| MTG: Magic The Gathering - Ravnica Starter Deck - Golgari Deathcreep
With the "Golgari Deathcreep" deck, death isn't where life ends—it's where it
begins. Your graveyard will be your greatest resource while playing this deck.
Why settle for what might be on top of your library when you can instead pick
the best dredge card in your graveyard each turn?
Start out by getting a
card with dredge into your graveyard as early as possible. The best ways to do
this are to take down an opposing creature with Darkblast or sacrifice a
Shambling Shell after it deals combat damage. Next turn, use that card's dredge
ability to return it to your hand. As you stuff your graveyard full of cards
from your library, you'll see more cards with dredge in there, giving you more
options. Eventually, you'll never need to draw another card from your
library—everything you need will be in your graveyard.
A fat graveyard
also gives you lots of juicy, rotting targets for Vigor Mortis, Recollect, and
Necromantic Thirst, and your Golgari Grave-Troll and Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
will be huge as well. Both creatures are tough to stop (the Grave-Troll
regenerates and Svogthos isn't a creature all the time), so either one should
let you ooze your way to victory.
The scariest card in the deck is
Savra, Queen of the Golgari. Each time you sacrifice Shambling Shell with Savra
around, you can have your opponent sacrifice a creature and you put a +1/+1
counter on a creature. Even better, you can dredge up the Shell and do it again!
To Savra's delight, the deck has plenty of other cards that let you sacrifice
creatures, including Thoughtpicker Witch, Golgari Guildmage, and Drooling
Groodion. Don't worry—the creatures you send to your graveyard will probably
crawl right back out
1 Thoughtpicker Witch C
2 Infectious Host C
2 Stinkweed Imp C
2 Elves of Deep Shadow C
1 Elvish Skysweeper C
2 Golgari Brownscale C
3 Greater Mossdog C
1 Golgari Grave-Troll R
1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari R
2 Shambling Shell C
2 Woodwraith Strangler C
2 Golgari Rotwurm C
2 Drooling Groodion U
1 Golgari Guildmage U
2 Darkblast U
2 Last Gasp C
1 Necromantic Thirst C
1 Vigor Mortis U
1 Moldervine Cloak U
2 Recollect U
1 Rolling Spoil U
2 Putrefy U
11 Swamp
11 Forest
1 Golgari Rot Farm C
1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb U |
