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I'm revising my old-school Zombie deck by trying to infuse some new life into it. There are some outstanding Green and Red cards for a dual color Zombie deck but as I'm continuing my project of upgrading my old decks before I build new ones...I give you my Zombie deck.
Name: (proposed) I call this my Jean Lafitte deck after one of my favorite figures from history - Jean Lafitte. He made his base in the marshes and bayous South of my hometown of New Orleans. Certainly he's not a nice guy...but then again this IS a Black deck.
Some info on Lafitte
4x Will O' Wisp
4x Nightscape Apprentice
4x Gangrenous Zombie
4x Zombie Trailblazer
4x Zombie Master
4x Zombie Warchief
4x Dark Ritual
3x Drain Life
3x Disk
3x Phyrexian Arena
3x Dark Banishing
17x Swamp (All my Snow Covered Swamps are in here for the Gangrenous)
3x Unholy Grotto
1x Lake of the Dead
This deck works reasonably well. There's nice synergy between the Master and the Trailblazer. The Disk is a nice board cleaner but I do lose the Masters and the Arenas when it goes off.
I think I need help with the following:
1. My one-drop is currently the Will O' Wisp. This is a good one-drop as a flying regenerator but is not enhanced by either the Warchief or the Master and is effectively just a wall. Early on it's wonderful but later in the game not so much. Is there a better one-drop out there?
2. Zombie Enhancers...Master, Chief, or Lord of the Undead? I like the Master for the regen in combo with the Disk and the Swampwalk in conjunction with the Trailblazer. Lord has the great ability, however to bring Zombies back to your hand rather than the Grotto's ability to put them on top of your library.
3. Zombies...no matter how many enhancers I get I currently have only 12 Zombies now that I've pulled Sarcomancy and replaced it with the Wisp. I'd like the deck to have some longevity and while Sarcomancy and Carnophage are great for a quick start - they're both happily being dead in my Suicide Black deck - I didn't think that they fit the concept of a deck that needs to be able to play past turn 5-8.
The only way that I see to get more Zombies in is to pull the 4x Master and the 4x Cheif, add 4x Zombie of choice and reduce the number of Lord/Enhancers to 4. This is a critical decision for this deck. Opinions are so welcome that I can't even stand it.
4. Support cards: I like the 4x Ritual for this deck. I also like the 3x Disk and may up it to 4x Disk though that seems to be a bit of overkill.
The crux of the decisions in the Support area focus around balancing removal and card drawing. Is Phyrexian Arena the best idea for this deck? The other option I'm entertaining is Necropotence with Necrologia running a distant 3rd. Having to hold 5 mana until the end of a turn is not my idea of a good time.
5. Also...(now I'm reaching...) I would just LOVE to hammer Coat of Arms into this deck but I can't really get myself to cut any further.
Thanks for reading this far. Good card flopping to you all.
Name: (proposed) I call this my Jean Lafitte deck after one of my favorite figures from history - Jean Lafitte. He made his base in the marshes and bayous South of my hometown of New Orleans. Certainly he's not a nice guy...but then again this IS a Black deck.
Some info on Lafitte
4x Will O' Wisp
4x Nightscape Apprentice
4x Gangrenous Zombie
4x Zombie Trailblazer
4x Zombie Master
4x Zombie Warchief
4x Dark Ritual
3x Drain Life
3x Disk
3x Phyrexian Arena
3x Dark Banishing
17x Swamp (All my Snow Covered Swamps are in here for the Gangrenous)
3x Unholy Grotto
1x Lake of the Dead
This deck works reasonably well. There's nice synergy between the Master and the Trailblazer. The Disk is a nice board cleaner but I do lose the Masters and the Arenas when it goes off.
I think I need help with the following:
1. My one-drop is currently the Will O' Wisp. This is a good one-drop as a flying regenerator but is not enhanced by either the Warchief or the Master and is effectively just a wall. Early on it's wonderful but later in the game not so much. Is there a better one-drop out there?
2. Zombie Enhancers...Master, Chief, or Lord of the Undead? I like the Master for the regen in combo with the Disk and the Swampwalk in conjunction with the Trailblazer. Lord has the great ability, however to bring Zombies back to your hand rather than the Grotto's ability to put them on top of your library.
3. Zombies...no matter how many enhancers I get I currently have only 12 Zombies now that I've pulled Sarcomancy and replaced it with the Wisp. I'd like the deck to have some longevity and while Sarcomancy and Carnophage are great for a quick start - they're both happily being dead in my Suicide Black deck - I didn't think that they fit the concept of a deck that needs to be able to play past turn 5-8.
The only way that I see to get more Zombies in is to pull the 4x Master and the 4x Cheif, add 4x Zombie of choice and reduce the number of Lord/Enhancers to 4. This is a critical decision for this deck. Opinions are so welcome that I can't even stand it.
4. Support cards: I like the 4x Ritual for this deck. I also like the 3x Disk and may up it to 4x Disk though that seems to be a bit of overkill.
The crux of the decisions in the Support area focus around balancing removal and card drawing. Is Phyrexian Arena the best idea for this deck? The other option I'm entertaining is Necropotence with Necrologia running a distant 3rd. Having to hold 5 mana until the end of a turn is not my idea of a good time.
5. Also...(now I'm reaching...) I would just LOVE to hammer Coat of Arms into this deck but I can't really get myself to cut any further.
Thanks for reading this far. Good card flopping to you all.