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This deck started out as an exercise using Skirsdag High Priest with lots of cheap easily-sacked and recyclable creatures, but ended up as a pretty cool zombie deck. Being able to pump out 5/5 flying Demons is sort of a bonus at this point.With such a low mana requirement, I am leaning towards dropping to only 18 lands.I have often found myself flooded with Swamps and nothing to cast. Going to try swapping in either two Plague Belchers or two additional Cemetery Recruitment.
Through either a creature's own death, or death to sacrifice, this deck benefits when something dies. Carrion Feeder gets pumped when we feed it, which is the easiest way to provide the death requirement for the High Priest. We can also gain serious card advantage by sacrificing our zombies to Altar's Reap. Gravecrawler will always come back to play unless it is exiled, and Supernatural Stamina serves as a pseudo-regenerate that will still allow the various death effects to trigger. Since things will regularly be dying, Tragic Slip is a bit of extremely powerful removal.On top of all the zombie tricks, remember that all we need to do after something dies (anything dies, does not have to be our own) is tap two of our cheap, disposable creatures and the High Priest creates a flying 5/5, and it doesn't even have to be our turn to do this since they are activated abilities. That flying Demon will be ready to fight as soon as it becomes our turn again.
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I like it! I think it would be beneficial to have a few more creatures (2-3) to ensure you will have enough to tap. I agree with taking out a land or two and maybe one Alter's Reap. Also, adding zombies with effects that enter the battlefield will work well if you are planning on bringing them from your graveyard to your hand, then you can utilize the effect more than once :) Check out Fleshbag marauder, Ghoulraiser & Plague Belcher
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Good suggestions. This was thrown together pretty quick so there are probably a lot of good cheap zombies I overlooked.
I would suggest you put in festering mummy instead of festering goblin. You put a -1 -1 counter on target creature that way it's not just until end of turn.
Worth noting that Carrion Feeder is your only card making this deck not Modern legal. I gotta second the Festering Mummy as it's a Zombie, has the same cost, and the effect persists.
I have a few decks like this that have a card or two making it not modern legal. The very few times I must conform to legality I do swap them out for other cards. 99% of my play is just fun and casual.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Festering Mummy was completely overlooked, and now that I see it I agree completely!
If you want to go quite expensive, i like geralf's messenger, it dies twice dealing 4 damage to opponent, and returning it to hand gets alot of value.
+1At last a deck with a description!Geralf's Messenger is a great card for zombie sacrifice decks. He can be sacrificed twice thanks to his undying and has a solid ETB effect. Drawback is that it's an expensive card in relation to the rest of your deck. Fleshbag Marauder is a removal on legs but has the same cost drawback as the Messenger. Smallpox can a very interesting tough sometimes dangerous cards. The advantage is that it attacks ALL ressources: Life, handcards, creatures and manabase. The drawback is that it does this to your opponentn and to you. If you want some additional removal for the sideboard Bone Splinters could be of interest. I'm also using Sylvok Lifestaff there to gain some life against aggressive decks. The only thing I don't like about this deck, and thats more a personal thing, is Carrion Feeder. Not because he's not effective but because it's the only card that messes up a modern legality. Someday you might want to take this deck to a modern tournament and cant because of a single card. If you want to replace it then you might want to take a look at the following cards: Plagued Rusalka, Viscera Seer, Bloodthrone Vampire or Disciple of Griselbrand.
Thank you for the comments. Since 99% of my play is casual, I tend to focus on cheap and fun cards. I do try to keep some substitute cards on hand for the times when I must conform to format rules, though I do try to stick to modern format as much as I can. Carrion Feeder is just to much fun here to give up. :-) I will look at your suggestions for substitute cards for him though. As you can see from my other decks, I only slip out of modern when there is a particular card I just really, really want to use.
I agree with the addition of bone splinter's in the deck, a couple swapped in for shamble back, I can see many possibilities of your opponent not having any creatures in his/her graveyard if that is the case you will end up exiling your own creatures which has negative synergy with Ghoulcaller's chant and cemetery recruitment. Edit: And Gravecrawler. Edit: Plus you can just use Supernatural stamina before a sac.
I do really like Bone Splinters, and it would have better utility here over the other removal I normally use.
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I like how cheap the deck is. nice work! this is my idea of zombies... https://www.mtgvault.com/lemeurtre/decks/zombie-skeleton-knights/
I threw together a pauper option for this. Seems like it would have a good chance of overwhelming an oponent.https://www.mtgvault.com/andarious/decks/pauper-zombie-sacrifice/
needs more juice.. imo if you're gonna use counters why not make it infect? zombie infect would be interesting...
It's Pauper, so there's that.
I would opt for more creatures that leave creatures when they die as opposed to ones that do so little as cause the opponent to lose 2 life or give something a -1/-1 counter