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Lands:
11 Forest
4 Overgrown Tomb
1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
8 Swamp
Creatures:
3 Plague Boiler
4 Dark Confidant
2 Gleancrawler
4 Golgari Guildmage
2 Grave-Shell Scarab
4 Shambling Shell
2 Vulturous Zombie
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Elves of Deep Shadow
Other Spells:
2 Last Gasp
1 Vigor Mortis
4 Putrefy |
  Livin'
on the Edge.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
The innermost mystery of these lords of
compost is their ability to coax life – or more accurately, power – from
death with the dredge mechanic. Instead of drawing a card, you can
return a card in your graveyard with the dredge keyword to your hand by
milling a number of cards off the top of your library equal to its
dredge number. This lets the Golgari reuse utility cards like our
number-10 card Necroplasm and Nightmare Void. For 3B, the Void has
dredge 2 and lets you look at the opponent’s hand and force him to
discard a card.
Many dredge cards are particularly synergistic. The
five-cost Golgari Grave-Troll has power and toughness equal to the number
of creatures in your graveyard, but its own dredge of 6 can increase that
number. Likewise, Life from the Loam returns three lands from your
graveyard to your hand, and its dredge 3 is likely to bury more lands.
Recollect, a 2G sorcery that returns a card from your graveyard to your
hand, and Vigor Mortis, which returns a creature from your graveyard to
play with a +1/+1 counter for 2GG, also work well with the Golgari’s
signature mechanic.
But the Golgari also excel at creating life, and
creatures like the Grave-Troll, Dark Confidant and Gleancrawler – a 6/6
trample for six that returns any creature cards put into your graveyard
during your turn to your hand at the end of the turn – are all part of the
guild’s armies. In general, though, the Golgari are at their best when
they’re dying.
This deck brings all the horror and death of a Golgari
Rot Farm to your gaming table. |
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