Re: These Decks are Fun!

Root Update!

Garlic is here! Zombie players no longer need to brush their teeth. We all smell pretty much the same.

I wanted to do a little update showing how I’ve modified my root deck with the addition of Garlic. I’m including subtractions, additions, and rationale... or you could just skip to the picture.

Removed: 2x Grave Buster

Added: 2x Imitater

How come: This was always my plan. My zombie decks right now are pretty much how I like them, so I finally spent some dust and got the full set of Taters to go with my Starch-Lords.

Grave Busters got the axe first b/c they are conditional cards. They can be quite excellent, but I don’t like conditional cards as a general rule. I myself run more than a couple zombie decks that have no gravestones. On purpose.

Removed: 4x Veloci-Radish Hatchling

Added: 4x Garlic

How Come: Garlic doesn’t quite have the same dimension on offense, but this deck was not built to be fast. Garlic is a better control card. It’s got beef. It’s got... a little bit of bite. It’s actually one of the better options for protecting Starch-Lord. Most importantly, it fills a one-drop Root slot AND it has team up.

Removed: 3x Plantern

Added: 1x Veloci-Radish Hunter, 2x Primal Wall-Nut

How Come: Plantern is a good card... but it’s not a great copy target. With 4x Imitater, I felt the deck needed more/better targets in case Starch-Lord is not available. The Veloci-Radish Hunter I opened... the Wall-Nut I had to craft.

Of the two, I am absolutely loving Wall-Nut so far. Though it doesn’t quite fit the “roots” theme, it turns out 9 toughness/untrickable defends a Starch-Lord pretty well. It also has the advantage over Plantern of Team-Up (this deck loves Team-Up), and has the potential of giving Tater yet another copy target off the random Conjure.

Here’s the updated deck.