockers are declared, you may remove any number of attacking Goblins you control from combat. If you do, destroy up to one artifact the defending player controls with mana value less than or equal to the number of Goblins you removed from combat in this way.”

Or -

“During combat after blockers are declared, you may remove any number of attacking Goblins you control from combat. If you do, destroy up to one artifact the defending player controls with mana value less than or equal to the total power of the Goblins you removed from combat in this way.”

What do you think?

Good point Tzefick, I’m all for making Vexxus a Zombie Knight Wizard. It’s a shame that Mtg.design doesn’t let me modify the size of the text in the card type box, or I’d change it.

And there are definitely several angles one could take when deck building with Vexxus, either as commander or as backup for Nekusar, Nath of the Gilt-Leaf , Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip, or another discard-oriented commander. It would be lots of fun to use Vexxus in a build which punishes my opponents for drawing cards, while also using discard effects to amass a horde of zombie tokens.

Thanks for the suggestion Mcat1999! I’ll take your advice - I upped the Colossus’ casting cost and toughness. Now it’s harder to remove and will stick around to mill my library longer.

When I started making custom cards, at first I was just having fun memorializing random ideas. But now that you mention it, I think I will try to keep going with the zombie self-mill and graveyard recursion theme and make a custom precon! I’ll cook up a wicked commander in your honor, hehe :)

Good point Omniscience_is_life, you’re right that it’s too easy to go infinite with the way it is currently printed. I changed the last clause to make it trigger only when targeted by an opponent’s spell or ability. Thanks!

Here’s another Zombie inspired by Stitcher's Supplier to synergize with Corpse Centipede and Flesh Mimic:

(Edited: Increased casting cost and toughness, and changed last clause to mill only when target by opponents’ spells or abilities)

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

Thanks Omniscience_is_life! I learned something new about wording spells with X values.

I updated the card with the new text.

Thanks for commenting everyone!

My logic in making Flesh Mimic only one mana is based on the following:

Reanimate costs only one mana, can target any creature card in any graveyard, and causes me to lose life equal to the reanimated creature’s mana value.

Flesh Mimic can only be cast from my graveyard (so it has to get there somehow), targets a Zombie in my graveyard only, then it exiles the target (preventing me from targeting the same Zombie again), and I have to pay life equal to its mana value. So I figured the Flesh Mimic was strong, but not too strong for 1 mana, since essentially it’s a weaker Reanimate spell I have to cast from my graveyard. In an EDH setting, there’d be no reason to run this over Reanimate, unless I specifically was running self-mill and Zombies. With a dedicated self-mill build, this card has more value since my graveyard essentially becomes my hand.

Although Flesh Mimic may be too strong for Modern, the threat of graveyard-hate is ever-present ( Rest in Peace , etc.), which completely neutralizes Flesh Mimic.

Although Maskwood Nexus would be a boost because it turns everything into a Zombie, I don’t see how it would change the analysis above regarding Reanimate, but I could be wrong.

Does this make sense? I could also bump up its mana cost to UB.

Nice job! I think the balance is great and it would be a blast to play with!

Ah, I think I see what you mean Omniscience_is_life about the X value and the stack, although I’m no expert - how about the following change, based on the language of Genesis Hydra :

“When you cast ~, you may search your library for a Zombie creature card with mana value less than or equal to X and put it into your graveyard. If you do, you lose X life and ~ enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.”

I think this wording doesn’t request the value for X after the spell has resolved - what are your thoughts?

I was inspired by Body Double to create a Zombie-specific shapeshifter which complements the Corpse Centipede:

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

I’m glad you all like it!! It’s nice to know I’m not the only twisted one around here ;)

The art is awesome, I believe it is of a “manipede” from the Lovecraftian Xbox360/PS3 game Slaughterhouse. I found it on Pinterest under Lewis Erickson. I’m not sure if he is the original artist.

Omniscience_is_life, how would you clean up the wording? The first clause is identical to Haakon, Stromgald Scourge , but I had a bit of trouble with the second clause.