Quote (jtweeds @ 21 Mar 2022 12:52)
That’s great! Welcome back! I’d love to see the list
Glad you asked!
Its a standard deck
The Deck is a Black Zombie deck with a Green zombie splash. The deck is a face hella aggro deck that expects to curve a strong 1,2,3,4 and get so far ahead once they try to catch up I can replay all the cards due to the zombie resurrection play I have. The deck gets incredible value off the cards I use because many times i can bounce cards back from my graveyard or bounce them back into my hand to replay. The Deck works best when i get my 1 drop Zombie and then Jadar to start pumping creatures that I can sacrifice to fully enable the deck. A Key card is the zombie scorpion insanely good card a 3/2 deathtouch draw 2 cards for 3 mana is incredibly broken. The card stops opponents dead in their tracks because of the deathtouch and with so many ways to get them back I can draw lots of cards if the train gets going. The Finisher in the deck is two dragons. Dracolich is Ridiculous because he is basically a 5/2 flash haste flyer that I cast at the end of the opponents turn for the extra wow effect and it makes it immune to sorceries. Then with jadar and me killing off my zombies every turn I can just re summon Dracolich from the graveyard giving me insane value on the card. Junji is the other dragon finisher I have and that card is just an amazing card for value and for a finisher. its a 5/5 flying with menace which means they need 2 flyers to block and if they kill it I get another creature back from either your or my graveyard (I have gotten back the 7 mana big Slugs before, its jokes) or if Im ahead I can make you discard and then get it back to my hand and play it again. The deck when its working and the draws are coming hits hard and doesnt slow down.
The only real weakness to the deck is of course getting a bad start or mainly exile cards. The new white card that exiles my graveyard in particular fucks the deck hard.
I keep green in the deck just for the one changeling guy because its a 2 mana kill an artifact or enchantment and has zombie synergy so its just too good to not put in my deck.
The whole point of the deck is to have only swing cards, a lot fo cards I can get 2 for 1 value off of.
There were many iterations as I climbed, removing cards and testing other versions as i hit spots where I would get stuck. I have made it to legend in hearthstone many times and it is essentially the same ranking system with different naming conventions so there is a meta to climbing. When you are climbing usually several times you will hit pockets of a certain deck archetype, this is because simply different decks (especially meta decks) have different limits to how high the deck can achieve on the ranking system based on player skill. So a bunch of plat level players will have their black white angel deck all stuck in a pocket at plat 2 for example. Or a player of the same skill will have his green enchantment deck top out at plat 1 simply because of his skill level to use the deck. If the same player was better by a large margin in magic, then yes they could get over the hump but that skill gap is large so many people trying to reach that level of skill all get stuck in this spot. This happens in Magic and in hearthstone, There are multiple ways to address these pockets. The Easiest being make a deck that counters those pockets of deck archetypes then switch back to your main deck. This works, especially in hearthstone. in Magic though becuase you get 60 cards in your deck and side boards, it can be simpler to adjust the deck as you go rather than build a whole deck to counter this archetype. Using another deck is a lot of fun though of course, 1 deck can get boring and stressful.
I chose to alter my zombie deck as I climbed, main reason to adjust to certain pockets of decks where I might need more enchant destruction or other pockets where I might need to make my deck faster because I am in a pocket of control etc... This resulted in many tinkered versions and Ideas that I tried to test as I climbed, resulting in many failed attempts before my final product. I wouldnt even say my deck is 100% optimized but since my latest additions and adjustments the deck certainly was pushed over the top of the diamond 1 slump I was in for a couple days..
here are all the versions that I went through until the final product:
This is the current version I am still playing around with the Bishop being in the deck its legit just a 2 body 3/4 for 3 mana which is op in itself I never play for his abilities he usually just ends up being 2 bodies I can sacrifice.. You can sideboard more jarls or whatever u want instead of the bishop tbh
March so the wretched sorrow provides much needed life for aggro matchups but that card can be switched out it also doesnt synergize the best due to exiling cards in a pinch instead of discarding which would make the card wayyyy better for the deck.
ya let me know what you think and any questions about how the deck works
You are pretty much hard mulliganing for jadar or a 1/2/3 play with the scorpion to draw cards. Double champion is a strong start too especially with headless horserider.
The deck operates essentially on 3 mana, obv you want 4 mana for dracolich but you will win games without him.. and you will even win some games with only 2 mana on turn 6 or 7 getting land screwed just because of so many strong 1 and 2 cost spells.
you can always discard the dragons and get them back later when you need to discard for the dubachi dude. That card is fucking insane for a 2 drop.
Mana can get a little bit tricky sometimes you just need to make sure the flip land is green when you have another black source that way there isnt an issue when you do draw the changeling
The combination of the jarl and the dubachi makes it so if the opponent blocks or doesnt block the decayed zombies constantyl attacking they still get fucked. its so strong and when you can play the dubachi so then they start blocking then you just jarl them its hilarious insta concedes.
TBH jadar is the Engine of the deck it requires so much sacrifice that when he is able to stay alive for 3 or 4 turns and make you zombies to sac you get so much value its pretty much gg. Horse Rider is really good because you can sac him and he gives you another zombie to sac/ a blocker. The Bishop gives you a sac as well, and synergizes with jadar hilariously some somties you get 1/1's even when jadar dies.
This post was edited by Crunkt on Mar 21 2022 11:56am