Undead Unleashed Editing

[Landale]

Undead Unleashed Edit
I'm planning to get the Undead Unleashed deck and edit it a bit, so far what I have changed is stuff I have on hand or have ordered along with it.
What I'm wondering is if there are any good but cheap, <$10 or ideally <$5, options to add in that I'm overlooking. Especially if it can help lower the overall mana cost in the deck.

[The Golgari Guy]

I've recently brewed a Josu Vess zombie tribal deck, maybe you can find some ideas in the list:

https://deckstats.net/decks/149180/2149724-josu-vess-zombie-tribal

By the way that precon seems incredible, and the value of the reprint is sky-high. I'll probably get it too.

[Landale]

By the way that precon seems incredible, and the value of the reprint is sky-high. I'll probably get it too.

The biggest issue I see with it is the almost complete lack of 1 and 2 drops outside of mana rocks, part of why I'm looking mostly at cheap things to help fix that.
I completely forgot to put a Champion of the Perished on my order, so I should look into fixing that. Cryptbreaker seems pretty nice too. I might have a Carrion Feeder and Gempalm Polluter buried somewhere too

[The Golgari Guy]

Happy my list could help!

Consider Species Specialist too! It's not a zombie, but that card is incredible in any tribal deck. Also it doesn't say nontoken!

[WWolfe]

Patriarch's Bidding?

[Landale]

Revision 4

Added/removed cards:
-1 Distant Melody
-1 Gutless Ghoul
-1 Liliana's Mastery
-1 Victimize
-1 You Find the Villains' Lair
-1 Zombie Apocalypse
+1 Bladestitched Skaab
+1 Carrion Feeder
+1 Champion of the Perished
+1 Gempalm Polluter
+1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
+1 Patriarch's Bidding

[Landale]

Revision 6

A few minor adjustments based on card availability. Maybeboard significantly expanded on, reasons for consideration or current omission listed in notes.

Added/removed cards:
-1 Carrion Feeder
-1 Fatestitcher
-1 Gorex, the Tombshell
-1 Patriarch's Bidding
-1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
+1 Cryptbreaker
+1 Draugr Necromancer
+1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
+1 Tomebound Lich
+1 Zombie Apocalypse

[WWolfe]

Murderous Rider // Swift End ?

[Landale]

Murderous Rider // Swift End ?

I'm not quite sure I see the appeal. A kill spell tacked onto a creature is nice and all, kind of why I'm using Jarl of the Forsaken, but the Rider doesn't really play nice with any non-instant speed recursion.
Is there something I'm overlooking?

[WWolfe]

Murderous Rider // Swift End ?

I'm not quite sure I see the appeal. A kill spell tacked onto a creature is nice and all, kind of why I'm using Jarl of the Forsaken, but the Rider doesn't really play nice with any non-instant speed recursion.
Is there something I'm overlooking?

Not really. Some people really like it. I’ve tried it and never really had any great plays with it so it’s on my cut list . Those that like it really like it though.

[Landale]

Revision 9

Added/removed cards:
-1 Gleaming Overseer
-1 Gravespawn Sovereign
-1 Neurok Stealthsuit
-1 Runeboggle
-1 Stitcher Geralf
+1 Blasting Station
+1 Crashing Drawbridge
+1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
+1 Rotten Reunion
+1 Tainted Adversary

Found a combo piece for the Poppet Factory not in use in other decks, the Blasting Station, so it's back in.
Non-infinite combo for the Station with Wilhelt + Death Tyrant, each Decayed attacker creates a 2/2 non-Decayed Zombie, in response to each resolved trigger tap & sac that Zombie the Station to ping and Wilhelt sets up a Decayed Zombie for next turn.

[Landale]

Revision 13

Observations made in testing;
Heirloom Blade is stupidly good with Decayed Zombies.
More life gain may be needed to outlast others with Shepherd of Rot.

[WWolfe]

More life gain may be needed to outlast others with Shepherd of Rot.

Yea. When I ran Shepherd of Rot in my Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck when it was zombie tribal I found it to play that same way. However, in my Varina, Lich Queen deck it works well with the lifegain built into Varina.

[Landale]

Yea. When I ran Shepherd of Rot in my Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck when it was zombie tribal I found it to play that same way. However, in my Varina, Lich Queen deck it works well with the lifegain built into Varina.

Only reason I haven't cut it is my store's scoring for their league is based off players eliminated, yourself included, not necessarily winning in order to discourage automatic win cards or playing super defensively and just picking off the last person. Casual games on the other hand, I'm kind of hesitant to put it to use much.
The general lack of healing has kept me away from considering throwing my Graveborn Muse in however.
Revision 14

Added/removed cards:
-1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
-1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
+1 Deathgreeter
+1 Ghastly Gloomhunter

Just a couple more small changes to help with life management.

[Landale]

Revision 18

Added/removed cards:
-1 Crashing Drawbridge
-1 Soul Manipulation
+1 Diregraf Colossus
+1 Junkyo Bell

Junkyo Bell was something I came across sifting through my cards and just kind of clicked for me. Why have a 2/2 that dies for sure when I could have a 10/10 or whatever that dies for sure. Make the Decayed Zombie's shot really count. And if I've got Gisa out too, that gets stupid fast.
Not entirely sure I'm happy cutting the Crashing Drawbridge yet. Might put it back in in place of Deathgreeter but I need to test more first.