Modern Mondays: B/W Zombie Midrange

Hello everyone, Shawn here from Red Battle Games LLC in Danville, Virginia and today, I'll be sharing a deck tech of a deck made by Stephen Fowler and Dylan Spence. It was put together for Stephen to pilot at Friday Night Magic.

    

B/W Zombie Midrange

Creatures x3 Gravecrawler x3 Bloodghast x3 Tidehollow Sculler x3 Geralf’s Messenger x2 Cemetery Reaper x2 Restoration Angel Land x4 Godless Shrine x2 Isolated Chapel x2 Flooded Strand x4 Marsh Flats x2 Polluted Delta x3 Mutavault x2 Ghost Quarter x1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth x1 Plains x1 Swamp	Planeswalkers x2 Lilliana Of the Veil x2 Sorin, Solemn Visitor Other Spells x2 Duress x2 Inquistion of Kozilek x4 Path to Exile x3 Thoughtseize x1 Victim of the Night x2 Dismember x3 Lingering Souls
Sideboard x3 Deathmark x2 Disenchant x2 Smother x3 Surgical Extraction x3 Zealous Persecution x2 Wrath of God

As you can see, the deck is a type of midrange deck. It primarily runs a slew of hand disruption and creatures, but these creatures never want to die. With just a single land, you'll either get a zombie on the field or take a card from your opponent. With Gravecrawler, Cemetary Reaper, and Geralf’s Messenger, you'll have no problem with getting creatures onto the battlefield. Bloodghast is just as easy with resurrecting from just playing a land. Restoration Angel is here to simply replay Geralf's Messenger and put some more pressure on your opponent.

    

Tidehollow Sculler is here for the hand disruption which there already is a slew of cards that can easily pick a hand apart piece by piece to just leave an opponent with nothing. Between your Thoughtseize, Duress, and Inquisition, the opponent will have a hard time The kill spells are simple and help deal with aggro decks during the early game along with any pesky cards that are just ravaging the already hurt life total from all of the fetch and shocklands.

    

With regard to the planeswalkers, I have never seen such a perfect couple. In this deck list, Sorin and Liliana might as well be husband and wife with how well they are in sync. Sorin’s +1 ability is just phenomenal with life gain and +1/+0 to your creatures. Liliana helps out with the opponent's hand or a pesky creature or two on your opponent's side. The synchronicity of the creatures and planeswalkers just show how Modern is always going to have new ideas and brutal decks that will always be changing.

  

The sideboard is primarily made to go against aggro decks and decks with graveyard hate. This deck relies on the graveyard to get creatures back and discard spells targeting your opponent, so a Leyline of Sanctity or Grafdigger's Cage could simply put this deck at a stand still. Luckily, the Disenchants and such are for those specific cards that just hurt it.

My final note about this deck is that I completely love it. The synergy of the cards are such that you really can’t change one thing without doing a complete revision of the deck. You could change it and go full control with just Restoration Angel and Geralf's Messenger. I agree with Stephen's assessment that it is missing a huge piece: draw power. If you have any ideas, perhaps you could tell me in the comments below what to exchange for draw in order to give this deck some major tempo.

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