Frankenstein's Horde

Commander / EDH Combo Control Reanimator Tribal UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Creature (26)

• 1x Balthor the Defiled
• 1x Bone Dancer
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Silumgar Sorcerer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stronghold Assassin
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Viscera Seer

Land (37)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 5x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Tombstone Stairwell

Artifact (10)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Helm of Possession
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow

Instant (7)

• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Commander (1)

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Creature (3)

• 1x Filth
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Ruthless Deathfang

Land (1)

• 1x Tolaria West

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos

Artifact (1)

• 1x Door of Destinies

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What is dead may never die. This deck does what zombies do best: dying and reanimating.

The Deck:

The purpose of the deck is to run lots of recursion and control engines to get and keep Grimgrin on the field. Once he's there, I can sacrifice lots of things to make him big and swing in for massive damage. The deck features numerous board clearing strategies that make sure that there are few blockers in his way. A zombie tribal subtheme makes the deck significantly stronger with its high synergy and lots of useful tech. Most of the cards are self-explanatory, but Ive gone into a few key combos and notes below.

Note: the point is not to make lots of zombie tokens and run lords. Cards like Endless Ranks of the Dead and Cemetery Reaper haven't been included because I have to commit too many cards to the board to get value out of them.

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Key Combos:

Coffin Queen is a huge boon in this deck. She combos with a lot of stuff, including Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Silumgar Sorcerer , Solemn Simulacrum, etc. Failing an exploit creature, she can grab back something to sac to Grimgrin or simply steal something meaty from an opponent's graveyard.

Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar makes a nice infinite combo. Add Diregraf Captain or Noxious Ghoul and you get some serious value.

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born + Tombstone Stairwell : Get zombies every turn and dump them into Grimgrin, and you only have to pay the upkeep cost on your own turn. You likely only have to keep this around for a turn or two to get good value out of it.

Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is self-explanatory. In a deck that is nearly mono-black, there's no reason not to run it.

Tutors and Other Tech:

I'm running a number of pieces to get the cards I need. Entomb, Buried Alive and Corpse Connoisseur can grab Gravecrawler or any other creep that we need. I also run regular tutors like Diabolic and Demonic Tutor.

Contamination will lock down the game in this deck. To be fair, it doesn't hit mana rocks, but most players will need more than the 1 or 2 colored mana than they get from those anyway. This deck is fine running it because most of the blue in the deck is control magic, which becomes entirely unnecessary when no one can cast anything.

Stax/Control:

Grave Pact keeps everyones boards clear while I play around in my graveyard.

Call to the Grave accomplishes the same thing but more slowly. The upside is that the requirements to use it are a little less steep. Might switch this for Dictate of Erebos if it ends up being too slow.

Fleshbag Marauder is extremely handy when I can recurse him. Use Coffin Queen on him and he becomes very useful very quickly.

Other Notes:

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Musings and Maybes:

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Key combos	Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Grimgrin, Corpse-Born + Tombstone Stairwell
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	Copy Clone, Thopter 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste
Folders	Zombeh, (NOT MINE) decks, Decks I play