This is a tribal zombie deck. This is not my current build as I have made many many revisions to the deck. Currently it is the only deck my brother will play. This deck doesn't care wether or not your creatures live or die. You just bring them back with Balthor. Plus Balthor is a great group hug card for those playing Red or Black. This deck is all about zombie swarm.
I will post my current build once I can get it out of my brothers hands.
I would highly recommend throwing in an Oversold Cemetery That will give you more options for regrowth.
Other cards to consider: Aphetto Vulture A flying gravdigger? sweet Bitter Ordeal Killer Combo piece. Imagine pumping your husk with a ton of sacked creatures. Killing all your opponents creatures then getting fogged? no problem dig through your opponents deck for all his combo pieces and shut him out of the game. This card should go in no questions asked. Black Market Couple this with grave pact and a sac outlet for some crazy mana acceleration Bridge from Below its kinda iffy but it can help when your opponents are creatureless and you need more sac targets for pumping. Buried Alive ive got a great idea lets throw all our good creatures into the graveyard then pop balthor. Definitely a must for this deck. Butcher of Malakir Walking gravepacts are good Corpse Connoisseur More Balthor food Cyclopean Giant Use him as a sac outlet a few dozen times then mana screw your opponent by turning everything into swamps Decaying Soil its a good option to amp up the regrowth. use it wisely though cause it slowly eats your graveyard. Entomb more balthor fuel Ghastly Remains The self resurrecting zombie Grim Harvest Recurring regrowth spells are nice. Gristle Grinner Go ahead and pump your husk this guy will pump up on his own in the meanwhile. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge This guy is a bad ass plain and simple. Infectious Host repeatedly sac him to pump and he dishes 2 damage a sac. Infernal Genesis So let me get this straight I dump cards into my graveyard and I get creature tokens? hell ya Last Laugh This card is a must have for a reanimator deck. Its multiplayer shenanigans I pump my husk wipe the board and burn everyone in one swift stroke Living Death This card is just plain broken Moonlight Bargain dump 5 cards into your graveyard or pay a bit to put them into your hand. Nether Traitor albeit not a zombie but a hell of a self reanimator. this guy never goes away and he is cheap too. No Rest for the Wicked Everything went kablooey? no problem Quest for the Gravelord pulling out 5/5 zombie for doing what this deck does best? icing on the cake. Sadistic Glee Cheapest most effective pump card ever. Throw this on top of a husk and watch the hilarity ensue. For one mana you cant go wrong. Shred Memory its main purpose is tutoring with the transmute. Its a pretty good card to have in. Skirk Ridge Exhumer dump your fatties into the graveyard for a balthor pop and put some chumps on the field. I like 2fers Tombstone Stairwell skip the reanimator process altogether and just pay a cumulative upkeep each turn for a crap ton of token sacs Victimize Drop in two fatties in your graveyard for one chump token sweet deal.
I have tried Oversold Cemetery in the deck. I have it in my sideboard. It is a good card but I tend not to have too many creatures in the graveyard until I go infinite or unless I am in trouble. So I have played the card & it tends to be a vanilla enchantment. Balthor is such a good reanimator that I would rather use him then adding too many cards that allow me to get stuff back.
I also had Corpse Connoisseur in the deck. It also is in my side board. It really was fairly good. Generally I found that his cost sometimes was to high. I prefer cheaper Zombies. However Bone Dancer hasn't worked out very well.
Bitter Ordeal seems interesting. What would you suggest taking out for it?
Infectious Host needed to be added I just need to find him in my collection.
Haakon, Stromgald Scourge seems ideal. I have not added him cause I don't have one & I don't have many ways to discard cards into the graveyard aside from Skirk Ridge Exhummer.
Shred Memory seems really good. Tutors are a must. Need to add this card.
Buried Alive does seem good.
Entomb seems expensive but good.
Redid this deck many many times. My brother is borrowing it right now. The whole idea of this deck is to run a horde of Zombies & reanimate with Balthor. This deck can be overwhelming because you don't care if your creatures die. I will post my current build when I get around to it.
Redid this deck many many times. My brother is borrowing it right now. The whole idea of this deck is to run a horde of Zombies & reanimate with Balthor. This deck can be overwhelming because you don't care if your creatures die. I will post my current build when I get around to it.
1 Balthor the Defiled
Creatures
2 Lord of the Undead
3 Cemetery Reaper
4 Death Baron
5 Undead Warchief
6 Ascendant Evincar
7 Carrion Feeder
8 Phyrexian Ghoul
9 Nantuko Husk
10 Magus of the Coffers
11 Solemn Simulacrum
12 Maggot Carrier
13 Vengeful Dead
14 Shepherd of Rot
15 Gempalm Polluter
16 Stromgald Crusader
17 Soulless One
18 Khabal Ghoul
19 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
20 Infectious Horror
21 Zombie Master
22 Corpse Harvester
23 Grave Defiler
24 Graveborn Muse
25 Twisted Abomination
26 Cadaverous Knight
27 Noxious Ghoul
28 Gravedigger
29 Rotting Rats
30 Helldozer
31 Zombie Trailblazer
32 Fleshbag Marauder
33 Gravespawn Sovereign
34 Yixlid Jailer
35 Dregscape Zombie
36 Bone Dancer
37 Festering Goblin
38 Skirk Ridge Exhumer
39 Loxodon Warhammer
40 Sol Ring
41 Everflowing Chalice
42 Demon's horn
43 Skullclamp
44 Caged Sun
45 Lightning Greaves
46 Angelheart Vial
47 Sensei's Divining Top
48 Gauntlet of Power
Spells
49 Phyrexian Arena
50 Bloodchief Ascension
51 GravePact
52 Liliana Vess
53 Profane Command
54 Syphon Mind
55 Mutilate
56 Diabolic Tutor
57 Beseech the Queen
58 Demonic Tutor
59 Sign in Blood
60 Beacon of Unrest
61 Dark Ritual
62 Tendrils of Corruption
63 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
64 Cabal Coffers
65 Leechridden Swamp
66 Unholy Grotto
67 Swamp
100 Swamp
This is a tribal zombie deck. This is not my current build as I have made many many revisions to the deck. Currently it is the only deck my brother will play. This deck doesn't care wether or not your creatures live or die. You just bring them back with Balthor. Plus Balthor is a great group hug card for those playing Red or Black. This deck is all about zombie swarm.
I will post my current build once I can get it out of my brothers hands.
Thanks,
Joe
Other cards to consider:
Aphetto Vulture A flying gravdigger? sweet
Bitter Ordeal Killer Combo piece. Imagine pumping your husk with a ton of sacked creatures. Killing all your opponents creatures then getting fogged? no problem dig through your opponents deck for all his combo pieces and shut him out of the game. This card should go in no questions asked.
Black Market Couple this with grave pact and a sac outlet for some crazy mana acceleration
Bridge from Below its kinda iffy but it can help when your opponents are creatureless and you need more sac targets for pumping.
Buried Alive ive got a great idea lets throw all our good creatures into the graveyard then pop balthor. Definitely a must for this deck.
Butcher of Malakir Walking gravepacts are good
Corpse Connoisseur More Balthor food
Cyclopean Giant Use him as a sac outlet a few dozen times then mana screw your opponent by turning everything into swamps
Decaying Soil its a good option to amp up the regrowth. use it wisely though cause it slowly eats your graveyard.
Entomb more balthor fuel
Ghastly Remains The self resurrecting zombie
Grim Harvest Recurring regrowth spells are nice.
Gristle Grinner Go ahead and pump your husk this guy will pump up on his own in the meanwhile.
Haakon, Stromgald Scourge This guy is a bad ass plain and simple.
Infectious Host repeatedly sac him to pump and he dishes 2 damage a sac.
Infernal Genesis So let me get this straight I dump cards into my graveyard and I get creature tokens? hell ya
Last Laugh This card is a must have for a reanimator deck. Its multiplayer shenanigans I pump my husk wipe the board and burn everyone in one swift stroke
Living Death This card is just plain broken
Moonlight Bargain dump 5 cards into your graveyard or pay a bit to put them into your hand.
Nether Traitor albeit not a zombie but a hell of a self reanimator. this guy never goes away and he is cheap too.
No Rest for the Wicked Everything went kablooey? no problem
Quest for the Gravelord pulling out 5/5 zombie for doing what this deck does best? icing on the cake.
Sadistic Glee Cheapest most effective pump card ever. Throw this on top of a husk and watch the hilarity ensue. For one mana you cant go wrong.
Shred Memory its main purpose is tutoring with the transmute. Its a pretty good card to have in.
Skirk Ridge Exhumer dump your fatties into the graveyard for a balthor pop and put some chumps on the field. I like 2fers
Tombstone Stairwell skip the reanimator process altogether and just pay a cumulative upkeep each turn for a crap ton of token sacs
Victimize Drop in two fatties in your graveyard for one chump token sweet deal.
Please check out my Malfegor hate deck and give some suggestions.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=240217
I have tried Oversold Cemetery in the deck. I have it in my sideboard. It is a good card but I tend not to have too many creatures in the graveyard until I go infinite or unless I am in trouble. So I have played the card & it tends to be a vanilla enchantment. Balthor is such a good reanimator that I would rather use him then adding too many cards that allow me to get stuff back.
I also had Corpse Connoisseur in the deck. It also is in my side board. It really was fairly good. Generally I found that his cost sometimes was to high. I prefer cheaper Zombies. However Bone Dancer hasn't worked out very well.
Bitter Ordeal seems interesting. What would you suggest taking out for it?
Infectious Host needed to be added I just need to find him in my collection.
Haakon, Stromgald Scourge seems ideal. I have not added him cause I don't have one & I don't have many ways to discard cards into the graveyard aside from Skirk Ridge Exhummer.
Shred Memory seems really good. Tutors are a must. Need to add this card.
Buried Alive does seem good.
Entomb seems expensive but good.
Again thanks for all the help.
Joe
I hope the new version includes Mesmeric Orb!
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