![]() 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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