Grimgrin's Zombie Army

Commander / EDH Tribal UB (Dimir) Zombie

Kwasi

Creature (32)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gloomdrifter
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Skinrender
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stronghold Assassin
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Withered Wretch
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zombie Master

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bad River
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Island
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Soaring Seacliff
• 14x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (3)

• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Read the Runes

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Commander (1)

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My sac-happy Zombie deck. Short Description: Basically just play zombies, let them die, and get them back.

Long Description: This actually turned out to be a pretty strong deck. It lets you abuse death and ETB triggers all day, can spit out a giant token army (via Grave Titan or Army of the Damned, or even Undead Alchemist), and wipe the board pretty much at will. Unless someone exiles your graveyard, you will have access to all of your stuff all of the time, which is neat. Let's just say that the value in this deck is pretty ridiculous. Admittedly, your graveyard will get targeted as soon as people realize what is going on, so you gotta play around that a little bit. Some Wincons:

• Attack with giant Zombie Army (as mentioned above), sometimes with the help of Wonder, or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Zombie Master

• Attack with giant Grimgrin, Corpse-Born. He can get infinitely big with Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm

• Grey Merchant of Asphodel. You can cast him, sure, and he will usually swing the game hugely in your favour if he doesn't win on the spot. But more often than not I will just tutor him up (preferably into the graveyard), and then cast Living Death or Zombie Apocalypse. That will almost certainly do it.

• Mill someone to death with Undead Alchemist. Admittedly I haven't done that yet, and it seems pretty unlikely, but you never know. It's theoretically possible, after all.

• Activate Shepherd of Rot. I love this guy, probably more than I should. But he's so cool! And he can end the game very very quickly, if you have a reasonable amount of Zombies out.

Some miscellaneous combos/engines:

• Crucible of Worlds + Lake of the Dead . This will get your graveyard hated quicker than anything else in this deck. I don't know why, but people really seem to hate it.

• Crucible of Worlds + Tectonic Edge . Blow up pesky lands. Technically you can blow up everyone's lands until they have only 4 left, but where's the fun in that? Also, you will die before you manage that.

• Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm + any sac outlet: Infinite death/ETB triggers. Some possibilities: Grimgrin, Corpse-Born to make himself infinite. Noxious Ghoul for a one-sided board wipe. Vengeful Dead or Diregraf Captain to kill the table. Yeah, Rooftop Storm is stupid.

• Corpse Connoisseur + Dawn of the Dead : Tutor something in your yard every turn. Pretty neat to set up a huge Living Death.

• Living Death + Noxious Ghoul . Everything dies, then everyone gets their stuff back, then everyone else's stuff dies. Then you win, usually.

• Dictate of Erebos + Sac outlet: Oh, no one has any creatures except me. Particularly funny as Dictate of Erebos + Gravecrawler + Grimgrin, Corpse-Born , which reads as "B: Each opponent sacrifices a creature. Put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin."

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On the whole I'm very happy with this list, but I'm constantly tinkering with it and changing a card here or there. So suggestions from my fellow Zombie enthusiasts are always very welcome!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Crucible of Worlds + Tectonic Edge Crucible of Worlds + Lake of the Dead Corpse Connoisseur + Dawn of the Dead Living Death + Noxious Ghoul Dictate of Erebos + Gravecrawler + Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.66
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B