Adam Haggerty's Skeleton/zombies
 
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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Main Deck - 77 cards, 22 distinct
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Name  Ed. Price Type Cost P T Modified
Rarity Color
Creature (33)
4 Death Baron
$3.74 Creature - Zombie Wizard 2 2 21-Feb-2019 17:43
4 Diregraf Ghoul
$0.04 Creature - Zombie 2 2 21-Feb-2019 17:43
2 Doom Whisperer
$1.75 Creature - Nightmare Demon 6 6 22-Feb-2019 06:31
4 Gutterbones
$0.38 Creature - Skeleton Warrior 2 1 21-Feb-2019 17:43
1 Lotleth Giant
$0.26 Creature - Zombie Giant 6 5 22-Feb-2019 06:18
4 Midnight Reaper
$0.26 Creature - Zombie Knight 3 2 21-Feb-2019 18:26
2 Molderhulk
$0.13 Creature - Fungus Zombie 6 6 03-Mar-2019 11:14
4 Priest of Forgotten Gods
$1.70 Creature - Human Cleric 1 2 21-Feb-2019 18:26
4 Reassembling Skeleton
$0.13 Creature - Skeleton Warrior 1 1 21-Feb-2019 17:43
4 Stitcher's Supplier
$0.36 Creature - Zombie 1 1 21-Feb-2019 17:43
Instant (4)
2 Mausoleum Secrets
$0.67 Instant 22-Feb-2019 06:13
2 Necrotic Wound
$0.05 Instant 22-Feb-2019 06:13
Sorcery (12)
2 Awaken the Erstwhile
$0.37 Sorcery 22-Feb-2019 06:21
4 Creeping Chill
$0.17 Sorcery 22-Feb-2019 06:31
4 Discovery // Dispersal
$0.09 Sorcery // Instant // 22-Feb-2019 06:31
2 Find // Finality
$0.09 Sorcery // Sorcery // 25-Feb-2019 04:20
Planeswalker (4)
4 Liliana, Untouched by Death
$1.70 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana 21-Feb-2019 17:45
Land (24)
1 Memorial to Folly
$0.10 Land 25-Feb-2019 04:20
4 Overgrown Tomb
$11.10 Land - Swamp Forest 25-Feb-2019 04:20
13 Swamp
$0.10 Basic Land - Swamp 03-Mar-2019 11:14
2 Watery Grave
$8.77 Land - Island Swamp 03-Mar-2019 11:14
4 Woodland Cemetery
$0.68 Land 25-Feb-2019 04:20
Sideboard - 94 cards, 72 distinct
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Creature (36)
4 Barrier of Bones
$0.08 Creature - Skeleton Wall 0 3 21-Feb-2019 20:33
1 Blood Operative
$0.14 Creature - Vampire Assassin 3 1 22-Feb-2019 06:33
1 Bone Dragon
$0.49 Creature - Dragon Skeleton 5 4 21-Feb-2019 18:43
1 Demon of Catastrophes
$0.24 Creature - Demon 6 6 21-Feb-2019 16:57
1 Demonlord Belzenlok
$0.32 Legendary Creature - Elder Demon 6 6 21-Feb-2019 17:03
4 Dread Shade
$0.13 Creature - Shade 3 3 21-Feb-2019 18:43
1 Glowspore Shaman
$0.05 Creature - Elf Shaman 3 1 21-Feb-2019 16:43
1 Golgari Findbroker
$0.09 Creature - Elf Shaman 3 4 21-Feb-2019 18:21
1 Golgari Raiders
$0.05 Creature - Elf Warrior 0 0 21-Feb-2019 16:43
1 Gravedigger
$0.07 Creature - Zombie 2 2 22-Feb-2019 06:10
1 Graveyard Marshal
$0.17 Creature - Zombie Soldier 3 2 21-Feb-2019 17:44
1 Isareth the Awakener
$0.14 Legendary Creature - Human Wizard 3 3 21-Feb-2019 16:54
1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
$0.25 Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman 2 3 21-Feb-2019 18:21
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
$0.26 Legendary Creature - Zombie Knight 4 5 21-Feb-2019 17:44
1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
$0.21 Legendary Creature - Human Shaman 2 2 21-Feb-2019 18:21
1 Kitesail Freebooter
$0.11 Creature - Human Pirate 1 2 21-Feb-2019 18:25
1 Knight of Malice
$0.15 Creature - Human Knight 2 2 21-Feb-2019 16:51
1 Narcomoeba
$0.26 Creature - Illusion 1 1 25-Feb-2019 04:16
1 Phylactery Lich
$0.15 Creature - Zombie 5 5 21-Feb-2019 17:44
1 Plaguecrafter
$0.40 Creature - Human Shaman 3 2 21-Feb-2019 16:55
1 Ravenous Chupacabra
$0.36 Creature - Beast Horror 2 2 21-Feb-2019 16:48
1 Ruthless Knave
$0.26 Creature - Orc Pirate 3 2 21-Feb-2019 16:55
1 Seekers' Squire
$0.03 Creature - Human Scout 1 2 22-Feb-2019 06:43
1 Tattered Mummy
$0.09 Creature - Zombie Jackal 1 2 21-Feb-2019 17:44
3 Tetzimoc, Primal Death
$0.62 Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur 6 6 22-Feb-2019 06:10
1 The Haunt of Hightower
$2.32 Legendary Creature - Vampire 3 3 21-Feb-2019 17:04
1 Underrealm Lich
$6.50 Creature - Zombie Elf Shaman 4 3 21-Feb-2019 17:44
1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
$0.16 Legendary Creature - Human Cleric 2 2 21-Feb-2019 18:28
Instant (13)
1 Abnormal Endurance
$0.14 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:50
1 Assassin's Trophy
$2.18 Instant 21-Feb-2019 18:13
1 Bedevil
$0.50 Instant 21-Feb-2019 17:42
1 Carnival // Carnage
$0.06 Instant // Sorcery // 21-Feb-2019 17:42
1 Cast Down
$0.22 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:49
1 Costly Plunder
$0.15 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:51
1 Dark Bargain
$0.03 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:56
1 Moment of Craving
$0.10 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:52
1 Murder
$0.03 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:53
1 Price of Fame
$0.11 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:58
1 Status // Statue
$0.08 Instant // Instant // 21-Feb-2019 17:51
1 Vona's Hunger
$4.20 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:56
1 Vraska's Contempt
$0.32 Instant 21-Feb-2019 16:49
Sorcery (24)
1 Bankrupt in Blood
$0.19 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 16:50
1 Divest
$0.06 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 17:04
3 Drill Bit
$0.12 Sorcery 25-Feb-2019 04:21
4 Duress
$0.14 Sorcery 22-Feb-2019 06:07
1 Enter the Unknown
$0.33 Sorcery 22-Feb-2019 06:42
2 Golden Demise
$0.10 Sorcery 22-Feb-2019 06:07
2 Gruesome Menagerie
$0.14 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 18:46
1 Liliana's Spoils
$0.29 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 16:57
1 Mastermind's Acquisition
$0.77 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 18:44
1 Recover
$0.06 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 16:55
1 Revival // Revenge
$0.36 Sorcery // Sorcery // 21-Feb-2019 17:42
1 Rise from the Grave
$0.06 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 17:02
1 Ritual of Soot
$0.25 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 16:58
1 Severed Strands
$0.05 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 16:53
1 Vicious Rumors
$0.25 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 17:04
1 Walk the Plank
$0.10 Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 16:53
1 Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
$0.31 Legendary Sorcery 21-Feb-2019 17:03
Artifact (5)
1 Desecrated Tomb
$0.98 Artifact 25-Feb-2019 04:17
4 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
$0.37 Artifact // Land 22-Feb-2019 06:06
Enchantment (11)
2 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
$0.29 Legendary Enchantment // Legendary Land 22-Feb-2019 06:06
1 Dead Weight
$0.04 Enchantment - Aura 21-Feb-2019 16:49
1 Lich's Mastery
$0.49 Legendary Enchantment 21-Feb-2019 17:03
1 Liliana's Contract
$1.80 Enchantment 21-Feb-2019 17:01
1 Open the Graves
$0.41 Enchantment 21-Feb-2019 18:27
1 Path of Discovery
$0.49 Enchantment 22-Feb-2019 06:42
1 Phyrexian Scriptures
$0.78 Enchantment - Saga 21-Feb-2019 16:58
1 Revel in Riches
$15.52 Enchantment 21-Feb-2019 17:02
2 The Eldest Reborn
$0.35 Enchantment - Saga 21-Feb-2019 20:54
Land (5)
1 Blood Crypt
$17.10 Land - Swamp Mountain 21-Feb-2019 18:22
3 Cabal Stronghold
$12.52 Land 25-Feb-2019 04:20
1 Dragonskull Summit
$0.91 Land 21-Feb-2019 18:22

Notes
 
This was kind of interesting musing. It's always good to revisit old themes at the 6 set mark. I think there is a collective idead that mon black is not good because it wasn't build able when m19 came out, but liliana does a lot of work if we have the right support. She self-mills with incidental value (needing about 22 zombies to be consistent), she can kill a creature, and she has an "ultimate" that is immediately available, which can "reanimate your graveyard" in the right build. To build around her we need cheap/ good zombies, self mill, and some other payoffs. Diregraf ghoul fits the bill, as does death baron. If we expand out to skeletons we gets barrier of bones (self mill), gutter bones, and reassembling skeleton. The skeleton's have their own reanimation clauses, so act as a fail safe for consistency. Awaken the erstwhile is a symetrical payoff that most players can't evaluate correctly. Sending everyone into topdeck mode is not a small ability, and if you can break the parity on the tokens it's advantageous. The nube way is just having more cards than your opponent. What's better is having graveyard based interactions and having better zombies. I can recur most of my discarded cards, and with a death baron in play my zombies are 3/3 death touch, which swing through and block their tokens just fine. All that's left is to build the deck to make this happen consistently, and top deck better than other decks.

There's a couple directions to take this at that point. There's a combo approach that utilizes cards like midnight reaper, priest of the forgotten gods, whisper, blood liturgist, desecrated tomb, and open the graves to grind out advantage and recover faster. Gutterbones and reassembling skeleton make these cards great. We can go straight mono black, which opens up cabal stronghold, dread shade, mastermind's acquisition, and Tetzimoc. We can splash red for Judith, carnival/carnage, and bedevil. We can splash green for molder hulk(best payoff), Izoni, find broker (and the back door loop), status/Statue, and assasin's trophy. Color splash comes with more damage and fail rate.

We should be able to develop an aggressive curve to present as a clocking deck, and then close out in the mid game(precluding a late game). A couple of issues are light card selection/advantage (will require deck consideration), self damage and limited recovery (can be built around but will weaken synergies), and a particular weakness to flyers which is a real liability in the current meta as we hope to trade some amount of zombies for their creatures. We do get to run the golden demise which helps this a bit. Should be an ineresting build. Priest of the forgotten gods seems like it can be truly busted in the right builds.

I'm exploring the mon-black build first, as it seems the most explosive and consistent.The gutter bones/reassembling skeleton+ Priest of the forgotten gods/midnight reaper package is powerful and cool, solves the card flow issue and get more value out of having the skeletons present. Using the priest, necrotic wound, duress, liliana, eldest reborn, tetzimoc, and gloden demise as our board control, siding in other options ofr the matchup as necessary. The sac effects couple with tetzimoc should maintain board control, and duress+erstwhile should be hand. Might need more hand d against control. Death Baron, Mausoleum secrets, and treasure map tie the room together. Not sure how many Lotleth giant, Bone dragon, doom whisperer, dread shade, Gruesome menagerie, Mastermind's acquisition, arguel's bloodfast, and memorial to folly we want. We need enough creatures to mill 4-6 early, and again we're trying to get to 22 zombies. Combined with undergrowth cards, I think we're looking at 26-28 creatures. We have a strange low and curve, and a lot of mana sinks, so it feels like we want to run 24 land. That leaves 8-10 non creature spots... shave a land, get down to 25 creatures and mill spells? Would give us 12 noncreature, which feels more so able.

The self-mill is almost there to be really good. Combo-ing priest, liliana, and creeping chill seems degenerate. It almost seems like you could bill a strong self mill engine with liliana, and have a tight combo and a strong tribal plan B. The question is there enough overlap where both can fit into the same deck without significant cost to either strategy and still have room for the in-between payoff cards that synergize with both strategies, such as creeping chill, narcomeoba, desecrated tomb, and awaken the erstwhile?

So cabal stronghold sucks mostly always. Mono black is less appelaing, which begs the question of which splash is worth it. I think it is easily molderhulk. The card should be a 2cmc 6/6 that synergizes with both zombies and self mill on the lilianna ultimate we can chain them from the graveyard. Makes memorial better, and it's an easy splash.
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