Night of the Dead

Commander / EDH Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Creature (29)

• 1x Bladestitched Skaab
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Headless Rider
• 1x Hordewing Skaab
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Overcharged Amalgam
• 1x Prowling Geistcatcher
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly
• 1x Spark Reaper
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Vile Entomber

Instant (5)

• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rise of the Dread Marn
• 1x Snap
• 1x Withering Boon

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 2x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 7x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Eaten Alive
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Ghouls' Night Out
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Necroduality
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Poppet Stitcher  ^Flip
• 1x Undead Warchief

Land (3)

• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rhystic Study

Instant (1)

• 1x Lazotep Plating

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Pact of the Serpent
• 1x Rite of Replication

Artifact (1)

• 1x Heraldic Banner

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Rot Hulk
• 1x Tainted Adversary
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Zombie Master

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Kindred Dominance

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Necroduality
• 1x Tombstone Stairwell

Instant (2)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift

Artifact (3)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Wand of Orcus

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Starting point: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver - Undead Unleashed Pre-con

I like to pick decks based on fun themes rather than "the best" competitive deck available. Zombie movies are a staple in my house so I knew once I started playing magic, I wanted to build a zombie tribal deck. With the recent release of the Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver pre-con, this was an opportunity to jump start my zombie horde without a huge initial investment.

As my good friend told me, always know how you want to win the game prior to constructing your deck so the first and foremost win condition here will be overwhelming opponents with a zombie horde and boosting their power with a few "Night King" creatures.

Token Generators

• Ghoulcaller Gisa
• Poppet Stitcher  
• Cryptbreaker
• Army of the Damned
• Crowded Crypt
• Dark Salvation
• Diregraf Colossus
• Field of the Dead
• Liliana's Mastery
• Liliana, Death's Majesty
• Necrotic Hex
• Noosegraf Mob
• Rise of the Dread Marn
• Undead Alchemist
• Headless Rider

Anthem Cards

• Undead Warchief
• Lord of the Undead
• Heraldic Banner
• Bladestitched Skaab
• Cemetery Reaper
• Death Baron
• Diregraf Captain
• Liliana's Mastery
• Lord of the Accursed
• Tomb Tyrant

Next, since death by slow trample isn't our only potential win condition, let's list out some of the other ways this deck can win.

Combo #1

With Gravecrawler's unique ability of being played from the graveyard for 1B as long another zombie is in play, it will be a major focal point to one of our alternate win conditions.

• Gravecrawler + Sacrifice outlet (Ashnod's Altar) + Rooftop Storm + Damage opponent on death (Bastion of Remembrance)
• This kind of 4 card combo has multiple choices for a sacrifice outlet and for damaging an opponent on death. Rooftop Storm allows you to do this loop infinite times but even without it, if you have enough damage effects on creature death, you can take down your enemy with only a bit of mana.

Sacrifice Outlets

• Altar of Dementia
• Ashnod's Altar
• Carrion Feeder
• Cleaver Skaab
• Pyre of Heroes

Damage on Death Effects

• Plague Belcher
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Diregraf Captain
• The Meathook Massacre
• Vengeful Dead

*Note: You can replace Rooftop Storm + Gravecrawler in the combo with Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver and Poppet Factory to the same effect. This allows you to infinitely sacrifice zombie tokens to create infinite death triggers.

Combo #2

An additional simple 2 card combo that can be played is Rite of Replication (with the kicker) and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. When you cast Rite of Replication paying the Kicker's cost to create five copies of Gray Merchant of Asphodel, the enter the battlefield trigger and all copies will trigger at the same time. Each will compute 12 devotion to black as each copy adds 2 (original + 5 copies = 6 x 2 = 12). Your opponents will lose 72 life and you will gain 72 life.

Combo #3

What's a zombie deck without the potential to create a slow, shambling tide of death with the soul purpose of consuming our opponents brains? Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver allows us to do just that with this 5 card combo.

Gravecrawler + Any free sacrifice outlet such as Altar of Dementia + Rooftop Storm + a transformed Poppet Stitcher   + Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver allows us to create an infinite number of enter the battle field and death triggers.

• Sacrifice Gravecrawler
• Wilhelt's ability will trigger, creating a zombie token with decayed
• Poppet Factory removes abilities from creature tokens (goodbye decayed) and gives them a base toughness of 3/3.
• Recast Gravecrawler from the graveyard using Rooftop Storm
• Revel in your growing army!

*Notes:

• You can remove Rooftop Storm from this combo if you have a way to generate additional mana through the sacrifice. If your sac outlet is Phyrexian Altar, you make back enough mana to continuously cast Gravecrawler.
• If you don't have Rooftop Storm out, you can still get some good mileage out of this combo if you have a Headless Rider on the board. The trigger will stack with Wilhelt's so you get 2 zombies for every sacrifice. You can push this even further if Necroduality is available as every time Gravecrawler comes back into play you'll gain an extra token copy that loses it's abilities and becomes a 3/3 via Poppet Factory, so each sacrifice and return you'll get 2 + 1 new tokens generated.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 2 Mythic Rares 40 - 9 Rares 22 - 4 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.39
Tokens	Copy Clone, Foretell, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Berserker 2/2 B