Lands:
2 Phyrexian Tower
2 Volrath's Stronghold
4 Badlands
4 Blood Crypt
4 Dragonskull Summit
6 Swamp
Creatures:
4 Carrion Feeder
2 Festering Goblin
2 Shepherd of Rot
2 Withered Wretch
4 Death Baron
3 Lord of the Undead
1 Cemetary Reaper
4 Gempalm Polluter
4 Deathbringer Thoctar
Other Spells:
4 Dark Ritual
2 Zombie Infestation
2 Deadapult
4 Tombstone Stairwell |
  Death
Brought by Zombie Thoctar.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
It's a zombie theme and combo deck. In fact
the only cards not not have the word zombie on them somewhere are the
lands and Dark Ritual. Though, seriously, how can you even have a zombie
without some sort of dark ritual?
Phyrexian Tower fulfills half of the Legendary
requirement. The mana ability will allow you to stock your graveyard for
the Stairwell and to feed the Thoctar, while giving you mana to play the
next victim.
Volrath's Stronghold fulfills the second half of the Legendary
requirement. Recursion is always nice, allowing you to sacrifice
something again, but if you target the Polluter you can really smile.
Carrion Feeder is here to get creatures from the
battlefied into the grave, to feed the Thoctar, and to be a legitimate
threat after feeding on the grave bound Tombspawn tokens from the
Stairwell.
Festering Goblin is around to be fodder, and to extend the reach of a
single creature sacrifice to a 2 toughness target.
Shepherd of Rot will be a source of direct damage that can be exploited
with the Tombspawn tokens. You can manipulate the number of zombies down
if needed using Deadapult and Carrion Feeder.
Withered Wretch can be used as a way to weed out creatures from your
opponents grave, making the Stairwell even more one-sided.
Death Baron will boost all of your Tombspawn tokens for the direct
approach, turn your Thoctar into a machine gun, and give your suprise
zombie tokens added oomph.
Lord of the Undead performs alot of the same functions as the Death
Baron, but will recycle needed creatures and allow you to recycle your
Gempalm Polluter.
Cemetery Reaper, again, does the same as the other two lords, but will
also do the job of a combination Withered Witch and Zombie Infestation.
Gempalm Polluter will deal silly amounts of damage for you while giving
you a new card at the same time. You can target them for recursion and
use them all over.
Deathbringer Thoctar is the center of the deck, you feed it with the
Carrion Feeder and Deadapult, and once the Stairwell hits you get a
counter for every Tombspawn token at the end of each turn.
Dark Ritual is used to either accelerate into the
Thoctar or extend the Staircase an extra turn.
Zombie Infestation will allow you to turn unneeded cards in hand into
zombies that can be sacrificed or counted towards damage totals. If you
have the Death Baron in play, you can drop 2/2 deathtouch blockers at
instant speed.
Deadapult is another zombie-centric damage machine, it can be used early
to move creature cards from the battlefield to the grave, and later to
recycle Tombspawn tokens that are bound for the grave anyways.
Tombstone Stairwell is a card I love. All of the zombies marching in and
out of the graveyard is just what the witch doctor ordered for the
Deathbringer Thoctar. Without the Thoctar the zombies can go aggro with
all the lord effects, or be used as fodder for the Deadapult.
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