Killing the Undead v2

by powndak on 29 April 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (7)


Instants (3)

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Deck Description

New version of the Black Sacrifice deck.

*Which card would be better than Viscera Seer? Would Festering Goblin be better because it is a zombie and essentially a Mogg Fanatic?*

*Advice on better cards would really help, I want to make this deck as best as possible*

How to Play

So the changes I made we're:

+4 Liliana of the Veil
+3 Viscera Seer
+2 Blood Scrivener

+2 Swamp

Swamps --> Had trouble getting the needed mana out. Around 2/6 games I would have like 1 mana on turn 3. It didn't really flow to well, but that's just luck so I'm not saying that the original is bad. It's probably better than this one, but that was my experience.

-1 Skullclamp
-3 Fume Spitter
-2 Buried Alive
-4 Demonic Appetite
-2 Blood Artist

Added:

First of all, Liliana of the Veil, great card in mono black for hand removal. I played the original Black Sacrifice deck (credit to surewhynot) against my brother many times and found that it was tough to get two zombies out to actually combo off the gravecrawlers. Also the 18 lands didn't work for me and sometimes I would only have 1 swamp by Turn 3. So I felt that removing cards from an opponents hands as early as Turn 1 (Dark Ritual followed by Liliana) would benefit me a lot because I could actually get to the point where my zombies aren't susceptible to removal. Also, just like Grave Pact, I can destroy an Arbor Elf or any 1 cost threat on Turn 1, yeah it's lucky to get both cards in my first hand, but it's a possibility just like every other combo in the deck.

Viscera Seer, great card to look for the cards you need. He is replacing the 4x Demonic Appetite's in the original deck. I felt like those Demonic Appetite's didn't do much for me because i had trouble getting two Gravecrawlers out without one of them dying, so I would be put into the situation where I would have to sacrifice the creature that has the enchantement on it, or essentially lose the game. I'm not sure if this is a good card, so please let me know which 1 costs would be better, I was searching for cards and came across Will-o'-the-wisp and was really happy, but then I found out that I can't play Demonic Appetite on it and regenerate it every upkeep to sacrifice it, and keeping it on the battlefield.

Blood Scrivener, oh man, this card is just reckless in mono black aggro. On Turn 4, You can already start drawing two cards every turn, sure he can get killed through removal or burn spells, but it doesn't really matter, because all your other strong aggro cards are out. The last thing that made me want this card that much more was that it's a zombie. Two more zombies really helps because my Gravecrawler's chance of becoming a machine gun heightens.

*Fume Spitter wasn't so good anymore because the new rulings changed. Before, you attack, use Fume Spitter's ability, then the damage would be dealt, killing a 2/2. Now you can't do that, so I didn't like him because you can't sac him with other creature's abilities such as Bloodthrone Vampire to get two abilities out of sacrificing (sacrificing Fume Spitter with Bloodthrone to give Bloodthrone +2/+2 and putting a -1/-1 counter on another creature does not work)*



Deck Tags

  • Black
  • Aggro
  • Zombie
  • Sacrifice
  • black sacrifice

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Killing the Undead v2

Why Verdant Catacombs? 20 swamps is the same thing minus life loss lol

Also... Doomed Necromancer would be filthy in here. Especially if you have one in your graveyard already, continuous sacrifice without actually losing anything

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Posted 01 May 2013 at 04:52

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the verdant catacombs are for bloodghast recursions.
i can attack with him one turn, trade for a 3/2 they own. next turn play a verdant catacombs (if they have 10 or less life hit with haste) and then when he dies, i pay 1 life and throw the verdant catacombs out to play ANOTHER land and he comes back. It also thins out the deck so i can get more creatures out.

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Posted 01 May 2013 at 21:45

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oh gotcha, makes sense now lol

didn't like the Doomed Necromancer idea?

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Posted 01 May 2013 at 21:51

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i didn't really understand it to be honest, i lose him to bring back another card?
i mean, gravecrawler does this for 1 mana, i felt as if it was a little slow.
tell me how it would fit into the deck though, im all ears :P
any suggestions on 1 costs better than Viscera Seer?

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Posted 01 May 2013 at 23:22

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incase you want something you sacrificed back. or you want to feed mortician or ulamog by using two of them, one to sacrifice and bring the other back. I guess its not that helpful, I thought it would be at first lol

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Posted 03 May 2013 at 05:45

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yeah, it really isn't. maybe if it was cheaper, but still.. thanks for giving some ideas =)
today i wiped my opponentsboard (he was mono white) had 7 creatures out, i had 4. made him sacrifice all of his creatures, and hit him with a 37/37 bloodthrone vampire on like turn 7.

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Posted 03 May 2013 at 05:48

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