Please Recycle... Your Zombies

by JRE47 on 20 February 2014

Main Deck (61 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (5)


Instants (1)

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Deck Description

Get Gravecrawler one way or another, then use it as a neverending sac outlet to pound your way to victory.

How to Play

Gravecrawler is the key. Get him early, either by getting him in your graveyard (Entomb or Bury Alive) or simple draw, then go to town. Sac him for strength boosters for your other creatures (Phyrexian Ghoul, Nantuko Husk, and especially Carrion Feeder), life loss for the opponent (Diregraf Captain, Blood Artist), card draw (Altar's Reap), creature kills (Tragic Slip, Grave Pact), and all the fun that can be had with Grimgrin.

The rest is just complementary and beaters. Geralf's Messenger is a decent second sac outlet, and he and others can be brought back from the graveyard once they land there for good with Lord of the Undead. Singletons of Mikaeus and Corpse Harvester won't always contribute, but if the game drags long enough that one of them hits, they can put your hopes on their backs and win it for you.

In the sideboard, the cards of particular note are Bone Splinters (turn Gravecrawler into cheap kills), Corpse Blockade (very annoying blocker with 'Crawler around), and Skirk Ridge Exhumer (as a way to discard Gravecrawler or dead draws for bonus Zombies).

There are decks out there that can wreck this, no doubt...graveyard hate puts this in a world of pain. But unless the opposing deck is really built for that, it's REALLY hard to stop once it gets going. Getting Grimgrin or one of your smaller sac-for-strength outlets out and it's pretty much GG.

Try it out and see for yourself how fun recycling can be!

Deck Tags

  • Legacy
  • Zombie
  • Sacrifice
  • Gravecrawler

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Please Recycle... Your Zombies

Nice deck but I see you are already running blue then why not;
-2 Buried Alive
-2 Entomb
+3 Intuition ( It's instant, and can be used for anything not just creatures and you got to keep 1 card in your hand)
+1 Braids, cabal minion (you can sacrifice creatures all day lets see your opponent can do it also)
-2 Altar's Reap
+2 Skullclamp (equip it to Gravecrawler it dies and you draw 2 cards, cast GC again repeat much more better than altar's reap)

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Posted 15 March 2014 at 19:04

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All good thoughts, thanks!

I'll see if I can find room for at least one Intuition. Seems like a good way to fetch all my 'Crawlers.

Braids I had considered, but seems quite risky if I can't get (and keep) Gravecrawler on the table. But I'll consider it. (Had been thinking of Anowon for the same purpose...forgot about the cheaper and perhaps better Braids!)

Skullclamp is sadly not legal in Legacy...I'd have to go to Vintage for that, which I'm reluctant to do.

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Posted 18 March 2014 at 18:14

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