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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 7:50PM
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Apr 12, 2012
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I'm pretty new to Magic, having only started playing Magic Online a few days ago. I did play the paper-card version a bit in high school, but that was almost a decade ago at this point, so I'm a rookie when it comes to modern Magic. The idea of the deck is to produce and power-up as many zombies as possible, while recalling important zombies that have been killed with abilities like Disentomb and the Ghoulraiser. I've been having lots of trouble with enemy Flying Creatures, Enchantments and Artifacts, but don't have (or know of) any appropriate cards that could truly counter them. 2 Warpath Ghoul
2 Doom Blade
3 Adaptive Automaton
2 Ghoulcaller's Chant
2 Ghoulraiser
1 One-Eyed Scarecrow
2 Diregraf Ghoul
1 Cemetery Reaper
1 Jar of Eyeballs
1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
7 Swamp
2 Nested Ghoul
3 Walking Corpse
1 Geth's Verdict
1 Cellar Door
2 Moan of the Unhallowed
1 Sightless Ghoul
2 Disentomb
2 Highborn Ghoul
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Go for the Throat
1 Gravedigger
2 Unbreathing Horde
7 Swamp
7 Swamp
2 Skinrender
1 Diabolic Tutor
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 11:12PM
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Unfortunately black can't deal with artifacts and enchantments very well, so you might as well ignore them and focus on your strengths. As for enemy flyers, I suggest adding more of Geth's Verdict  and Doom Blade  , and a zombie deck can benefit from Lord of the Undead  , Zombie Master  and Soulless One  .
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 11:25PM
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Feb 28, 2011
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 11:32PM
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Feb 28, 2011
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adaptive automaton ids a stange card in a tribal deck with so many lords to choose from. Your decks need an actual strategy, it seems a bit all over the place. Most zombie decks try to overwhelm opponent using strong 1 drops in conjunction with strong lords to mount a fast and powerful offense. Its not the only strategy at all, but you would need to find some way to make use of zombierecursion to give you power ( zombie infestation  and madness is one example) cuz other than skinrender and phyrexian crusader zombies are sadly lacking in powerful, stand-alone 3-5 drops.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 11:43PM
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I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by "1 drops", and I assume "lord" refers to creatures like Lord of the Undead and Undead Warchief  ? I haven't been able to find many of those kinds of cards in the Standard format in Magic Online (which is the version I started playing a few days ago). The closest I could find were the Adaptive Automaton  and Cemetery Reaper  , which I did my best to include as many of as I could. The "newbies" section of Magic Online only allows Stadard-format and special "Planeswalker" decks to be used. The one time I tried playing in the normal section with a Classic deck type I was destroyed by a player who had a card that prevented any non-flying creatures from attacking, then made me sit and watch as he made 20 4/4 Angel tokens. It was humiliating, to say the least.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 11:48PM
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Feb 28, 2011
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 11:51PM
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Feb 28, 2011
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4 x Black Cat  4 x Cemetery Reaper 4 x Diregraf Captain  3 x Diregraf Ghoul  4 x Geralf's Messenger  4 x Gravecrawler  4 x Skinrender  4 x Unbreathing Horde  2 x Liliana of the Veil  12 x Swamp  4 x Darkslick Shores  4 x Drowned Catacomb  4 x Evil Twin  3 x Ghoulcaller’s Chant  is standard and runs something similar to the agro tactic. its not cheap but im afraid you wont be able to build a good zombie deck, certainly not in standard without deep pockets 
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 12:04AM
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Apr 12, 2012
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That's unfortunate. I tried to copy the Ghoulkeeper deck from the Duel of the Planeswalkers video game, which was what got me to try Magic again in the first place. I don't see any cards that make zombie tokens in your version. Were they all dropped for more buffing-type cards like the Diregraf Captain s?
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 12:15AM
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Feb 28, 2011
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zombies dont rly do well at tokens. reaper can be useful but hes mostly a beater/buffer. Yoy CAN build a deck around endless ranks, but it will always be relatively easy to disrupt and just not quite as powerful as one without it. Altho i suppose this depends on the power and budget of opponent. Vs a good deck ranks wont usually work, vs a mediocre deck it will be a great fun way to win 
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 1:17AM
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Apr 12, 2012
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Hmm. So cards like Endless Ranks of The Dead  , Moan of the Unhallowed  , and Nested Ghoul  don't make for very good decks? Seems a little odd since there are so many cards that make tokens, that there wouldn't be a powerful deck somewhere in there. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take a harder look at what I can do with the cards I have or can easily aquire.
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