And The Dead Keep It, The Way Is Shut

Commander / EDH* Flying Regenerate UB (Dimir) Zombie

isaiahnixon

Land (33)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Crumbling Vestige
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Faceless Haven
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Frost Marsh
• 1x Frostwalk Bastion
• 1x Ice Tunnel
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 1x Shimmerdrift Vale
• 5x Snow-Covered Island
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Spawning Pool
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Unknown Shores
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Draw (5)

• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opt
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Train of Thought

Protection/Control (5)

• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Robe of Mirrors
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Creatures (22)

• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Doomed Dissenter
• 1x Drudge Skeletons
• 1x Etrata, the Silencer
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
• 1x Hordewing Skaab
• 1x Lim-Dul the Necromancer
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Pilfering Hawk
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Rimebound Dead
• 1x Severed Legion
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Vantress Gargoyle
• 1x Vraska, Scheming Gorgon
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zombie Master
• 1x Zombie Musher

Stax (9)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Desolation
• 1x Dream Tides
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Shapeshifter's Marrow
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Winter Orb

Animate/Reanimate (4)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Macabre Waltz
• 1x Unearth

Commander (1)

Ramp (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bonder's Ornament
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Hedron Crawler
• 1x Renegade Map
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Hate (7)

• 1x Blood on the Snow
• 1x Cruel Edict
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Despoil
• 1x Diabolic Edict
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Rancid Earth

Tutor (2)

• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Other (45)

• 1x Advanced Stitchwing
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Balthor the Defiled
• 1x Befoul
• 1x Bottled Cloister
• 1x Bounty Hunter
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Corrupted Grafstone
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Diamond Mare
• 1x Dross Crocodile
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fear
• 1x Fetid Imp
• 1x Frost Trickster
• 1x Gavony Unhallowed
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Mass of Ghouls
• 1x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Pacification Array
• 1x Pewter Golem
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Sanctuary Raptor
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Terror
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

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I am looking for suggestions on which cards to cut, as I need to narrow down the deck. I would be happy for other suggestions as well.

The main idea is to create a hybrid Stax deck with Winter/Frozen theme. The deck runs lots of stax cards like Rising Waters, Frozen Aether, Winter Orb etc.

I am altering a Stax deck I have created that was a hybrid Voltron stax, but did not work they way I hoped. One large problem was I had too expensive of spells and because I run land locks, I kept locking myself out.

I am thinking that if I run smaller cmc creatures that are either flying, unblockable, or can regenerate, then with Narfi and other zombie/snow boosters, I can boost them up to do the damage I need. As I slowly unlock lands, I can still afford 1-2 mana creatures.

As of now, I have worked to edit it a bit, but feel I need to reduce the creature count and increase the Stax and rocks counts.

I would like it to be budget friendly, with cheap alternative cards to the really expensive core Stax cards.

I want this to be semi-competitive too. Let me know what you think!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 39 - 0 Commons
Cards	103
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie X/X U