Endless Ranks of the Dead

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FAIRxPOTAMUS on A Ghoulcallers Dream

2 weeks ago

BrianStacks check out this thing I just found. Soulless One I actually think about switching out Army of the Damned with this more cost effective option. Thirteen zombies sounds so cool though paired with Endless Ranks of the Dead. For instance if I have all 4 enchantments fielded and summon zombies, when upkeep comes around I’ll create half that four times, equaling 26, plus 13, equals 39. Next upkeep I’ll create half of that times 4, 78. Now I should have 117 zombies! Now if only I can field all 4 at once! :D

sanddeviljack on Anikthea

2 months ago

Out: Boon of the Spirit Realm, Crescendo of War, Endless Ranks of the Dead, Ghostblade Eidolon, Legion Loyalty, Nykthos Paragon, Sandwurm Convergence Unnatural Growth, Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

In: Selesnya Eulogist, Spirited Companion, Elvish Archivist, Seal of Cleansing, Grisly Salvage, Kruphix's Insight, Ajani's Welcome, Peace of Mind, Seal from Existence, Makeshift Binding, Prayer of Binding, Vessel of Nascency

Rakious07 on Upkeep Upkeep get your upkeep here

3 months ago

Also Bonehoard Dracosaur, Braids, Conjurer Adept, Charmbreaker Devils, Court of Embereth, Creeping Bloodsucker, Darksteel Reactor, Endless Ranks of the Dead, Feast on the Fallen, Galvanoth, Gate to the AEther, Goblin Assault, Guild Feud, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, Jhoira of the Ghitu, Mindsplice Apparatus, Portal to Phyrexia, Protection Racket, Quakebringer, Reality Strobe, Replicating Ring, Spawn of Mayhem, Struggle for Project Purity, Subversion, Tamiyo's Journal, & Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

ZebW98 on Gisa and Geralf - Modified/In Progress

11 months ago

The Scarab God’s Zombie Mania. This is my zombie deck, also based off of Gisa and Gralf precon, but heavily modified. I recommend that you take out some of your non land cards that won’t add much to the game I.e. Fleshbag Marauder. You need to have around 40 lands. 39 won’t kill you, but 36 is way too little. With Gisa and geralf, you are going to mill lands. It is a fact. So you have to have lands to spare. Also, cards to check out: Rooftop Storm, Endless Ranks of the Dead, Liliana, the Last Hope, Fact or Fiction, Dark Ritual, and any of the zombies or other cards on my deck. If you want, I would 10000% recommend The Scarab God who is my commander. If you can, put a tutor or two in. I have Illicit Shipment as one of mine. And for goodness sakes put Murder back in. That’s all. Good luck!

jarncards on Dead WOMan Walking

1 year ago

Fiend Artisan is green

I think Sidisi, Undead Vizier is awful unless you use a lot of reanimate effects, it's just so expensive to tutor. Geth, Lord of the Vault is crazy strong, but he's a totally different deck most of the time. I'd dump Liliana's Steward too. You and one other player go down a card, putting the rest of the table ahead of you by one card, but they also get to choose, so you're never going to get the card you want out of their hand.

Hobbling Zombie and other cards like it, like Putrid Goblin are excellent at keeping attacks away from you while you build up your board. and the pseudo revival effects let you abuse a lot of other zombie mechanics. Butcher Ghoul, and Geralf's Messenger or Doomed Dissenter are ok too. i wouldnt use Sightless Ghoul though. They are all better than Reassembling Skeleton though. Keep Relentless Dead. Im not sure if they make the cut, but they arent scary, but that means they are good at keeping a target off your back til youre readyfor one.

Magus of the Bridge is great for a non-zombie. Probably use it over Tainted Adversary, i feel like that one just costs way too much before its good. Dreadhorde Invasion is incredibly good, as is Mikaeus, the Unhallowed. i'd put those in for sure.Tormod, the Desecrator is still really good. Zombie Trailblazer is devastating to the person sitting to your left in particular or anyone playing five colors/ not black. When you REALLY need someone to not cast a spell. make all their lands swamps during the upkeep. almost every board wipe is a sorcery.

I think you might want to dump Thought Vessel for Mind Stone or even Blood Pet. In many cases discarding is beneficial to zombies. If you want to keep infinite hand size, Zombie Infestation and discard at will cards are pretty helpful.

I think Noxious Ghoul is the single best zombie card in the game, in this deck it basically says, tap your commander, wipe everyone else's boards. Use it.

Sutured Ghoul is runner up. If you include it and other high power zombies like Rotting Regisaur you can put him out as a 20+/xx easily, and then get 2/2s. HE doesnt play nice with mass reanimate, but he's an alternate win condition on his own. also its a great tool since youre probably gonna sac the dino and Phyrexian Soulgorger pretty quickly. If you sacrifice him on the end step before your turn i think you will almost always have a game ending horde.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel is utterly stupid. The absolute best reanimate target you could hope for. and since your card draw is gonna cost a ton of life, hes always going to be valuable. Whip of Erebos is probably the only other reasonable lifegain choice.That one makes aggressive attacking suddenly super safe

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia is really cheap at making zombies if you dont have any other sources of decayed zombs. they cant block, but you get so many death triggers

Graveborn Muse is great card draw.

Hatred is usually better than Endless Scream

I think Gempalm Polluter is fantastic. its card draw, puts a big zombie into your graveyard, and hurts a player if things are going well.

I don't think Endless Ranks of the Dead is that great, but it certainly is cool. Wand of Orcus is really cool too. I'm not sure if its good though.

Board wipes will shut you down as you have things right now. Crowded Crypt and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, that way, even if there's a board wipe you still have a whole army of zombs to multiply even after everything is dead. Rise of the Dread Marn is another fantastic option that you can abuse if you run things like Carrion Feeder too. Run Carrion Feeder, period. It lets you loop gravecrawler and saves yourself from control magic and exile spells.

Consider Toxic Deluge and STRONGLY CONSIDER Nevinyrral's Disk. Single target removal like tragic slip is ok because you can choose when things die, but other cards like Malicious Affliction are going to miss a lot of key targets. And you absolutely need to have a way to clear artifacts and especially enchantments.

Dark Salvation is pretty cool. not sure if it is good enough, but i'd use it rather than some of your spot removal.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General is really absurdly strong if you can get it out, and even if it dies the next turn you can draw a bunch off of it. Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip you already know is great.

If you diversify your black lands, Field of the Dead is the best land. its silly how good it is. I'll start you off with the autoinclude Unholy Grotto. Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip is too.

I'll see what you make and see if i find anything else. later

thefiresoflurve on Grimgrin - Needs your Help

1 year ago

Yylon Thanks for the info, graveyard dimir zombies sounds fun.

A few potential cuts, subject to your playtesting experience:

Dread Summons - sorcery speed, and the zombies come in tapped, so right away I'm not horribly impressed. I'd cut this unless your table runs incredibly heavy creature decks and you get upwards of 6 zombies from it consistently.

Similarly, Dark Salvation seems a bit too mana intensive for what it does, although I will admit I am biased because I like board wipes more than targeted removal (Esper gang).

All of your enchantments look really amazing. Open the Graves may be able to be cut, since it's a strictly worse version of Headless Rider in this deck.

Endless Ranks of the Dead is another maybe-cut, crazy as it sounds. I think this card is a bit win-more. It is really fun, though...

Similarly, Empty the Laboratory. If you have enough zombies on the field to make it impactful, you're probably already winning. It's also sorcery speed in a deck that sucks at giving haste.

Champion of the Perished can be cut. It isn't bad, but a vanilla 110/110 is just as easy to block as a 2/2.

All of this is, of course, barring any idiosyncrasies of your playgroups - maybe Champion of the Perished singlehandedly wins games for you. I think you have a really solid deck here, and just need to play some more and figure out what works in practice and what doesn't.

Happy building!

Metroid_Hybrid on Fully Loaded Zombie Throwing Caution to the Wind

1 year ago

I see your Coffers', but 6 mana is still a lot for Modern. Have you ever thought about replacing Grave Titan with Endless Ranks of the Dead?

wallisface on Joe Gusfield (Rowans Deck)

1 year ago

Some thoughts:

• Sign in Blood is a pretty universally-bad card, especially in decks that are trying to be aggressive - as it means you’re doing nothing to advance your board-state that turn. I would suggest ditching it entirely.

• I don’t think you want to be running the full playset of Endless Ranks of the Dead… 4 mana is a lot, and drawing a second one of these is usually going to suck. I’d cut the quantity back to 2-3 copies.

• Infernal Grasp > Go for the Throat.