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This Mortal Coils.

Description of deck by it's author (quoted):
Y'know what other race likes taking frequent trips to the graveyard? Zombies. (That wasn't a trick question.) There are a couple of black enchantments that make amazing combos with Lightning Coils. One is Death Pit Offering, one of my favorite Nemesis cards that I was pleased to see pop up again in Eighth Edition. The drawback isn't so bad when you'll get further use out of the creatures you tossed into the Death Pit, and aren't 5/3 hasty Elementals better than 3/1 hasty Elementals? The other enchantment is Death Match. (Basically, any enchantment that starts with “Death” is automatically cool.) If you and your opponent are knocking off each other's creatures all game, you'll eventually get the upper hand via Lightning Coils counters, as well as via recursion-friendly cards like Oversold Cemetery and Reaping the Graves. And imagine the annihilation wrought by your wave of Elemental tokens! Blockers? What blockers? Those enchantments work well together: When your 2/2 creatures are really 4/4 creatures, your opponent can't easily Death Match them away.

Self-recursive creatures fit nicely in this deck. Aphetto Vulture can keep coming back, Rotlung Reanimator will leave a buddy behind when it croaks, and Doomed Necromancer can pull a friend back into the fray. All of these interact nefariously with Death Match, and the Rotlung-Offering interaction is superb. Ghastly Remains is especially evil: Just don't bother to amplify it! When it comes into play as a 0/0 creature (assuming the Offering isn't on the table), it will trigger Death Match's ability, then it will immediately die, triggering Lighting Coils' ability. And you can regrow it for more fun every single turn.

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by Mark Gottlieb @ www.magicthegathering.com

GRAVEYARD TRIX: Lightning Coils