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Poor Man's Zombies
Deck Size: 100
Pauper EDH
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Est deck cost: $43.97
Salt sum: 29.4
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Commander

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Ghost of Ramirez DePietro

Ghost of Ramirez DePietro can't be blocked by creatures with toughness 3 or greater. Whenever Ghost of Ramirez DePietro deals combat damage to a player, choose up to one target card in a graveyard that was discarded or put there from a library this turn. Put that card into its owner's hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Ghost of Ramirez DePietro (lcc) 157
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

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Land

Quantity: 37Price: $13.71
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (clu) 234
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Soured Springs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Soured Springs (otj) 264
Submerged Boneyard

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Submerged Boneyard (acr) 301
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284
Waterfront District

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterfront District (snc) 259

Land

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Artifact

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Ghoulcaller's Bell

{T}: Each player mills a card.

Artifact
Ghoulcaller's Bell (isd) 224

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Bitter Revelation

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Bitter Revelation (cmr) 109
Dirge of Dread

All creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.

Sorcery
Dirge of Dread (plst) A25-86
Dutiful Return

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Dutiful Return (bfz) 110
Ghoulcaller's Chant

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target Zombie cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Ghoulcaller's Chant (isd) 101
Gravedig

Choose one — • Target player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Gravedig (mh3) 96
Last Thoughts

Draw a card. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Last Thoughts (gtc) 40
Macabre Reconstruction

This spell costs {2} less to cast if a creature card was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn. Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Macabre Reconstruction (mkm) 93
Midnight Recovery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Midnight Recovery (gtc) 73
Pilfered Plans

Target player mills two cards. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Pilfered Plans (scd) 238
Reave Soul

Destroy target creature with power 3 or less.

Sorcery
Reave Soul (j22) 459
Taigam's Scheming

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Taigam's Scheming (ktk) 57
Thassa's Bounty

Draw three cards. Target player mills three cards.

Sorcery
Thassa's Bounty (ths) 67
Treason of Isengard

Put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library. Amass Orcs 2. (To amass Orcs 2, put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Sorcery
Treason of Isengard (ltr) 74

Sorcery

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Creature

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Amphin Pathmage

{2}{U}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Amphin Pathmage (plst) M15-45
Armored Skaab

When this creature enters, mill four cards.

Creature
Armored Skaab (isd) 43
Deranged Assistant

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Deranged Assistant (inr) 61
Draugr Thought-Thief

When this creature enters, look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into their graveyard.

Creature
Draugr Thought-Thief (j25) 305
Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (clu) 111
Forsaken Drifters

When this creature dies, mill four cards.

Creature
Forsaken Drifters (bng) 72
Gempalm Polluter

Cycling {B}{B} ({B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

Creature
Gempalm Polluter (plst) LGN-70
Gravedigger

When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Gravedigger (j25) 452
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Gurmag Angler

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

Creature
Gurmag Angler (plst) UMA-102
Headless Skaab

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. This creature enters tapped.

Creature
Headless Skaab (dka) 40
Jarl of the Forsaken

Flash When this creature enters, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn. Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Jarl of the Forsaken (khm) 100
Laboratory Brute

When this creature enters, mill four cards.

Creature
Laboratory Brute (plst) EMN-67
Makeshift Mauler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Creature
Makeshift Mauler (inr) 73
Mindwrack Harpy

Flying At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player mills three cards.

Creature Enchantment
Mindwrack Harpy (cmm) 869
Mire Triton

Deathtouch When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Mire Triton (cmm) 174
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 95
Returned Reveler

When this creature dies, each player mills three cards.

Creature
Returned Reveler (j22) 460
Screeching Skaab

When this creature enters, mill two cards.

Creature
Screeching Skaab (ema) 69
Shepherd of Rot

{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

Creature
Shepherd of Rot (plst) ONS-168
Skaab Goliath

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile two creature cards from your graveyard. Trample

Creature
Skaab Goliath (cmr) 97
Stitched Drake

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Flying

Creature
Stitched Drake (j25) 368
Vedalken Ghoul

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.

Creature
Vedalken Ghoul (arb) 32
Vengeful Dead

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Vengeful Dead (scd) 117

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Enchantment

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Chronic Flooding

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller mills three cards.

Enchantment
Chronic Flooding (rtr) 32
Crown of Suspicion

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/-1. Sacrifice this Aura: Enchanted creature and other creatures that share a creature type with it get +2/-1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Crown of Suspicion (ons) 134
Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Curse of the Bloody Tome (isd) 50
Stratus Walk

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.

Enchantment
Stratus Walk (ori) 77
Tricks of the Trade

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked.

Enchantment
Tricks of the Trade (m13) 74

Enchantment

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Instant

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Bone to Ash

Counter target creature spell. Draw a card.

Instant
Bone to Ash (m20) 48
Call for Blood

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant
Call for Blood (bok) 63
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Cruel Revival

Destroy target non-Zombie creature. It can't be regenerated. Return up to one target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Cruel Revival (scd) 73
Dig Up the Body

Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Dig Up the Body (snc) 76
Eviscerator's Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards. Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant
Eviscerator's Insight (mh3) 93
Fanatical Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Fanatical Offering (lci) 105
Feast or Famine

Choose one — • Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. • Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Feast or Famine (plst) DDJ-72
Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Forbidden Alchemy (inr) 65
Mindstatic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {6}.

Instant
Mindstatic (dgm) 14
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (j25) 467
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 99
Nocturnal Hunger

Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Destroy target creature. If the gift wasn't promised, you lose 2 life.

Instant
Nocturnal Hunger (blb) 102
Rakshasa's Disdain

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.

Instant
Rakshasa's Disdain (frf) 45
Repulse

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Repulse (woc) 107
Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Slice from the Shadows (mkm) 103
Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Soul Manipulation (plst) MM3-185
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (2x2) 65

Instant

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