Here's another deck that I just put together and went undefeated (4-0) on the ladder.
The idea started out with a suicide rakdos deck to do the "10 creatures leave the Cemetery quest", but this version gained a life of its own and branched out independantly from the original idea. So what's it all about? Recurring undead.
Almond-cat has got plenty of Discard outlets and madness cards are all very well and good, but discarding them is a 1-time opportunity for value/card advantage, but discarding stuff like Scrounger... That's long-term value. Almond-cat happens to give us a new extra scrounger 1 drop, Add in the usual restless dead suspects and voilá! All you need now is some agressive Discard outlets, the awesome rakdos removal suite and lilly.
The walking dead
Creature(24)
1 x Sanitarium Skeleton
2 x Dread Wanderer
2 x Scrapheap Scrounger
2 x Asylum Visitor
2 x Miasmic Mummy
3 x Bloodrage Brawler
2 x Plague Belcher
2 x Prized Amalgam
1 x Liliana, Heretical Healer
1 x Olivia, Mobilized for War
2 x Haunted Dead
2 x Bloodhall Priest
1 x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 x Hazoret the Fervent
Instant(8)
3 x Fatal Push
3 x Fiery Temper
2 x Unlicensed Disintegration
Split(1)
1 x Cut
Planeswalker(1)
1 x Liliana, the Last Hope
Artifact(4)
2 x Key to the City
2 x Smuggler's Copter
Land(22)
2 x Smoldering Marsh
7 x Swamp
7 x Mountain
2 x Dragonskull Summit
2 x Cinder Barrens
2 x Aether Hub
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Unfortunately, Almond-cat has the answer to this deck with the graveyard exile stuff, but those cards aren't very popular atm. The deck won against izzet Burn (who said fire is good versus the undead?) , selesnya humans (too much good removal), zombie tokens (removal + removal-resistant dudes pulled it off) and Gruul ramp (deck can go very fast and is a beast in top-decking mode).
Cards that stand out: Plague Belcher. Dropping this T2 can really ruin your opponent's day. Against the selesnya deck, my opponent had to ditch always Watching (yes!) and it totally messed up his game plan, where I just ditched a Scrounger without a care. This is a very strong hand-hate card and good early against most decks. I had a full set initially, but had to cut something for the goodstuff... Later on it can still be good if your opponent is holding up removal or sweepers, but it can be a madness freebie for him too, still at least you get to choose when.
The amalgams are only hard castable with the hubs, so you may need to use your energy sparingly. But with 6 undead, who don't like staying dead... No worries! I'm actually thinking about splashing a little more blue and adding good ol' forgotten Gisa and Geralf for some more added graveyard shenanigans (including at least 1 fleshbag)
Plague Belcher is a mini sub-theme in that there is moderation zombie synergy, but the real idea is to give the tokens to a recurrable guy and beatdown with a 3cc 5/4 menace.
Cut to ribbons is removal and a finisher. Hasn't come up yet, but its an ok card to Discard now to use later.
Btw, the Skeleton is an awesome Copter pilot! He just won't stay dead...
Enjoy!
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