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I agree! I honestly don't have a clue what "CBS" is supposed to be. "Cube Bull Shit"?

The 3 toughness might be what makes it bearable

Liliana's Reaver Maybe on the more obnoxious end?

They also pair well with red discard effects such as faithless looting and devastating dreams for the RG control decks.

There's also a good chance you can just run both the wurm and the hydra!

That's fine! I just have found myself to be a bit hand-wavey, so that's why I mentioned it. These days I even like to go as far as try to write up what an actual 40-card deck with a theme would look like. It's much harder to argue against something very concrete.

Do you really need to play aristocrats specifically to want a 5/5 hasty dragon???

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!