Have you been impish? Or admirable?

Christmas came early this year, and Saint Nicol brought us a heaping sack of value in the form of God-Pharaoh's Gift ! This deck aims to use Gate to the Afterlife to help fill our graveyard with six creatures ASAP, allowing us to crack it and fetch our Gift as early as turn 4!

Our goal is to fill our graveyard with creatures ASAP, crack Gate to the Afterlife, and start pumping out zombies via God-Pharaoh's Gift . Over half of our deck is made of creatures, all of whom either help us discard, cycle, or provide some sort of synergy for doing so. Keep in mind that God-Pharaoh's Gift is not legendary. You can continue filling your graveyard after getting your first Gift online for maximum BM.

Gift targets

Any of our creatures will do, but these are the best:

Combat Celebrant - SO GOOD. If you fill your graveyard with multiple copies you are going to win. Live the five-combat-phases-in-one-turn dream.

Flameblade Adept - Menace + pumps for doing things we're already doing

Horror of the Broken Lands - No evasion, but pumps twice as hard as the Adept.

Insolent Neonate - Menace, helps continue to fuel our graveyard if he's going to die.

Cute stuff

Insolent Neonate is amazing with Gate to the Afterlife. For you add the Neonate, a creature in hand, and likely a third from the looting effect on the Gate. Combo with Falkenrath Gorger for bonus points.

Olivia, Mobilized for War is on the board and you want to give your Bloodrage Brawler haste. If you only have one other card in hand you can order the triggers so Olivia's ETB triggers first.

Post-Sideboard

Game one is going to take your opponent by surprise, it's unlikely they're equipped to shut us down in the main deck. Artifact and graveyard hate, our worst nightmare being Dispossess, shut us down hard. We can strip the gift package and replace it with a stronger madness ensemble. Sweltering Suns counters tokens well and leaves our eternals alive.