Relentless Zombicrats

by winch on 12 February 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (21 cards)

Creatures (4)


Sorceries (8)


Artifacts (1)


Enchantments (2)


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Deck Description

Considering splashing blue for Prized Amalgam, Geralf's Masterpiece, and compelling deterrence, or green for Cryptolith Rite and Second Harvest.

In preparation for the zombies hordes coming out in SoI, here's my mono-black tempo brew.
The SB is a maybe board right now since the deck isn't finalized, so any suggestions are welcome!

How to Play

Crank out creatures, sac em, benefit from cutthroat, fleshbag, Liliana, Kalitas, and others, then bring em back and do it again. There's just enough life gain to perform some awesome late-game combos with Liliana, Kalitas, Diregraf Colosus, Nantuko, and creature destruction to make for some satisfying wins.
Relentless dead, indeed.

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Sacrifice
  • Reanimate
  • Zombie

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Relentless Zombicrats

Sweet brew. I feel like you could go without Ob, shadows and corpse churn for a set of Qarsi Sadist. Also just wondering if you had better luck running only 2 of blood soaked champs instead of a player. Check out my mono black Aristocrat brew and let me know what you think.

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Posted 10 March 2016 at 02:34

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Gurmag swift-wing + coat with venom wrecks Atarka Red. Swift wing is good enough to main board and coat with venom you could main or sideboard. It does trigger kalitas so that helps the argument to main. Maybe 3 of each?? Just a thought.

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Posted 10 March 2016 at 02:57

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Oh my, I didn't even know Gurmag existed. Too bad it's rotating in 3 weeks (but I'm not sure why you use coat with venom instead of touch of moon glove since you have first strike), though Atarka Red does too. That's also why I'm only running 2 bloodsoaked champions, btw. A playset would definitely be worth it (I do tend to top deck when I get into mid/late-game), but when I built this deck I only had 2, and I didn't feel like ordering 2 more for a few weeks of play. If SOI comes out with a viable 1-drop zombie, the deck will be complete.
I put in Shadows and Ob Nix on a whim, and both have won games for me. Shadows (along with foundry of consuls) stops stalemates as well as softening my top-deck problem, and all of Ob Nix's abilities play right in with what I'm doing (and it's my only drop above 4 CMC). As 1-ofs, they can be game changers, as opposed to vampiric rites, which everyone runs, and I haven't ever found helpful due to the continued mana drain. I'm sure corpse churn will get bumped because I'll probably find something better in SOI to bring back Kalitas/Liliana.
Overall, the deck would definitely improve with Gurmag and more champions, but I think I'll just wait to see what SOI does for me instead. Thanks for the ideas!

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Posted 11 March 2016 at 17:37

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Fun thought....swap kalitas out for Thought-not seer. Duress into liliana into thought-not seer. Wow that would really hurt your opponent.

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Posted 13 March 2016 at 22:46

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Ha, that would definitely get you into mid-game, but I despise the Eldrazi. They're not going anywhere near my brews. :)

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Posted 14 March 2016 at 01:27

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