Why Won't You Die

Commander / EDH* Budget UB (Dimir)

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Mana (44)

• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 7x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Removal (6)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Murder
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Sinister Sabotage
• 1x Swan Song

Zombie (23)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Empty the Pits
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x From Under the Floorboards
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Haunted Dead
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Soul Diviner *f-pre*
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Sacrifice (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

CardDraw (5)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Thought Scour

Commander (1)

Mill (12)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Fleet Swallower *f-pre*
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Startled Awake  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Whispering Madness

Combo (7)

• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Oracle of Dust
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Traumatize

Boardwipe (1)

• 1x Plague Wind

Protection (1)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

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This is my first Commander deck built without using an existing list. I pulled The Scarab God at the HOU prerelease and had to build this. It has mill strategies, lots of recursion and zombies all day long. There are sacrifice effects to protect Buggy (dying is better than exile) and a few extra ways to steal things from your opponent's graveyards.

Fun interactions:

The Xerox - Use The Scarab God's ability to get your opponent's best creature from the graveyard. It is exiled, and you get a token copy. Use Oracle of Dust to get that creature out of exile to thier graveyard, and do it again and again, until you are out of mana!

Storm of the Will - Use Traumatize to dump half your library into the bin. Use Magus of the Will to enable casting from the graveyard, then drop Rooftop Storm and cast all your zombies from the graveyard for free. Get Diregraf Colossus out first to get a ton of counters and a token for each other zombie cast, then finish with Gray Merchant of Asphodel and drink in that black devotion.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Commander Decks