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Grimgrin Zombies Mk.II
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Est deck cost: $888.92
Salt sum: 49.7
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Commander

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Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Grimgrin enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Creature
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (isd) 214

Commander

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Pump

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Bladestitched Skaab

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

Creature
Bladestitched Skaab (mid) 212
Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Cemetery Reaper (mic) 108
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (dds) 58
Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Death Baron (mic) 111
Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Diregraf Captain (mic) 148
Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Accursed (mic) 124
Lord of the Undead

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lord of the Undead (10e) 155
Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature
Undead Warchief (hop) 44

Pump

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (uma) 93
Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (2xm) 255
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (cmr) 156

Tutor

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Countermagic

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Instant
Countersquall (uma) 198
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94

Countermagic

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (plst) ELD-331
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clb) 857
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
Paradise Mantle

Equipped creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Equip {1}

Artifact
Paradise Mantle (mma) 211
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (mic) 103
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (plst) CMD-261
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (clb) 877

Ramp

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Draw

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Cryptbreaker

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Cryptbreaker (emn) 86
Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (moc) 220
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature
Graveborn Muse (10e) 145
Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Insight (6ed) 75
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (mic) 130
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (mh1) 116

Draw

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Removal

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Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Instant
Banishing Knack (eve) 17
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Murderous Rider

Creature
Murderous Rider // Swift End (moc) 258
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (ltc) 23
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (c21) 126
Retraction Helix

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Instant
Retraction Helix (a25) 71

Removal

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Good Zombies

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Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of the Perished (mid) 91
Gravecrawler

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (2x2) 78
Gravespawn Sovereign

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Gravespawn Sovereign (mic) 120
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 (thb) 99
Lich Lord of Unx

{U}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 blue and black Zombie Wizard creature token. {U}{U}{B}{B}: Target player loses X life and mills X cards, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature
Lich Lord of Unx (arb) 24
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (uma) 106
Unbreathing Horde

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard. If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Creature
Unbreathing Horde (ddq) 66
Undead Alchemist

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player mills that many cards. Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their library, exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Undead Alchemist (mic) 105
Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature
Zombie Master (me4) 105

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Token Army

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Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Diregraf Colossus (mic) 112
Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (mic) 116
Headless Rider

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Headless Rider (vow) 118
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Lifelink If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

Creature
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet (ogw) 86
Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie you control enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Enchantment
Necroduality (vow) 70
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, if it didn't have decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a Zombie. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (mic) 2

Token Army

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (c19) 238
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
Dismal Backwater

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

Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Esper Panorama (ncc) 399
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (cmm) 993
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (moc) 400
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Grixis Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Grixis Panorama (ncc) 407
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (moc) 418
Port of Karfell

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Land
Port of Karfell (clb) 908
Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Land
Rivendell (ltr) 259
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (cmm) 426
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (neo) 275
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Shire Terrace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Shire Terrace (sld) 1296
Snow-Covered Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Island (khm) 278
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 280
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (moc) 431
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (cmm) 1050
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Unholy Grotto

{T}: Add {C}. {B}, {T}: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Unholy Grotto (plst) ONS-327
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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Token Payoffs

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Dictate of Erebos

Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (jou) 65
Empty the Laboratory

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Empty the Laboratory (mic) 14
Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (cm2) 65
The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. {2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scarab God (2xm) 216

Token Payoffs

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Otherwise, use them like very powerful cantrips to set yourself up for later."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Both snow and non-snow basics are included to help diversify the landbase for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Field of the Dead"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Your wincons include (but are not limited to) sacrificing loads of tokens to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blasting Station"}},{"insert":", making your army massive with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Coat of Arms"}},{"insert":", bypassing a stalled boardstate with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Raise the Palisade"}},{"insert":", repeatedly activating "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lich Lord of Unx"}},{"insert":", or making Grimgrin a voltron threat."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zombie Master"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth"}},{"insert":" is a 2-card combo that makes your entire board unblockable."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gravespawn Sovereign"}},{"insert":" can take cards from your opponents' graveyards, and can do it at instant speed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Expedition Map"}},{"insert":" is usually looking for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Field of the Dead"}},{"insert":" - however, with a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zombie Master"}},{"insert":" in play, you can use it to find "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth"}},{"insert":" to make your board unblockable. It's also good mana fixing, and excellent anti-blue tech if you also put in "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cavern of Souls"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"POTENTIAL UPGRADES"},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cavern of Souls"}},{"insert":" --> Really powerful anti-blue tool for tribal decks, or decks that really want to play their commander. This deck is both."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Yawgmoth's Will"}},{"insert":" --> You won't be able to combo the turn you play it, but it can get you back in the game instantly if you're running on topdecks with an empty board."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Polluted Delta"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Watery Grave"}},{"insert":" --> Useful mana fixing."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Phyrexian Tower"}},{"insert":" --> You'll probably have some fodder that's worth sacrificing for an extra mana. If you don't no biggie, cause it can still add {C}."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Necropotence"}},{"insert":" --> You really can't do better for keeping a full hand of cards in black."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cyclonic Rift"}},{"insert":" --> Premiere wrath in dimir colours that can also represent a win condition in the same way as Raise the Palisade."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urza's Incubator"}},{"insert":" --> Very good mana efficiency in a tribal deck."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"POTENTIAL SIDEGRADES"},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Swan Song"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dispel"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Intervene"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stubborn Denial"}},{"insert":" --> If you find that you need more defensive countermagic, these will serve you well. However, I think a more diverse and well-rounded package is better, so I've chosen that route."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cabal Coffers"}},{"insert":" --> Cabal Coffers + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth"}},{"insert":" is a powerful combo. I've omitted it to build a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Field of the Dead"}},{"insert":"-centric manabase. If this appeals more to you, cut a ton of utility lands for basic swamps."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Trailblazer's Boots"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Prowler's Helm"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Whispersilk Cloak"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sting, the Glinting Dagger"}},{"insert":" --> Some premiere equipment for if you want to lean more heavily into voltron with Grimgrin. (Note: To focus exclusively on glass-cannon-style voltron wins, the deck would need a soft/medium rebuild. As it stands, this is merely one facet of the deck, which is predominantly zombie tribal)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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