On 3-25-2012, Sam Black did what many of us could not. He managed to create a decent zombie list for Legacy and pilot it to a top 16 finish at a Star City Games Open. Since I was unable to find a thread for this deck on the forum, I took it upon myself to create one.
Here's his list:
ZOMBARDMENT
Zombies by Sam Black Top 16 SCG Open 3-25-2012
4x Bloodghast
4x Carrion Feeder
3x Geralf's Messenger
4x Gravecrawler
2x Rotting Rats
2x Tombstalker
2x Goblin Bombardment
1x Tragic Slip
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Faithless Looting
1x Gitaxian Probe
4x Hymn to Tourach
1x Inquisition of Kozilek
4x Lingering Souls
1x Thoughtseize
3x Swamp
2x Badlands
4x Bloodstained Mire
4x Marsh Flats
1x Polluted Delta
2x Scrubland
1x Undiscovered Paradise
2x Verdant Catacombs
Sideboard:
3x Dark Confidant
1x Goblin Bombardment
1x Grave Pact
1x Darkblast
1x Disenchant
1x Geth's Verdict
1x Tragic Slip
3x Deathmark
1x Inquisition of Kozilek
1x Thoughtseize
1x Vindicate
A good start for a zombies list, but it needed a little streamlining, and then
Zombies by Sam Black Top 8 GP Atlanta 7-1-2012
3 Blood Artist
4 Bloodghast
4 Carrion Feeder
4 Gravecrawler
3 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Bitterblossom
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faithless Looting
3 Goblin Bombardment
4 Lingering Souls
4 Thoughtseize
1 Tragic Slip
3 Badlands
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Marsh Flats
3 Polluted Delta
3 Scrubland
2 Swamp
1 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Verdant Catacombs
Sideboard:
2 Dark Confidant
1 Darkblast
2 Disenchant
2 Go for the Throat
2 Perish
2 Pithing Needle
3 Surgical Extraction
1 Vindicate
Wow. A top 8 at a Grand Prix with this? That must mean that Black is on to something here...
Now lets look at some card choices and their purpose in the deck:
Looking at creatures, they all fit the sacrificial theme, whether they are the fodder (Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, Tidehollow Sculler) or that they benefit from the sacrifice (Carrion Feeder, Blood Artist). They all are aggressive cards, but Tidehollow Sculler can provide some added utility as well.
There is also a mini token theme going on here with Bitterblossom and Lingering Souls providing more sacrificial fodder as well as either additional blockers or attackers should the need arise.
Then we have the disruption including discard (Cabal Therapy, Thoughtseize) and removal (Goblin Bombardment, Tragic Slip), all of which are good and solid choices in almost any meta.
Any time an aggressive deck has access to good, cheap card advantage, that deck gets a major boost and here is no different. Faithless Looting is amazing in this deck more often drawing you 2 cards and discarding 1 or 2 to be used later than just drawing and discarding.
The sideboard in this new version is still a little bit of a mess of proven decent sideboard cards. A mix of removal (Disenchant, Darkblast, Vindicate, Go for the Throat, Perish) plus Pithing Needle for activated abilities and Surgical Extraction for graveyard hate can go a long way in shoring up those odd matchups. The only oddball here is Dark Confidant, who seems out of place amongst the silver bullets. Maybe there's a matchup where the card advantage provided is incredibly important. I'm not really sure myself.
It's cool to see something fresh and exciting break the monotony of Legacy's big bad decks once in a while, and with a little support by players, this deck could turn out to be a real contender.
Last edited by Zupponn; 07-03-2012 at 02:31 AM.
With all due respect, you could hand Sam Black a deck with sixty Mountains in it and he'd still find a way to win.
Aside from that, it's a nifty idea for the current meta. But it still looks like a mess.
Deadapult in place of Goblin Bombardment
This seems like kind of a stupid thing to say. A deck is only as good as the cards in it, it's performance at an objective level is measurable only by composition. The player can only match the performance that the deck is actually capable of, never exceed it (otherwise the implication is that the cards can do something that they can't, which is impossible) so a skilled pilot will surely make the most out of the deck, saying that the only reason it did well is because the person playing it is good is kind of a misnomer. The deck is good enough to get there, if it wasn't, it wouldn't have made it.
I find that legacy in general has very well defined ideas as to what is considered good and things that fall outside that realm are considered bad: for example, creature enchantments vs equipment. Blouses took a card type that is largely considered bad and performed extremely well.
I feel that soon, synergy will overstep "goodstuff.dec", as it should shortly in legacy. This deck screams of synergy, it has multiple avenues to victory, the cards function well together, and it's threats, removal, and win-condition are all recurring which is exceedingly hard to deal with. A concern for sure is going to be Scavenging Ooze, which intelligent players will use to great effect against the deck, but it's something that can be overcome and handled.
You should look better through threads:
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...ving-Dead-Girl
"Want all, lose all."
What are people's thoughts on the deck right now? I'm interested in building it, just because it's so different than the others out there. :)
''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'' Lord Eddard Stark - A Game of Thrones
-Adsum
-ChrisMeister on MTGO
I built this deck on MTGO, and I find really cool. Turn 1 IoK, Turn 2 Cabal Therapy Flashback Cabal Therapy. GG?
''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'' Lord Eddard Stark - A Game of Thrones
-Adsum
-ChrisMeister on MTGO
Until you stumble onto a Show and Tell player packing Leylines of Sanctity.
Originally Posted by Lemnear
Played yesterday in a 54 people tournament with a kinda straight list.
20 lands (10 fetches, 2 swamps, 3 Scrubland, 3 Badland, 1 Bayou, 1 Undiscovered Paradise)
4 Gravecrawler
4 Bloodghast
3 Carrion Feeder
1 Unearth
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Lingering Souls
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Goblin Bombardment
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Blood Artist
2 Thoughtseize
4 Faithless Looting
(Last minute call to cut 2 Thoughtseize in favor of 2 Blood Artists to test them.)
My sideboard was a mess..
3 Dark Confidant
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Disenchant
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Perish
1 Dark Blast
1 Zealous Persecution
1 Sword to Plowshares
1 Oblivion Ring
To the matches..all out of memory so it probably isn't quite correct but anyway..
M1 vs Junk
G1 He starts with a combination of Deathrite Shaman into Mother of Runes, Jitte, Ooze and I die horribly.
G2 I get him down, if I remember correctly with souls tokens..
G3 We hit each other, he with a Mirran Crusader, I with souls tokens. I'm on 4 with a board consisting off 1 Goblin Bombardment, 2 Souls Tokens and 1 Gravecrawler, he the named Mirran Crusader and 2 Mother of Runes.
I Ship the turn, sac the crawler in his upkeep to kill a Mother of Runes, he gives the crusader pro red.
I sac a token to kill his other mother, he protects itself with pro red. which won me the game since I now could block the crusader with the left token. My turn flashback souls, cast StP on his crusader, kill his mother and rode to victory.
1-0 (2-1)
M2 vs Miraclerip
G1 He starts off with RIP into Energy Field, I scoop.
G2 He has no chance since I rip his hand off with Therapy, Scullers and beat him down fast enough.
G3 Real grindy game, I discard a Counterbalance, he plays a RIP, I discard his single Helm of Obedience, he wraths me several times while I beat him down. He lands a counterbalance and beats me down with a Clique which is met with an Abrupt Decay (so I don't die) I rip of the other one to remove his counterbalance and get a confidant going which meets a stp. I get him on 2, he lands a Force Field. We go to time and he doesn't rip his last win condition (Angels) and neither do I rip Oblivion Ring/Disenchant for his Field to kill him (would've ripped it on my next turn =/).
1-0-1
(3-1-1)
M3 vs Punishing Maverick
G1 He gets Ooze online.. Kinght aswell, maybe a Jitte? Anyway I lose fast.
G2 gets grindy and I manage to win.
G3 He's a little flooded and I win.
2-0-1
(5-2-1)
M4 vs Burn
G1 I keep a hand with 3 lands (2 fetches 1 Paradise), 2 Gravecrawler & 1 Tidehollow Sculler. Starting with a crawler and getting hit by a bolt I know I'm up against burn. In my second turn I play the Paradise and play the Sculler, seeing Price of Progress which made me stay on 1 1/2 lands (mostly 1, sometimes if needed I played the Paradise) and beat him down with my 3 creatures (I only drew lands and 1 Bombardment).
I manage to race him barely.
G2 I keep a hand with Carrion Feeder, Gravecrawler, 3 lands and 2 Blood Artists.
3-0-1
(7-2-1)
M5 vs Merfolk
G1 He starts with a mulligan to 5 and I win easily.
G2 He surprises me with a Chalice on 1 and wins after quite a long game since hes missing his second Island forever while I drew nothing but lands.
G3 I start with double Deathrite Shaman and win the game while having 0 lands since he wasted 2.. I did drew some other lands but kept them in hand since I didn't need them for returning Bloodghasts.
4-0-1
(9-3-1)
M6 (finals) vs Punishing Jund
Ugly games..
I'll make it short.. I was flooded both games..(10 & 12 lands after seeing 18 respectively 22 cards). Saw 0 Lingering Souls, 0 Perish and G1 he had 3 Deathrite Shaman, G2 2 of them (first one ripped t1 after Therapy on named Shaman)..
4-1-1
(9-5-1)
Which led to place 6 for a Snapcaster Mage.
At least I had a ton of fun playing with the deck (out of the finals which was kinda depressing).
Is it okay if I run IoK instead of Thoughtseize?
''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'' Lord Eddard Stark - A Game of Thrones
-Adsum
-ChrisMeister on MTGO
That's exactly what I was thinking, too. :)
''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'' Lord Eddard Stark - A Game of Thrones
-Adsum
-ChrisMeister on MTGO
How is Bitterblossom in the deck? Also, I want to try out the High Priest too, good move?
''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'' Lord Eddard Stark - A Game of Thrones
-Adsum
-ChrisMeister on MTGO
I think you can't effectively replace Thoughtseize with IoK. There are so many situations in which you really want to take that FoW or that Sneak Attack or that Griselbrand or that JTMS... Of course Cabal Therapy can mitigate here - but thats a 2 for 1 exchange. Especially against Sneak Attack or JTMS-decks you will later curse yourself for playing budget.
It's not about budget really, since I play duals and what-not, it's more the life-loss I'm not so happy about...
''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'' Lord Eddard Stark - A Game of Thrones
-Adsum
-ChrisMeister on MTGO
Is there a place for a young pyromancer?
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