Not really getting the chance to play my Sidisi deck much. When I do it seems to get rolled by one of the more expensive decks before it can get going. I can say though that Path of Discovery is great in it. I lost a game today because I totally missed a trigger off Underrealm Lich and the Path when someone did something which made everyone discard their hand and draw seven cards. I should have drawn 21 cards essentially, made a ton of Zombies, all Exploring.
Finally got to take my deck out for a spin last night, and I won! Survived a couple of boardwipes before dropping an x=18 Empty the Pits and using the -3 ability on Liliana, Untouched By Death to cast things like Zombie Master, Diregraf Captain and Cemetery Reaper. At that point everyone scooped. Second game I got rolled by a massive Hydra on turn 5 and that was it...
Am I right in assuming that you can change Lazav on the fly whenever? So you could change types in response or in the opponent's end step?
Yes, it's an activated ability; therefore, you can use it at instant speed.
It'd be funny to use it to copy Lazav, the Multifarious and then use the ability of that to copy another card.
And if one did that, wouldn't Embalmer's Tools work as well? So the Necrotic Ooze has the ability of Lazav to pay X to become a creature in the graveyard but the Tools makes it X-1?
I'm probably going to dump Reclamation Sage, Gravecrawler and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet for the Lich, Lazav and Ooze. Just a final question though: doesn't Taigam, Sidisi's Hand cancel out the Lich? Taigam says you "skip your draw step" and "put one into your hand", and the Lich says "If you would draw a card".
I came up with this deck as a way to deal direct damage and leveraging the graveyard a bit. Just wanted to check if I was missing something obvious or if it could actually fly.
Right, I'm getting close... This is where I'm at, it's been quite restricted by budget by managed to trade for a lot of it. Just need some help doing the final cuts and if there are any other cards I should definitely get:
So I'm at 103 at the moment... I know it doesn't follow the usual path but as I said it's been about budget, hence why there's no Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, or the expensive lands. I know you're not big on Josu but he's sort of my Grave Titan. Perpetual Timepiece is one of my graveyard protection things instead of the Eldrazi, and it sort of does a mini Embalmer's Tools effect. Risen Executioner seems weak I think.
I guess Graveyard Marshall is just shooting yourself in the foot (or worse). I was talking to someone about the M19 cards and they couldn't see how Open the Graves was better than Liliana's Mastery. And then they complain that I only do Zombies... They don't understand it. Like how great Stitcher's Supplier is.
One thing I've been considering is dropping in Bontu's Last Reckoning as a poor man' Damnation though. Also considering Avatar of Woe and Scourge of Nel Toth as possible answers.
It'd be funny to use it to copy Lazav, the Multifarious and then use the ability of that to copy another card.
And if one did that, wouldn't Embalmer's Tools work as well? So the Necrotic Ooze has the ability of Lazav to pay X to become a creature in the graveyard but the Tools makes it X-1?
I'm probably going to dump Reclamation Sage, Gravecrawler and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet for the Lich, Lazav and Ooze. Just a final question though: doesn't Taigam, Sidisi's Hand cancel out the Lich? Taigam says you "skip your draw step" and "put one into your hand", and the Lich says "If you would draw a card".
Am I right in assuming that you can change Lazav on the fly whenever? So you could change types in response or in the opponent's end step?
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Stitcher's Supplier
3 Glowspore Shaman
4 Tattered Mummy
3 Midnight Reaper
2 Doom Whisperer
3 Underrealm Lich
2 Lotleth Giant
Spells:13
2 Necrotic Wound
3 Status // Statue
2 Mausoleum Secrets
4 Creeping Chill
2 Liliana, Untouched by Death
3 Forest
4 Golgari Guildgate (a)
3 Memorial to Folly
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Swamp
4 Woodland Cemetery
1 Duress
1 Wand of Vertebrae
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Naturalize
1 Ritual of Soot
1 Vraska's Contempt
1 Gruesome Menagerie
1 Rise from the Grave
The sideboard is obviously a work in progress. Obviously Assassin's Trophy should be main but I think it's way overpriced at the moment.
Nantuko is there for a sac outlet with Vengeful Dead, Diregraf Captain, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Plague Belcher. And Josu instead of Grave Titan although I can see that he's a bit niche. I was thinking Splendid Reclamation is a bit superfluous with Muldrotha, The Gravetide and World Shaper.
1 Stitcher's Supplier
1 Cryptbreaker
1 Gravecrawler
1 Relentless Dead
1 Cemetery Reaper
1 Death Baron
1 Diregraf Captain
1 Lich Lord of Unx
1 Lord of the Accursed
1 Lord of the Undead
1 Nantuko Husk
1 Plague Belcher
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Zombie Master
1 Filth
1 Gisa and Geralf
1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Risen Executioner
1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
1 Undead Alchemist
1 Undead Warchief
1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
1 World Shaper
1 Corpse Connoisseur
1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
1 Havengul Lich
1 Noxious Ghoul
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1 Taigam, Sidisi's Hand
1 The Scarab God
1 Vengeful Pharaoh
1 Gempalm Polluter
1 Gravespawn Sovereign
1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Sol Ring
1 Embalmer's Tools
1 Perpetual Timepiece
1 Coat of Arms
Sorceries:11
1 Dread Summons
1 Life from the Loam
1 Buried Alive
1 Victimize
1 Dread Return
1 Jarad's Orders
1 Splendid Reclamation
1 Final Parting
1 Living Death
1 Rise from the Grave
1 Zombie Apocalypse
Instants:3
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Grisly Salvage
1 Empty the Pits
Enchantments:9
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Arcane Adaptation
1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc
1 Journey to Eternity
1 Open The Graves
1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
1 Path of Discovery
1 Deadbridge Chant
1 Rooftop Storm
Others:3
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
1 Liliana, Untouched By Death
Lands:34
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Dismal Backwater
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Evolving Wilds
2 Forest
1 Golgari Guildgate
2 Island
1 Jungle Hollow
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Mana Confluence
1 Morphic Pool
1 Nephalia Drownyard
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Opulent Palace
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Polluted Delta
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Sunken Hollow
5 Swamp
1 Temple of Deceit
1 Temple of Malady
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Unholy Grotto
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Yavimaya Coast
So I'm at 103 at the moment... I know it doesn't follow the usual path but as I said it's been about budget, hence why there's no Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, or the expensive lands. I know you're not big on Josu but he's sort of my Grave Titan. Perpetual Timepiece is one of my graveyard protection things instead of the Eldrazi, and it sort of does a mini Embalmer's Tools effect. Risen Executioner seems weak I think.