2
Carrion Rats
3 Carrion Wurm
4 Crypt Creeper
2 Famished Ghoul
4 Withered Wretch
2 Zombie Cannibal
2 Chainer's Edict
2 Duress
1 Engineered Plaque
4 Fade from Memory
4 Gravestorm
1 Mutilate
2 Patriarch's Bidding
3 Smother
4
Barren Moor
20 Swamp |
 Shallow
Grave.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
The graveyard. It's a Zombie's natural environment: its birthplace,
its home, its cafeteria. So why are they always trying to tear it apart?
Hey, if you were a smelly, goopy, flesh-dripping corpse (and I'm not
judging you if you are), you'd probably carry some self-hatred too.
Plenty of Odyssey Zombies practice picking through the trash: Zombie
Cannibal, Crypt Creeper, and Famished Ghoul can all slurp cards out of
an someone's graveyard. But they're nothing compared to Withered Wretch,
the new king of graveyard denial. Since it quickly and cheaply liquefies
your opponent's 'yard, it combos very nicely with a few other cards. The
Wretch{Withered Wretch} turns Carrion Wurm into a 5-mana 6/5 Zombie with
no drawback whatsoever. Even better, it pairs up with the neglected
Odyssey rare Gravestorm to let you draw two cards a turn. With a BB and
a BBB mana cost at the heart of the deck, monoblack is clearly the way
to go. Here's one way to use that engine without investing in too many
other rare cards.
I think that's a pretty good start to my tenure here: a cross-block
combo between an uncommon utility card and a, shall we say,
less-than-celebrated rare. If only there were another combo out there
that fit the theme… if I could dig it out from wherever it's buried, all
that remains… hey! That's right, Buried Alive and Ghastly Remains go
together like peanut butter and marshmallow. It's an awful combo, but
how can you resist? Sure, fancy-schmancy graveyard recursion decks use
Oversold Cemetery (admittedly, one of my favorite cards in the current
environment) and high-quality creatures you can use over and over again
like Krosan Tusker. But where's the challenge in building a deck out of
good cards? Anyone can do that.
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