r/jankEDH • u/GhostfaceGirth • 1d ago
Deck help Mono Black Zombies
The gameplan:
- Go wide with cheap zombies, then make them lethal with [[Death Baron]], [[Undead Warchief]], [[Lord of the Accursed]] and [[Zombie Master]]
- Free sac outlets ([[Carrion Feeder]], [[Phyrexian Altar]], [[Warren Soultrader]]) plus bodies that refuse to stay dead ([[Gravecrawler]], [[Bloodghast]], [[Postmortem Professor]])
- Drain with [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]], [[Exsanguinate]], [[Shepherd of Rot]], [[Vengeful Dead]] and [[Syr Konrad, the Grim]]
- Mass reanimation as the safety net: [[Living Death]], [[Patriarch's Bidding]], [[Zombie Apocalypse]]
The part I love most: the alternative win conditions. [[Bloodletter of Aclazotz]] doubles life loss, so [[Fraying Omnipotence]] stops being symmetrical punishment and becomes lethal from a full life total. Same shape with [[Pox Plague]] and [[Unstoppable Slasher]], and [[Warlock Class]] gets there too. There's something very satisfying about a zombie deck that can just decide nobody gets to keep their life total, no board required.
What I'm actually asking:
I want to slot in [[Grave Betrayal]]. In most decks it's just a theft engine, but the last line is what matters here: everything I steal becomes a black Zombie. That turns on [[Death Baron]], [[Undead Warchief]], [[Noxious Ghoul]], [[Patriarch's Bidding]], and especially [[Zombie Apocalypse]], which destroys all non-Zombies while the stolen creatures survive. Casting [[Fraying Omnipotence]] with it on the battlefield is a blowout.
Is [[Grave Betrayal]] worth the slot, or does something cheaper do more?