Black and Blue and Zombified

I feel like I complain a lot in this space. Whine. Whatever you want to call it. This post starts in a whiney way, but stay with me.

Magic: The Gathering has always been a fun pastime. Most of the close friendships I have now began in my basement with the neighbor boys playing video games or trying to play MTG. We knew the basics of the 6th Edition but our misunderstanding of more complicated rules led to weird "house rules" and we still play that way when we're just having fun. Undead mode was my favorite; when your opponent hit zero life or below he got a special undead bonus and you couldn't win until he reached negative 15 life.

These days, we pack our decks up and head to the local card store for Friday Night Magic (yes, FNM is a thing). It's competitive. Kill or be killed, a go for the throat mentality. I like the competition, but I hate the seriousness. I'm the guy who built a rat deck during the Kamigawa block (it's still one of my favorite decks to play even though it hardly ever wins).

Lately, I haven't taken Type 2 seriously at all. Innistrad? Gothic horror setting? Vampires are red now? Where are the goblins. I swear, if the vampires sparkled I'd probably burn all my cards and never think about Magic again. Thank God they haven't crossed that line. But, for the sake of having a legal Type 2 deck, I made list of all the zombie cards in Innistrad and Dark Ascension. The plan is to build a black/blue zombie deck with no creature card duplicates. There's even a zombie cat now. Seriously. I may exclude that one out of shear principle. It's a cat.

Because my friends and I share cards like basement communists, I probably won't have to buy that many. Check the creature card list below.

4x - Diregraf Ghoul
4x - Black Cat
4x - Walking Corpse
4x - Highborn Ghoul
4x - Diregraf Captain
1x - Armored Skaab
1x - Ghoulraiser
1x - Headless Skaab
1x - Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1x - Relentless Skaabs
1x - Sightless Ghoul

1x - Army of the Damned
2x - Cellar Door
1x - Curse of Echoes
2x - Endless Ranks of the Dead
1x - Heartless Summoning
2x - Moan of the Unhallowed
1x - Rooftop Storm
2x - Zombie Apocalypse
2x - Zombie Infestation

6x - Island
14x - Swamp

Sweet. Anyway, this deck faired well in its debut weekend. But I'm open to suggestions. It could certainly use some tightening up. And I'd like to get rid of the zombie cats.