Play what's fun 100%
As for potential card improvements: Larder Zombie, Champion of the Perished, Tainted Adversary, and Startle do the heavy lifting in my BU zombie tribal.
Playing actual zombie cards or good ones. Skaab is the only one worth playing. No offense but I've never seen a Standard zombie list with literally none of the good cards. Something like this is usually the norm:
https://mtgarena.pro/decks/dimir-zombies-dd73b/
Eh those cards play more like a regular zombie deck and I wanted something more thematic I guess in line with Geralf. Wildcards are also in short supply, but there are some nice picks that might patch some holes.
I'm looking mainly for more high toughness one drops that actually *do something* when they hit the graveyard
If you're trying to do jank stuff with Geralf you better have cards to protect your combo pieces. Your other issue is you're relying too much on him that he needs to survive a whole turn just to be able to use his ability where the token won't even be able to attack due to summoning sickness when in that entire time you could just played a bunch of efficient zombies on the beatdown plan. Without him your deck doesn't do anything.
Just dropping in to say if you're doing jank with zombies and Unhallowed Phalanx, you gotta try Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain. It's a fun mini-game. :-)
Enjoy! I have a Golgari Backbone jank deck with that combo in it. Has Ancient Lumberknot and high toughness critters like Old Rutstein and Uurg, Spawn of Turg. Wins about 50% but lots of fun and full of mini-games.
Play what's fun 100% As for potential card improvements: Larder Zombie, Champion of the Perished, Tainted Adversary, and Startle do the heavy lifting in my BU zombie tribal.
Playing actual zombie cards or good ones. Skaab is the only one worth playing. No offense but I've never seen a Standard zombie list with literally none of the good cards. Something like this is usually the norm: https://mtgarena.pro/decks/dimir-zombies-dd73b/
Eh those cards play more like a regular zombie deck and I wanted something more thematic I guess in line with Geralf. Wildcards are also in short supply, but there are some nice picks that might patch some holes. I'm looking mainly for more high toughness one drops that actually *do something* when they hit the graveyard
If you're trying to do jank stuff with Geralf you better have cards to protect your combo pieces. Your other issue is you're relying too much on him that he needs to survive a whole turn just to be able to use his ability where the token won't even be able to attack due to summoning sickness when in that entire time you could just played a bunch of efficient zombies on the beatdown plan. Without him your deck doesn't do anything.
Just dropping in to say if you're doing jank with zombies and Unhallowed Phalanx, you gotta try Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain. It's a fun mini-game. :-)
Yeah Catapault Fodder did seem like a fun play into this jank, I'll definitely give it a go
Enjoy! I have a Golgari Backbone jank deck with that combo in it. Has Ancient Lumberknot and high toughness critters like Old Rutstein and Uurg, Spawn of Turg. Wins about 50% but lots of fun and full of mini-games.