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The Phylactery Liches will become as good as unstoppable, your zombies and skeletons will be boosted by Death Baron. Drudge Skeletons, Reassembling Skeleton and Skeletal Wurm will be a pain as you regenerate and return them from the grave.
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Speed looks to be a real issue with this build, and while you have a set of Rituals here, I can imagine there are times where you're still waiting on mana. There's a couple of ways you can help this along: First, increase your land count. Ideally, this build would be best as a mono-black creation. But even there, you'd want/need at least 22-24 black land sources consider how high some of your mana costs are. You could also consider adding in the Myr that taps for black, as creature mana acceleration never hurts. You can add Vault of Whispers, the black artifact land, as well (and count towards your land count) as it will give you another artifact target for your Phylactery Lich. If you intend to stay Black/Blue, adding the other Myr that taps for U, could also be added. Otherwise, Talisman of Dominance might help things along, as well. In the land area, definitely increase the Drowned Catacomb count to 4 if you can, and try to obtain a set of Polluted Deltas as they will drastically assist you as well. Seat of the Synod is the blue artifact land. Beyond that you should be fine after balancing out your curve. There's nothing wrong with having large casting cost spells/creatures in a deck as long as you can feasibly play them as soon as possible. Therefore, if things are tight, consider phasing out some of the 7+ cards and implement some Whispersilk Cloaks to make your Phylactery more of a nuisance. Hope these suggestions help! I welcome any comments and criticism you can offer for any of the decks I have posted here on the site (just click on my name to see the deck list). Thanks in advance!
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I know the manacurve is a bit unstable, I will fix it - but not with the myrs as I think they don´t copy with the theme and would stick out. But Talisman of Dominance was rather good and actually added to the theme (even though i don´t like lifeloss in general). I can´t afford the Drowned Catacombs right now but i will definitely add them as soon as I can. The same story is for Vault of Whispers and Seat of the Synod. I really appreciate it man, thanks.
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Hey check out Darksteel Citadel, that's alot more useful than Darksteel Relic...
I already have that one. If you'd pay attention.
I checked if you had it, you must have added it or I missed it
Yeah, I had two of them and two of Darksteel Relic. It makes sense now to just skip the Relics and go for two more Darksteel Citadel.
Or no it doesn't . Because you can only play one land card each turn. I'll keep them in sideboard.
But why sideboarding them? xD Besides you already have 8 artifact lands so it shouldn't be a problem to have an artifact in play.
I guess I'm just paranoid. I gotta have an indestructible artifact, then I'm unstoppable - FWAHAHAHAA!!! But your probably right... as always...
Have you considered Lich Lord of Unx?
Indeed. I actually had him in here for some time. Think I'm gonna take him in again?
With a death baron out, you're talking UB for a 2/2 zombie wizard with deathtouch. Great for chump blocking. You'll also often find yourself with open mana for his second ability.
Makes sense.
unholy strength should be replaced with Darksteel Axe for an additional Lich counter target imo I think P Lich is the most underrated creature of the set, and this is a great deck to highlight him.
Good idea man, thanks!
love the deck. just a suggestion, the wurms are flavorful and all, but pale in comparison with other options such as grave titan, which is just as flavorful, and gives you an army of zombies to be pumped up by your death barons. other than that, this deck is really nostalgic for me, my first deck was a monoblack zombie deck :)
It's a bit expensive, but P. Lich + Worldslayer.
Isn't Brainstorm still restircted?
That might be, but I'm more of a casual player anyways, but I'll swap them for Preordain.
No Brainstorm is not restricted and always play brainstorm over preordain
also 4 is better than 3 imo..
how about vengeful pharaoh for this undead deck? it's costly but can frustrating the opponent
two words. HALLOWED BURIAL.
...quick question, what format is this legal in other than type 1 and type 1.5?
This deck appears to be valid in the new Modern format. Not sure of any restrictions or banned cards since I cannot see that page where I am at.
I love the deck idea. Since you're running blue, I'd consider throwing some counter spells into the sideboard. And I'd probably take out 2 Wurms and replace them with Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon.
This is quite a fun deck idea. Thanks for posting it!
I love playing zombies they're way fun. ive tried this deck idea before but it wasn't as good as yours. Check out my quicksilver amulet deck. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=226001
Holy crap, it totally flew over my head to use indestructible artifacts! Why the hell didn't I think of that...I have a Lich deck sort of like this and it should have crossed my mind to add Darksteel crap in it! Thanks for putting this up so it finally hit me!
Finally a good deck!! Thanks! Just wanna point out that skeleton worm is not that good.. i would rather have zombies with fear.. If you kill every other creature with resembling skeleton because of death baron. I Think that would make it faster..
True.
mate i wanted to throw some advice on this deck i run lich's in a fast black deck and ive previously had a deck that produced zombies and ran death baron, grave titan is a personal favourite, so feel i have some knowlage, however i havnt got much to say despite what i though as this looks ridiculously well balanced and built ! hoards of the right creatures all working together ! enough artifacts to carry the lich's and underestimated disentomb ! so all i can say is well done to you ! i need help with my smallpox deck,angelic destiny deck, and my bloodthirst decks, if you could follow my name link and help, thanks. maybe you need some removal i know you have skellies as blockers, but theres always nasty abilitys and creatures that u just gotta remove !