Hour of the Scarab God

Commander / EDH Control Mill Reanimator Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

Valius

Creature (23)

• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Training Grounds

Land (35)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 7x Island
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 1x Opal Palace
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Instant (9)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Languish
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Eye of Vecna
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Hand of Vecna
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x The Book of Vile Darkness

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana Vess

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This deck is a thing of beauty. Probably too many themes going on at once, but I think they all kind of meld together into one, horrifyingly elegant nightmare.

Mill opponents, mill ourself, attack with zombies.

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Strategies:

There are a few ways to win:
1) Zombie Swarm with all our token producers.
2) scarab god upkeep triggers, compounded with Paradox Haze
3) Mill using the MANY ways to do that.
4) Combos.

A key card to try to tutor or scru into is Mesmeric Orb. This baby will fill everyone’s graveyards. The deck works without it, but it works even better with it.

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Notable Combos

Buried Alive + Necrotic Ooze . This is a great way to get access to every useful activated ability in the deck, and does it quick.

Hinder + Tunnel Vision . Counter a spell, send it to the bottom, mill their whole deck.

Keening Stone + Traumatize . Standard instant death. Also doble with Fraying Sanity + Traumatize .

Notion Thief + Teferi's Puzzle Box . Only I can have a hand!

Laboratory Maniac + Tunnel Vision . Sure we can Hinder a card to the bottom of an opponent’s deck then Tunnel them out of the game, but why not scry with Scarab God, Tunnel ourself, then reanimate a Lab Maniac and win the whole thing?

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Hinder + Tunnel Vision Buried Alive + Necrotic Ooze Keening Stone + Traumatize Fraying Sanity + Traumatize Laboratory Maniac + Tunnel Vision Notion Thief + Teferi's Puzzle Box
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.55
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Vecna, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB