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Hello forum members, and fellow magic the gathering players. I am Ethan Gomez, a relatively new magic player who just got into competitive play recently. I have played only two FNM sanctioned events before, in which I lost every single game I played in, I beleive it was because of my deck not being all that good, and also most likely because of my little experience and skill. But with every loss, I had many conversations with my opponent, some of which gave me valuable information and tips about my deck. 

Some key cards that were reccomended to me were: Mortarpod ,  Strangleroot Geist , and a  Geralf's Messenger , all of which I have included in this green-black undying mechanic based deck, which I think is fairly good. Also, when telling me to add new cards, consider I have purchased and ordered all the cards that are listed and some cards may be out of my fairly now low budget.

Deck List:

Creatures - 23 cards:

x4  Strangleroot Geist
x4  Young Wolf
x4  Butcher Ghoul - Replacement for Wandering Wolf.
x3  Blood Artist
x3 Mortarpod  
x2  Demonlord of Ashmouth - Replacement for Vorapede.*
x2 Geralf's Messenger  
x1 Bloodgift Demon  

Spells - 15 cards:

x3 Bone Splinters  
x3  Blessings of Nature
x2 Undying Evil
x2 Unhallowed Pact  
x2 Mutagenic Growth - Replacement for Wild Hunger.*
x3 Go for the Throat
x2 Doom Blade - Replacement for Unhallowed Pact.

Lands:
x10 Forest  
x12 Swamp

Sideboard:
x2 Deathmark  
x4 Natural End  
x4  Grounded
x2 Eaten by Spiders  
x1  Snare the Skies
x2  Druid's Familiar

Since your creatures are going to do a lot of dying i think that you would benefit from having 4 blood artist so i would definitly try to fit the last one in and it shouldnt be too hard to acquire as its only an uncommon. Going up on the price scale i would highly suggest going up to 4 messengers. It along with strangelroot geist are the best undying creatures in the format. Although kinda pricey messengers have actually gone down in price, i remember when they were $10. Also you definitly want your 4 Woodland Cemetery .

oh and dont forget Tragic Slip for your instant speed removal. 

Thanks for all the support and comments on this deck, I will now reply to each post:

@Da_ghetto_gamer: First, thanks for your comment on saying this deck has potential. Also I agree on the Unhallowed Pact and Wild Hunger feeling awkward, after getting some insight on the fact last night, before I posted this,  I took out two of them and replaced them with Go for the Throat. After other comments, I will most likely replace the rest with some Doom Blades, which I picked up yesterday in an event deck. 

As for wild hunger, I am still debating whether I should go for Mutagenic Growth or [c[Titanic Growth[/c]. As for the rare land, I might not be able to pick any of those up Friday, but if I do, I will update this list. Next Person.

@illusionz: I suppose you are right on the fact that 4 blood artists would be quite good, so most likely I will replace one of the Wandering Wolf with a blood thus making the 'awkward' wolfs smaller. As for the Geralf's Messenger, I do understand that they are a key for any deck, but as of right now my local gaming store just doesn't have any more(thus I was forced to pick up an event deck to get my second one, but it did give me a ton of nice cards). Maybe I will try to trade with my local magic card dealer this friday(a guy who has many cards). 

But in all, thank you for all the support, also I may try to pick them up. Next Person.

@20cdndollar: I do realize that Bloodgift Demon and the Wandering Wolf cards may feel out of place, but I think the Demon is just really a jack of all trades and it should do well in most situations. As for the Wolf, I do agree that it needs to go. I have already agreed to replace the first Wolf with a 4th Blood Artist. As for the other three, I am debating whether or not to replace them with Butcher Ghoul s. 

Mutagenic Growth seems like a fairly good card in my opinion as well, but it may be hard to find some to replace Wild Hunger with by Friday, if I do manage to find some, although I do already have a green mana fix, I may try to add some of these into my deck. Thank you for all your help, and I hope you would come back to post about the Butcher Ghoul situation.

Thanks for all your comments, you will all be sent an update from me now!

Undying evils are doing much for you since all your creatures have undying except for the 3 blood artists and 1 Bloodgift Demon. I think I like Demonlord of Ashmouth more than Vorapede . Triple green can be a real pain with no duals. Demonlord is 1 less mana and has the same stats. Demonlord's drawback is pretty non significant since you have a ton of undying creatures to sack to it. Hex Parasite might be worth checking out since it can remove +1/+1 counters.

Vorapede and Messengers with their triple colored mana costs are too taxing on your land base. Choose one, then make its color the core of your deck and just splash the other a bit. I'd go with the Messengers, since black has better synergy with undying creatures. I'm with re4leonkennedy with his suggestion of replacing Vorapede with Demonlord of Ashmouth. Just don't get caught w/o creatures in play to sacrifice when he returns.