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I was trying to make a combo with Blood Artist and Zulaport cuthroat to sac creatures repeatedly for the life gain/damage, I chose a whole bunch of 1/1's that would die, rez as a 0/0 with persist and then die again to get another trigger from the two.
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I was looking for some suggestions to help the deck play better/smoother. I feel like it's still too janky to be perfect
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Endless Ranks of the Dead 50% more zombies every turn.also you may want to swap some of you creatures for zombies.and possibly Grimoire of the Dead...
+1A great keyword to use with persist would be undying. When a creature with both undying and persist dies both abilities will trigger. Since you control both triggers you choose what order they resolve it. Whichever one resolves first will return the creature to the battlefield with the appropriate counter. The other trigger won't do anything when it resolves. So you're able to sacrifice a singe creature 3 times per turn! Good creatures with this keyword would be Butcher Ghoul, Geralf's Messenger, Demonlord of Ashmouth or Undying Evil if you prefer an instant spell. Mortician Beetle is a faster version of Bloodflow Connoisseur. Viscera Seer could be an option to get in your hand what you need in this deck. Altar's Reap would provide some additional carddraw. Tragic Slip is one of my favourite removals when you play sacrifice decks as there are not many creatures that can withstand a -13/-13 spell. Depending on your budget Grave Pact could be a real matchwinner. GreetingsMuktol
Thanks a ton for the help! I was wondering what you would suggest removing to make way for tragic slip/undying evil? I also really like butcher ghoul, though i'm not sure what to take out for it
A balancing problem I see at the moment is that enough cards that let you sacrifice creatures remain in the deck with enough cards to get something to sacrifice. Vampiric Rites could be a solution to this problem (I would remove Altar's Reap and add 3-4 of it). Basically a weaker version Altar's Reap but it allows you to do this repeatedly and is an enchantment which is a card rather hard to remove. Cards I don't really like in this deck would be Thrull Parasite and Army of the Damned. The Thrull's Extort works only 1 time per casted spell and the counter-removal might be to slow. The Army is simply to expensive to play, even with Crypt Ghast as you will need the mana to cast Cauldron Haze or use Bontu the Glorified's ability, return Reassembling Skeleton and so on. So I would remove those 4 cards (Thrull and Army) to add 4 Undying Evil and sideboard Tragic Slip. Another thing that just came to my mind is that Persist/ Undying won't work with the token (or any other token) created by Pawn of Ulamog. The token is sacrificed, dies (thus trigger's Blood Artist/ Zulaport Cutthroat) but it never makes it actually to the graveyard, which is a requirement for those two ability's to trigger. A Death Cultist (or Bile Urchin) can be sacrificed 2 times and dies a third time per turn when used with undying and persist. When you need a small blocker just use undying to give you a 2/2 and sacrifice him after blocking something.
Don't forget trespassers curse as well is blood artist in enchantment form
your deck and mine are similar:http://www.mtgvault.com/jimreload/decks/more-blood-more-blood/
Vampires as well as Zombies seems pretty made for this kind of deck, however, Vampires have day one build in sacrifice mechanic with Bloodghast, Viscera Seer and Kalastria Highborn utilized with a lot of fetchlands. This may be very expensive in money.It feels as you have too much combo pieces in your deck and too less control elements that may lead to your deck feeling janky
I've been trying to use immortal servitude in my vampire version of this. Cauldron haze is much better but you need free sac outlets.The reason aristocrats worked so well was the splash of white. Doomed traveler, cartel aristocrat, return to the ranks etc.Viscera seer is a must. Bloodthrone vampire and aristocrat are good options. Nantuko husk if u don't want to go with vampires.I always try to add pawn of ulamog but it always gets cut from my decks. +1 looks fun