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I'm not sure what you are facing. If you are going blue/black, you could consider more Diregraf captain. Also, while it has a high mana cost, maybe Rotcrown Ghoul in combo with Undead Alchemist. They won't want to block/kill it while Undead Alchemist is around. Skinrender also comes in very handy. I also like Thought Scour with Undead Alchemist. Gives a bit of draw power and can create zombies. Call to the Grave is another decent card in most Zombie decks.

There are a lot of blue zombies for standard. Geralf's Mindcrusher should also work with Undead Alchemist, but the casting cost is high. Scrapeskin Drake might help against flyers. You could always go with Rooftop Storm to reduce casting costs, but Rooftop Storm is fairly expensive to cast.

Made a few changes, let me know what you think. I feel like I need more removal, but I am going up against a lot of Prot: Black and Indestructible Angels. I should just quit playing Black, but I love me some Zombies.

WOTC did a great job with the Zombies. They have so many abilities overall.

I like the changes. 4 Undead Alchemists. Very nice.

Maybe drop 1 swamp and 1 thought scour and add two trepanation blades to mill with your Highborn Ghouls.

Good luck.

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As this actually's a mill deck once u get Undead Alchemist on the table u might consider adding some speed into the deck to build that zombie army of yours as fast and strong as possible.

Therefore add some blue mill instants or sorceries, instead of Army of the damned (totally unecessary at the point when u have a dozen or more zombies out there with the help of Undead Alchemist). U already have Thought sour which is nice, but consider Mind sculpt and or dream twist to mill your opponent with 2 mana.

U dont really need killing wave or Akroma's memorial (despite being a cool card) when you wanna gain speed and overpower your enemy.

I made a similar deck not too long ago if u wanna compare

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=356920

mine depends heavily, although not completely on Bloodchief's ascension, but I might also turn this into standard now that Mind sculpt came.

More changes made. Removed the expensive Token sorcery. Added more cheap mill spells.

Here is a somewhat similiar deck for comparison/ideas as well. I used Modern lands for the build because they are cheaper. You could try to run standard legal, but its much harder without dual lands. I really like using Diabolic Tutor to grab Call to the Grave.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=366742

Im pretty set on it being standard legal. And since there are only three months until the set shift, I don't plan on investing in any of the sets that are about to go away.

Some rotation safe cards are:

Rooftop Storm
Trepanation Blade
Undead Alchemist
Geralf's Mindcrusher
Black Cat
Diregraf Captain
Rotcrown Ghoul
Butcher Ghoul
Ghoulraiser

You already have a good idea as to some blue mill cards to add.

Rooftop storm is too expensive for this build, but I have a play set at home and am planning on reworking another deck that is very mana costly.

I've put in two Trepanation Blades.

Alchemist, Mindcrusher and Rotcrown are all in this deck.

The other cards in the list don't work for here, but are in most other Zombie decks I build.