The More the Better - Scarab God Creature Control

Commander / EDH* Control Reanimator UB (Dimir)

Nightdragon779

Creature (28)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Oracle of Dust
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Void Winnower

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 10x Island
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 14x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (12)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wheel and Deal

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Training Grounds

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Whispering Madness

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Oracle of Dust
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Dread Summons

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Rhystic Study

Instant (1)

• 1x Dizzy Spell

Artifact (2)

• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Mindcrank

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This is a Scarab God EDH that aims to break the second ability as much as possible. The thing I love most about this deck is that almost everything can be done at instant speed.

Main Engines

Training Grounds - probably the most important card in this deck. Allowing you to use The Scarab God's ability for only UB is very very powerful.

Altar of Dementia - triggers many things in this deck, your main sacrifice engine - also mills people for their creatures.

Ghoulcaller Gisa - very powerful card, allows you to punch holes through your own creatures to make them spill zombies. Fuels The Scarab God's first ability, is a sac outlet (kinda), and creates more sac fodder.

Cryptbreaker - good discard engine - discard stuff you want to reanimate, get more zombies, tap zombies for cars advantage, very powerful card.

Wheels! - Used to fill everyone's graveyards for your wants and needs.

Powerful ETBs

The Primordials - Diluvian Primordial allows you to steal instants and sorceries and Sepulchral Primordial allows you to steal creatures

Torrential Gearhulk - since you're playing almost everything at instant speed, this gives value twice, the first time you use it you can use it to counter/destroy something. You can sacrifice it to one of the many sacrifice engines in the deck, and then pay 4 to replay another instant.

Noxious Gearhulk, Shriekmaw and Overseer of the Damned - removal. Twice.

Massacre Wurm - a few playests revealed that I wanted a boardwipe on an etb. Remembered this card. Awesome.

Sower of Temptation - recently came upon this card but it looks really good here.

Venser, Shaper Savant /Draining Whelk - all around annoying card, and along with Torrential Gearhulk, other players have to live in constant fear of you countering them.

Broken Passive Effects

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur - Oh they are going to hate you so so much.

Sheoldred, Whispering One - she's being used mostly for her second ability - we want other people sacrificing their creatures

Void Winnower - very annoying card to play around, also blocks many of the boardwipes.

Other cool interactions

Entomb + The Scarab God's second ability to flash in any creature in your deck.

Geier Reach Sanitarium + Notion Thief - you draw 4 discard one, they only discard one.

Misthollow Griffin - getting mana flooded? Indefinitely create 4/4 flyers then.

Oracle of Dust - Processing! Thank you StopShot An ability most of us forgot about! A very interesting way to use a kind of reversed Misthollow Griffin effect to keep creating copies of an opponent's creature that you like. If only there was a way to process yourself :( It's definitely interesting and worth a try. Oracle of Dust is probably the best one for this deck because it provides card advantage, let's you discard things you want to eternalize, and processes your opponents creatures to copy again, all in one ability.

I'd love to here other suggestions, they are greatly appreciated!

Top Ranked	Achieved #42 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.86
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Decks I play, Decks to try, Commander, Faves, EDH