Off-Color: Blue Zombies

by JRE47 on 16 May 2014

Main Deck (61 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Sorceries (6)

Instants (7)

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Deck Description

"That's quite a Zombie army you have there, but my lifegain deck should let me hold out, so....

Wait, what is that? Why are you making me mill? That doesn't make any...huh? And now they're...wait, no! NOOOO!!"

How to Play

This deck is part of my new "off-color" series, featuring well-known tribes from Magic's history, with a big twist: they're NOT in their traditional color.

Zombies have a long history in Magic, and unsurprisingly, most of it is in black. They dabble with other colors--even white!--but black has always been their base.

Then came Innistrad. Suddenly, for the first time, Zombies were showing up en masse in another color: blue. Not just blue/black Zombies, or blue with a black ability in their text, but solid blue from top to bottom. This deck features many of them, and while splashing in black would allow for some rather awesome options, I opted to go mono colored for this one, for flavor.

Mono blue Zombies in Innistrad block had a very un-Zombie theme: milling. But then several of them tie that back to a Zombie's favorite playground--the graveyard--by exiling other unfortunate victims from the grave to enter play cheaply. It's a delicate balance, but one that enables them to throw out massive beaters much earlier than otherwise possible and simply crush the opposition before they can mobilize a response. That is VERY Zombie, don't you think?

Screeching Skaab and Armored Skaab load up the graveyard with creatures to exile and play big beaters like Headless Skaab and Skaab Ruinator (or grow your whole Zombie army with Havengul Runebinder). If they happen to inadvertently mill other spells, several of them have flashback costs so you can still reap the benefits. And then Geralf's Mindcrusher and especially Undead Alchemist combine with straight mill cards to decimate the opponent's deck very quickly.

What do you think? If you like this unusual color concept, check out my other Off-Color decks, including white Elves, green Goblins, Zombie nemesis Humans invading Zombies' traditional black, and another traditional black tribe--Vampires--in mono red! (Just go into my Profile and click on the "Off-Color" tag to see the rest.)

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Tribal
  • Zombie
  • Off-Color

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

044000

Card Legality

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

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