28 MONTHS LATER (Thraximundar tribal zombie infect)

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#1 May 19, 2015

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28 DAYS / WEEKS / MONTHS LATER

- STARRING THRAXIMUNDAR -

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DECK ORIGINS

"…a third picture is moving forward…"

DECK CREATION

When I set out to design a 28…Later deck, I knew I wanted the commander to be a zombie — yes, I'm well aware they're not actually zombies — and I knew that I wanted access to R for haste. (Sorry, Romero.) Thraximundar was the obvious choice.

As I did with my Star Trek: DEEP SPACE NINE decks (not yet published) and the Two-Face deck in my BATMAN VS series, I restricted the amount of each card type in a flavorful fashion. In this deck, there are 28 Zombie creatures; 2 non-Zombie creatures; 2 each of enchantment, instant, and planeswalker spells; 20 artifacts; and 8 sorcery spells.

Because the infected of 28 are not Magic's traditional necromantic zombies or even the newer stitched up Skaabs à la Innistrad, I heavily restricted the amount of creature recursion in the deck.

And, because 28's sprinting masses are infected, the deck has a poison subtheme.

Finally, taking a cue from the firebombings in 28 Weeks Later, I included a couple mass land removal spells for flavor's sake as well.

DECK ARCHETYPE

This is an aggro deck.

DECK THEMES

hasty, infectious zombies
proliferation of poison, loyalty, and creature stat counters
heavy focus on flavor

DECK STRATEGY

RAMP
cast Zombie spells
attack with infected creature
proliferate
LAUGH
cast commander and attack
cast planeswalker
proliferate some more
repeat as necessary
WIN

"28 Days / Weeks / Months Later"Magic Online OCTGN2 Apprentice Buy These Cards
COMMANDER 1x Thraximundar ZOMBIES (28) 1x Blackcleave Goblin 1x Cemetery Reaper 1x Corpse Harvester 1x Death Baron 1x Deathbringer Thoctar 1x Diregraf Captain 1x Dread Slaver 1x Fleshbag Marauder 1x Gempalm Polluter 1x Graveborn Muse 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 1x Hand of the Praetors 1x Helldozer 1x Lich Lord of Unx 1x Lightning Reaver 1x Liliana's Reaver 1x Lord of the Undead 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 1x Noxious Ghoul 1x Phyrexian Crusader 1x Risen Executioner 1x Stronghold Assassin 1x Toxic Nim 1x Unbreathing Horde 1x Undead Warchief 1x Vengeful Dead 1x Withered Wretch	NON-ZOMBIE CREATURES (2) 1x Anger 1x Urabrask the Hidden INSTANTS (2) 1x Empty the Pits 1x Tainted Strike ENCHANTMENTS (2) 1x Inexorable Tide 1x Rooftop Storm PLANESWALKERS (2) 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage ARTIFACTS (20) 1x Amulet of Vigor 1x Contagion Engine 1x Grafted Exoskeleton 1x Nim Deathmantle 1x Rings of Brighthearth 1x Chromatic Lantern 1x Clock of Omens 1x Coalition Relic 1x Crucible of Worlds 1x Darksteel Ingot 1x Dimir Signet 1x Everflowing Chalice 1x Gilded Lotus 1x Grim Monolith 1x Izzet Signet 1x Mana Vault 1x Rakdos Signet 1x Sol Ring 1x Thran Dynamo 1x Worn Powerstone SORCERIES (8) 1x All Is Dust 1x Army of the Damned 1x Black Sun's Zenith 1x Damnation 1x Decree of Annihilation 1x Devastation 1x Necromantic Selection 1x Zombie Apocalypse	LANDS (35) 1x Blood Crypt 1x Bojuka Bog 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1x Cabal Coffers 1x Cascade Bluffs 1x Cavern of Souls 1x Command Tower 1x Dragonskull Summit 1x Drowned Catacomb 1x Graven Cairns 1x Inkmoth Nexus 5x Island 1x Miren, the Moaning Well 3x Mountain 1x Reliquary Tower 1x Strip Mine 1x Sunken Ruins 8x Swamp 1x Unholy Grotto 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1x Volrath's Stronghold 1x Watery Grave