Scarab until I think of something funny

Commander / EDH UB (Dimir)

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Creature (22)

• 1x Acererak the Archlich
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Champion of the Perished
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Havengul Runebinder
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Plague Engineer
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Soulless One
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Wonder

Artifact (9)

• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Locket
• 1x Gate to the Afterlife
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Gift
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Crawl from the Cellar
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rain of Tears
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Walk the Plank
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Instant (12)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 9x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 18x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Dread Slaver
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born *oversized*
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Instant (1)

• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard

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Gameplan:

1. Easiest method of victory - Play The Scarab God, reanimate things in GY's, drain opponents, scry for more good cards. Cards that make a lot of zombies are really good here to help drain faster. Problem with this gameplan is the cards that make a lot of zombies aren't necessarily good on their own. Having 10 2/2 zombies is good when they're draining 10 per turn, but on their own don't put up much of a fight. If The Scarab God is removed then it slows the gameplan down a bit until you can get him back. Spark Double helps speed this along and adds some redundancy if The Scarab God gets removed.

2. Backup of this gameplan 1 is Shepherd of Rot, but the obvious issue is it drains you too. Unless you start this process with a higher life total it can easily kill you in the process. A good use of Shepherd of Rot is to end step activate before your turn, attack who you need to to bring their life total lower than yours and then activate again to finish them off. Spark Double can also help speed this along, too. Last resort, it can be a doomsday switch if someone tries to kill you.

3. Second easiest - Zombie good stuff. Grave Titan, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, God-Eternal Bontu, Gisa and Geralf are all just good to have on the battlefield and usually help you build a big board to either defend until you can do plan 1/2, or eventually work with plan 4 to win.

4. Third easiest - Zombie lords. There are a handful of lords in the deck that combined with the other zombies will just give you a board state to stomp over everyone.

5. Random infinite combo - Acererak the Archlich + Rooftop Storm is an infinite win combo

Besides those, there's creature removal, counterspells and tutors/cantrips to help get rid of the bad cards and find the good cards you need.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.39
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dungeon: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Goblin 1/1 R, Skeleton 1/1 B, The Atropal, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Scarab God Consideration