For a long time since the ban on Halquifibrax, Chaos ruler dragon and now recently spright elf, zombie combo has been very expensive, relying on playing bystials, branded, despia and turning the deck into a turbo doomking + mirrorjade. This evolution of the zombie deck as been just a worst branded deck, etc.
I took sometime finally review the state of the deck and the cards to find out a way to re use all the new zombie support and play the deck as intended, ofcourse this will not win a tier 1 deck, its not meant to be anyways, but its fun enough to be consisten, put up interuptions and play the clasic zombie endboard of vampire + synchro 10 + eldlich with a facedown. This endboard is close enough to represent what zombie combo used to do, be able to synchro, link, fusion and even if you want you can change the extra to play xyz, o put in baldrake and try to make beatriz.
The reason its mixed with eldlich is because 1 eldlich on board can let u utilize black stone as a emergency teleport for the deck, this solves the issue with being negated on the normal, not being able to extend after etc. You can try to play more handtraps, or board breakers, but for this list i rather leave it as a clean and pure build and let others use this as a template for their own flavour, the objective of the deck is to combo, not control, eldlich is a neat engine that just helps the zombie build to be better.
If you are new to the deck, i will explain a bit the idea, (but in my opinion i think you should download the file and have fun experimenting to understand it before you read this)
Main combo line is usually any starter that goes uni-zombie/ send from deck to grave Changshi or hand, summon her/ extend by sending mad mauler (fun fact immortal dragon is generic), re-summon target the Changshi, summon immortal, send banshee, zombie world. At this point you did the basic part of the combo, the rest, you achieve it by extending, either a edlich setup to summon doomking with sanguine, while you have a red-eyes zombie dragon lord, that can revive de eldlich on draw phase, to use sanguine to bring doomking. Thats the basic part of the deck. Its a zombie tool-box deck inspired by the earth machine tool-box in a certain way.
Board breakers, Felgrand, Vampire Frauline, Shiranui solitaire to recylce the immortal dragon, vampire sucke to tribute summon using your opponents ZOMBIE monster, if you kill a dragoon, you can get it back with Frauline and laugh. One gripe with the extra is that i would maybe change 1 sucker for a superdreadnaught rail cannon gustav max for doing effect damage since having level 10 on field isnt that hard for the deck.
I guess you are wandering, why do you play the eldlich fusion spell? Well you see, if you draw a hand that doesnt have normal summons, or you have plenty of graveyard extenders, that spell lets you fusion ANYTHING, as long as you use zombies from your hand or field, its not a brick anymore, so with that fact, why not play garura? well as i said before this is a template, a idea that can get better or even lower the cost of the deck, i made this list for budget players and as a generic idea. The side deck is anything you want ignore whats on it.
What is it weak against? Heavy backrow decks tend to be tedious battles put being able to put large atackers tend to help the labrynth match up a bit, Kashtira because of the banish, bystial decks already have proven to kill anyother deck that plays light/dark and branded/despia/bystial kind of screws the deck over if its just despia branded, maybe you have a chance.
What our it strengths? Recursive graveyard, if you are not dead turn after turn 2, you pretty much already have plenty of interactions ready, its strong agains other rogue decks and can make up for a very fun duel thats back and forth winning depends onm the pilot 60% of the time so learn how this deck works, some lines look like bricks, but they are not, its consistent enough to always do something that you can use, jack-o-bolan is in the deck to also solve bricks or even use it as a tribute summon if you drew chengshi.
Gold Sarcophagus is the new foolish burial, any zombie in grave, + this cards is already a way to banish changshi and summon her, its just amazing.
Ready fusion: Gozuki + this card is also already full combo, i would dare to say i like this opening more.
Why 1 shiranui and 2 uni-zombie, drawing 2 uni zombie is a brick, its not a useful thing, uni zombie is a starter AND a brick, so playing 2 copies and 1 shiranui solved the problem for me.
Why dont you play zombie reborn? You can play it, especially to recycle mezukis, but i think that if you are playing already a edlich engine, it makes zombie reborn redundant, i would love to find space for it thou.