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Zul Ashur's Zestless Zombies
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $568.84
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Commander

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Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.) {T}: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord (fdn) 464

Commander

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Mill

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Grindstone

{3}, {T}: Target player mills two cards. If two cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.

Artifact
Grindstone (otp) 62
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
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Stitcher's Supplier (j22) 472
Undead Butler

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) When this creature dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Undead Butler (vow) 133

Mill

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Tokens

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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

Tokens

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Anthem

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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
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 (scd) 88
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 (mb2) 188

Anthem

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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 (scd) 257
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on this artifact. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on this artifact. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (mic) 55
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (3ed) 99
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 346
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (lcc) 309
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (scd) 276
Undead Warchief

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

Creature
Undead Warchief (tsb) 52
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (scd) 287

Ramp

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426
Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Vile Entomber (mh2) 403

Tutor

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Drain

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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
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 (scd) 80
Plague Belcher

Menace When this creature enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Plague Belcher (akh) 104
Shepherd of Rot

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

Creature
Shepherd of Rot (ons) 168

Drain

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Recursion

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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
Ill-Gotten Gains

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Sorcery
Ill-Gotten Gains (cns) 114
Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death's Majesty (j22) 433
Liliana, Untouched by Death

+1: Mill three cards. If at least one Zombie card is milled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control. −3: You may cast Zombie spells from your graveyard this turn.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Untouched by Death (scd) 84
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 (8ed) 141
Lost Monarch of Ifnir

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) Other Zombies you control have afflict 3. At the beginning of your second main phase, if a player was dealt combat damage by a Zombie this turn, mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lost Monarch of Ifnir (drc) 27
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (otp) 18
Rot Hulk

Menace When this creature enters, return up to X target Zombie cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of opponents you have.

Creature
Rot Hulk (drc) 98
Sidisi, Regent of the Mire

{T}, Sacrifice a creature you control with mana value X other than Sidisi: Return target creature card with mana value X plus 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Sidisi, Regent of the Mire (tdm) 92
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (scd) 118
Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 281

Recursion

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Draw

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Archghoul of Thraben

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, look at the top card of your library. If it's a Zombie card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature
Archghoul of Thraben (vow) 93
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
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
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (afr) 94
Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature
Liliana's Standard Bearer (scd) 87
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (rvr) 80
Pact of the Serpent

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Pact of the Serpent (lcc) 206
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 283
Undead Augur

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

Creature
Undead Augur (scd) 114
Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (lcc) 316

Draw

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

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

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Deadly Rollick

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

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (scd) 77
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
Grave Pact

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

Enchantment
Grave Pact (wot) 73
Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Noxious Ghoul

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Noxious Ghoul (lgn) 77
Withered Wretch

{1}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature
Withered Wretch (scd) 120

Removal

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Land

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (jmp) 491
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (moc) 416
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 (lcc) 346
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (pf23) 3
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 358
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 272
The Dross Pits

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
The Dross Pits (one) 251
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
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
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (scg) 59
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110

Sac Outlet

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Create a huge board of zombies. Use Zul's ability to bring them back.\n"}]}
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