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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 9:06PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 18, 2012
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I might be coming back to the forums for a time as I'm getting back into casual magic! Anyways, as a welcome back present, I have spent the last while hunting through the gatherer (torturous) to cobble together a semi decent Necrotic Army deck. Creatures: 22 4 x Gravecrawler 
4 x Diregraf Ghoul 
4 x Skirk Ridge Exhumer 
4 x Death Baron 
4 x Diregraf Captain 
2 x Havengul Lich 
Instants/Sorceries: 1 x 1 
4 x Ghoulcaller's Chant 
4 x Stitch Together 
3 x Endless Ranks of the Dead 
Lands: 2 x 4 
4 x Drowned Catacomb 
12 x Swamp 
8 x Island 
Possibly too many 3 drops? Both Cemetery Reaper and Diregraf Captain are both too good to pass up in this deck, because of their secondary abilites.
EDIT: forgot the most important part. This deck is meant to SWARM enemies. Its supposed to be pushing tokens and sending wves into the enemy to be crushed and have the body parts stitched back together again. Its all about weakening them with each successive wave, leaving just enough creatures to survive. Diregraf Captain and Cemetery Reaper both love this, because whenever one of my creatures die, Dirgraf Captain makes an opponent pay for his victory, and with Cemetery Reaper token summoning, his victory could be a double whammy to end the life of one of his more powerful creatures weakened by the fighting as well.
With that said, I believe a little more token generation in this deck would not be remiss, as long as it is good and steady generation. I was also thinking about replacing Diregraf Ghoul with Highborn Ghoul 
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 9:40PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 16, 2009
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The biggest issue I see is that you pretty much have only one form of removal, and it's not even going to be easy to activate on will given that you Festering Goblin tokens have to die for you to give another creature -1/-1. Which means Cemetary Reaper  would have to target stuff in your own graveyard (unless you're getting trades in combat), in which case your graveyard recursion becomes almost useless. Fleshbag Marauder  is on theme, cheap, and can be recurred or fed to Cemetary Reaper. Skinrender  is another solid option. Besides that, black has all sorts of awesome spot removal. Geth's Verdict  , Go for the Throat  , Ultimate Price  , Tragic Slip  etc. You're also susceptible to non-creatures your opponent plays when you're going mono black, so targetted hand hate, like Duress  and Thoughtseize  and be good options.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 05, 2012 - 5:26AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 18, 2012
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The biggest issue I see is that you pretty much have only one form of removal, and it's not even going to be easy to activate on will given that you Festering Goblin tokens have to die for you to give another creature -1/-1. Which means Cemetary Reaper would have to target stuff in your own graveyard (unless you're getting trades in combat), in which case your graveyard recursion becomes almost useless.
Fleshbag Marauder is on theme, cheap, and can be recurred or fed to Cemetary Reaper. Skinrender is another solid option. Besides that, black has all sorts of awesome spot removal. Geth's Verdict , Go for the Throat , Ultimate Price , Tragic Slip etc.
You're also susceptible to non-creatures your opponent plays when you're going mono black, so targetted hand hate, like Duress and Thoughtseize and be good options.
Changed the overview for a deck goal summary. Pretty much this deck isn't meant to worry about removal, control, or big creatures. Its pretty much built for one thing, and one thing only swarming the enemy with waves of weak monsters, buffed by Lords, and sweeping an enemy with not enough monsters aside. Its weakness is token generation and flying decks. I would like to add more token generation to counter token generation, or maybe a sweeper like Black Sun's Zenith  so that I can wipe out all of my own creatures (except my Lords), to deal a huge blow to my enemy with Diregraf Captain's secondary.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 05, 2012 - 5:45AM
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Maybe Marsh Casualties  . I'm all for the Skinrender as well, he's just boss.
Borrowing the East Wind  (P3) - Haha, it's like Hurricane  but for horsemanship? That makes hilariously little sense. "Oh man, the wind is so much worse up on this horse."
Jon Finkel can win a Magic tournament with a ham sandwich. That doesn't mean ham sandwiches are now the metagame breaker.
Koth: I'm the first viable red planeswalker. Who are you?
Tibalt: I'm a two-mana red planeswalker.
Koth: I'm the last viable red planeswalker.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 05, 2012 - 10:20AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 30, 2012
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I was always a fan of Death Baron  .
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!
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6 months ago ::
Dec 05, 2012 - 11:17AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 15, 2012
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needs more two drops
dump the stitch togethers and the Ghoulcaller's Chant. Many games will not have creatures in the graveyard to grab
none of the creatures are worth recovering except the lich
TLDR
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6 months ago ::
Dec 05, 2012 - 1:34PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 18, 2012
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Maybe Marsh Casualties . I'm all for the Skinrender as well, he's just boss.
Skinrender, good as he is, becomes worthless once I add in Death Baron. The universal Deathtouch is just so much more powerful.
I was always a fan of Death Baron .
Death baron would indeed probably be better than Cemetery Reaper. I'll make the change.
needs more two drops
dump the stitch togethers and the Ghoulcaller's Chant. Many games will not have creatures in the graveyard to grab
none of the creatures are worth recovering except the lich
did you even read what the decks goal was??
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