Gravewater

Commander / EDH Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Lands (36)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 3x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 8x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Witch's Clinic

Counterdead & Protection (5)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Resurrection Orb

Hand Discard/Exile (4)

• 1x Agonizing Remorse
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Distress
• 1x Thoughtseize

Counterspell (3)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Disallow

Sacrifice Abuse (3)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Plague Belcher

Zombie Tokens & Duplication (13)

• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Headless Rider
• 1x Necroduality
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Poppet Stitcher  ^Flip
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Tombstone Stairwell
• 1x Wand of Orcus

Bounce (5)

• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Recoil

Graveyard to Battlefield (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Persist
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Rot Hulk

Mana & Spell Cost Reduction (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Sol Ring

Lifegain (3)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Commander (1)

Tutors (6)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Buffers (5)

• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Filth
• 1x Gisa, the Hellraiser
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Undead Warchief

Draw Cards (4)

• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Undead Augur

Creature Removal (3)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly

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Other (2)

• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Noxious Ghoul

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Deck Theme

Zombie Horde

• Overwhelm with huge numbers of Zombie Tokens and Zombie Duplication
• Creatures, Spells and Abilities that support the boyz
• Creatures that won't stay dead
• Bounce & Discard

Tutor Priority

Tutor to Hand Priority

• Necropotence (Card Draw)
• Lim-Dul's Vault (Card Draw)
• Buried Alive (Card Draw)
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (Swampwalk Enabler)
• Whip of Erebos or Vensor's Journal (Lifelink)
• Rooftop Storm or Necroduality (Free Zombies/Duplicate Zombies)

Tutor to Graveyard Priority

• Gary (Life Gain/Player Damage)
• Rothulk (Resurrect Zombies)
• Ravenous Rotbelly (Creature Removal)

Combos

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Wilhelt & Poppet Factory (Infinite Zombie Token Replacements)

• Wilhelt creates Zombie Tokens with Decayed
• Poppet Factory removes Decayed ability from Tokens
• Now when a Zombie Token dies, Wilhelt will try to make a Token with Decayed to replace it but the Decayed ability gets removed, so the Token replaces itself with another Decayless Zombie Token.
• Repeat

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Carrion Feeder & Ghoulcaller Gisa (Doubles Zombie Tokens)

• Sacrifice a bunch of Zombie Tokens
• Slap Carrion Feeder with Ghoulcaller Gisa

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Mikaeus, The Unhallowed & Soul Cauldron (Perma Undying/Persist)

• Mikaeus Undying gives +1/+1 Counters when a Creature dies
• Cauldron Persist gives -1/-1 Counters when a Creature dies
• When a creature dies these two counters cancel each other out allowing Undying and Persist to trigger again the next time they die.

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Strategies & Tactics

Early Game

Tutoring, Setting up the Graveyard, Getting Draw Cards in play

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Tutor Necropotence and other Draw Cards to your hand and get into play ASAP. Next Tutor Lifelink cards like Whip of Erebos or Venser's Journal to keep you alive until backup arise.

Using Tutor to Graveyard spells like Buried Alive, Entomb, Unmarked Grave put Priority Creatures into the Graveyard.

Pull Creatures like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Rot Hulk, Grave Titan back to the Battlefield cheap using Animate Dead, Persist, Reanimate

Early to Mid Game

Setting up Zombie buffs and Combos

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Summon Commander & Tutor for Poppet Stitcher   ASAP to upgrade your 2/2 Decayed Zombie Tokens into self-replacing normal 3/3 Zombie Tokens. (Combo)

Put Artifacts/Enchantments like Resurrection Orb, Kaya's Ghostform onto Creatures like Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Grave Titan to start triggering massive Enter the Battlefield effects.

Get Enchantments like Endless Ranks of the Dead, Necroduality to start massing Tokens & Zombie Copies

Mid Game to Late Game

Enabling mass resurrection, Final win conditions

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Get Rooftop Storm onto the Battlefield ASAP

Get both Cauldron of Souls and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed to give all your creatures perma-undying/persist and attack freely every turn.

Dictate of Erebos + Carrion Feeder/Zombie 2/2 B to wipe the board of Opponent creatures. Also get Noxious Ghoul and Tombstone Stairwell in play to amplify this effect to any surviving creatures they may have.

Top Ranked	Achieved #18 position overall 5 months ago Achieved #14 position in Commander / EDH 5 months ago Achieved #6 position in Commander / EDH Tokens 5 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Rogue 2/2 UB
Folders	Daisy's Undead Mill