Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Commander / EDH

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Creature (34)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Grave-Shell Scarab
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Imposing Sovereign
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Necroplasm
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Varolz, the Scar-Striped
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
• 1x Yavimaya Elder
• 1x Yavimaya Granger

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 7x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 5x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Oblivion Ring

Artifact (6)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (8)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Putrefy

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Vigor Mortis

Commander (1)

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Creature (2)

• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Twilight Shepherd

Artifact (2)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Eldrazi Monument

Instant (2)

• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Unmake

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This is My Karador, Ghost Chieftain EDH deck. Without further ado, I will jump into the deck's strategy:

Early Game:

The main strategy here is to quickly build up mana with cards like Harrow or artifacts like Darksteel Ingot. The next idea is to recur usages of Yavimaya Elder or Dawntreader Elk whenever possible.

In addition, dumping cards into the graveyard with Mulch, Grisly Salvage, cheap Sacrifices, and Dredge are key. I tend to greedily dredge as early as possible, so I can cast Karador as quickly as possible.

Mid Game:

This is when I like to gain card advantage most through a combo using Karador, Reveillark, Eternal Witness, Solemn Simulacrum, and a sacc outlet.If You drop a Skull Clamp on any of these, it is insane. I have drawn a full hand off a single cycle. But I rarely stop at one.

Here is also where I try to gradually build up my board state, as I have rapidly become the threat. Needless to say, a hand full of nastiness really doesn't matter when there may not be another turn. So I tend to hold on to removal and build up my board state, and when someone is brave enough to swing, I shut them down. Spore Frog is also a star mid-late game in terms of keeping me alive.

Late Game:

I tend to combo out here with Melira + Kitchen Finks + Archangel of Thune or simply sacc and recur Craterhoof Behemoth or Avenger of Zendikar. It can be nasty, brutish, and unfair, and it doesn't help I am playing every good removal heavy colors that help stop counterattacks, or turn a losing tide in my favor.

Major weakness I cannot get around:

Boujuka Bog, Relic of Progenitus, Tormod's Crypt.

Please help??

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.68
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Human 2/2 G, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Wolf 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B