• AJ Christiaens

Mortis likes dead things, especially throwing those dead things at his opponents. Mortis Grimm Midrange is a deck that uses the discard pile like no other. Just flip your deck upside down, and get all the value. 

To get his deadly engine going there are some notable cards you want to see early. Gifts From The Grave being the most useful early game start, though it falls off hard past the first couple of turns. Sir Grimm Crimson, The Undead Prince on the other hand is always good, and he helps the dead keep walking with endless card advantage. Having 1-2 revive effects in hand like Windmill Of Corpses or Across The River Styx to start, allows him to keep giving you want you need. 

• Early Tips & Playlines

  • The deck is mostly broken into three parts: cards that mill, cards that do things when milled or in discard, and Warriors. your first turn you want to start milling and using this to gain access to more of your deck. The deck is largely left to its own demise, relying on more luck then others by milling but has many cards that fill the same role to help mediate this. 

  • Besides just throwing your deck into the discard pile, its always good to draw cards too. Grimmace, The Grimm Princess and Agatha, Ancient Girl Of The Grimm being revived a few times helps keep your hand full. 

  • Prysm, Soul-Collector Of The Grimm and Esmeralda, The Grimm Necromancer not only bring their dead friends back but each other. This allows you to loop your undead army until you can't kill them anymore. 

• Late Tips & Playlines

  • Generally once you have the set up and the opening, you want to use Slow But Grimm Decay to finish off your opponent. Mortis' Special Ability can help clear your board to add some extra damage or you can try to stick a Spores From The Suffering Cyprus to finish the job. 

  • If you find you don't have the ability to push to much damage it might be best to make sure you have the Prysm and Esmeralda loop or ways to restart it, with Gone But Never Forgotten being the best option to do so.

  • you will find that your deck gets flipped pretty quick once the ball gets rolling. Try to be aware of what you have access to and what you might not be able to use with no cards in deck. That being said, with no deck and Across The River Styx plus Sir Grimm Crimson, The Undead Prince you can set up pretty much any play you need. 

• Matt Waller

Putrid is a strong reactive control deck amongst the undead legion. It is focused on denying and locking out your opponent to allow you to either find or force an opportunity in which you can strike. Putrid can be built a variety of ways but the main goal is to stunt your opponent's value while pushing in for a lot of little bits of damage to overwhelm them, giving them too many resources to deal with where they are forced to make tough decisions with the little value they have.

Mulligan Tips:

• For your opening hand, it vastly depends on the guardian that you are playing, if you aren't playing Meg'saria, Princess Of Lost Souls, you are going to be looking for an an opening way to see Putrid Infestation Sentinel, Horrix, such as Mal'ady's Putrid Burial Ground, Putrid Infestation, or Putrid Eruption Bloom. 

• If you are playing Meg'saria, Princess Of Lost Souls you are going to be looking for more ways to make value out of Horrix for draw power but also ways to be able to set up your defensive lines such as, nothing left but putrid plague, Mal'ady's Putrid Mausoleum or Putrid Acidic Rain. Note: the previous mentioned starters are also strong, Meg'saria just gives you a more consistent start with Horrix.

Early Tips & Playlines

• Early game you want to set up your Asphyxia, The Putrid Silencer to be able to suffocate as soon as you can while also setting up the negate power to lock them down and keep them locked down. 

• Some of the lock down pieces you are looking for are things like Denial By Doomfire which can be reset off of Nothing Left But Putrid Plague for negates from your bin once per turn, Deaths Doorstep to gain control of your opponent's perishes or Altar Of Affliction to slow them down for a turn.

• If you are playing a more bounty heavy deck such as garden stax, this is where you want to work towards finding things like Majik Void Collapse, Majik Void Aurora or Twilight Magnolia. 

Late Tips & Playlines

• Late game you are looking for things like Malady's Putrid Mausoleum to kill everything instantly, Steadfast Courage to be able to boost your damage from decays, as well as Asphyxia's perish ability on the turn that you want to do the most damage, usually in conjunction with the other 2 for a max total of 11 damage per Corpse Flower that you make.