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It's very easy to just wave a hand without listing the actual cards necessary to get the critical mass for a theme to be viable.

I think a life-pay theme sprinkled with just a few good lifegain-matters cards is a good way to go both supporting it organically (lifepay for powerful effects that wants lifegain) and some signalling elements to get the idea implanted in a drafters mind (the lifegain-matters card). Giving two...

Can you give some examples of these critters?

I do run a pox archetype to a degree.. so maybe it isn't that unrealistic to be low on cards in hand in black :) Might just try it.

dread wanderer Another one. How hard is it to actually get down to 1 card in a regular deck? Do you need to actively discard cards to get to use him?

I'm already trying to support death cloud and braids and smokestack, so I think a card like call to the grave fits that theme pretty well. Incidentally, I'm running Reassembling skeleton to get a lock with those cards already so call might just make it in :)

That's a good argument :) The lock only works with a zombie deck so maybe it isn't that oppressive. Worth a try at least

call to the grave Is this a fair card in a zombie dense deck or miserable? I can see it ending up as a repetitive board state with no interaction. It does really insentivise playing zombies though.

penumbra spider I like this as a brindle shoat style creature as well. skaab ruinator How much self mill do I want before I run this card? Keeping in mind a soft UB zombie theme in general.

Knight of the meadowgrain reads so much cleaner BUT, it's also a CC card. Lone Rider is much harder to parse, but is also much easier to slot into a deck.

I'm tempted to switch from occultist to phoenix now!

Do you prefer flamewake phoenix over Chandra's phoenix?

After having played against this I can sadly report that both me and other players in my playgroup found it to be game ruining garbage. It completely shuts down any combat, and becomes a boring removal check that halts what could've otherwise been an interesting match. Cut it after one draft!

Personally I like giving green some generous fixing, but I also run only comes in tapped fixing.

Although what zombies do you wanna bring back with these two bad boys/girls?

Honestly how did I miss Gisa and Geralf. I recently rebuilt my cube, and UB ended up being sort of self-mill and soft-zombie focused (a few matters cards but a good couple of zombies). This is like the perfect signaling card.

Honestly, War gear isn't really a synergy card as much as it is a haste 3/2 creature for 3 that you play in almost every aggro deck.

You can also use dark dweller to sacrifice a creature that has a removal spell aimed at it, to try to eek out some value out of it that way.

Yeah I've also noticed the earlier stated sentiment of 6 toughness creatures bring difficult to find

What creatures do you pair with destructive force?