#FOOTLIGHT FIEND DEATHTOUCH FREE#
Like I said before, you can always cast it on your own Nested Shambler if you feel like it’s a dead card in that game or situation or when going wide would benefit you.ĭefile is a classic staple in anything that runs a lot of swamps, so naturally I’m going to run it here since Witch’s Cottage counts as a swamp (even though I consider it a free recursion spell). Nameless Inversion kills a lot of things and even Affinity has reason to fear, thanks to the +3/-3 a lowly 1/1 can take out the trash and Lazotep Reaver can live to tell the tale. Anyways, let’s talk about the tribal instant in the room. If I were to play this against Chatterstorm, I’d cut a snuff out and suffocating fumes for 2 Echoing Decay. The removal package is not as good as it should be in this meta game, and the deck you see is one that lives in a world without Chatterstorm.
Hexproof is always a tricky matchup, but once you bring in your Geth Verdicts, having 2 Marauders in the main should make it a fair game. Sometimes the best line is just to sac itself, but since it’s a zombie, you can get a lot of mileage from Fleshbag Marauder.
With proper management, and a bit of luck, Fleshbag Marauder can be your best creature. The three drop creature in this list is straight up removal on a stick. The best thing about cycling is the fact that it’s uncounterable and Gempalm Polluter can be the proverbial “nail in the coffin” for your opponent. You will, however, use its cycling ability to draw a card and drain your opponent for each zombie in play. Let’s be honest about Gempalm Polluter and get the obvious out of the way… you’re never going to cast Gempalm Polluter. Which, by now you know, we can do multiple times a game if you bring it back from the graveyard. Being a zombie creature itself is nice since you get a ½ and a 1/1 zombie that grows every time you cast another Lazotep Reaver. Lazotep Reaver has a good rate for a 2 drop thanks to its ability to amass a zombie. Afterall, you can only unearth it once, and then it’s gone for good. Although Dregscape has the ability to recur itself from the graveyard thanks to its unearth ability, that doesn’t mean you should be shy about using your other recursion on it instead. Dregscape Zombie & Lazotep Reaver will most likely be your targets for recursion. The next two zombies are what I refer to as, “the cream of the graveyard”. While it’s a slight downgrade in that department, the benefits of freeing up a card slot or two make up for it. While the go to zombie in this slot has traditionally been Festering Mummy, known for its ability to put a -1/-1 counter on target creature and opponent controls when it dies, Shambling Ghast can only give target creature an opponent controls -1/-1 until end of turn. While this mana is only usable once, the fact that the deck has a low curve and decent card draw means we can cheat on lands by a swamp or two. The only reason the deck can function on 19 lands is because of Shambling Ghast’s ability to create a treasure token when it dies. For two mana you get 4 1/1 green squirrel tokens at instant speed if you do this. Another interesting interaction is when you cast Nameless Inversion targeting Nested Shambler. Carrion Feeder can be huge if you can chain multiple Nested Shamblers into Ghoulcaller’s Chant. These one drop zombies work great in tandem with Carrion Feeder (another one drop zombie) and all the recursion the deck has.
My 75 currently looks like this:įrom the last two sets Zombies has gotten Nested Shambler and Shambling Ghast. Pauper zombies run their recursion package in three forms: Ghoulcaller’s Chant, Dregscape Zombie, and Witch’s Cottage. Because of this, you’ll see Carrion Feeder in a lot of lists because it can be aggressive and feed on your other zombies as you keep bringing them back from the grave. To get around this, most zombie builds in pauper rely on the massive amount of recursion available. Zombies as a tribe in pauper has no real “lord” they can deploy like in other formats. It’s still missing that one important card that can allow it to compete at the top tier level, but it’s still a good deck to play in small local tournaments. Since then the deck has slowly been getting pieces to make it better. Kendra Smith, renowned Elves player and pauper columnist, wrote a report on the event here. I’ve always had a zombie deck built ever since it had a top 8 finish in the Pauper MCQ held in Los Angeles back in 2019.
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