Iandoto's The Scarab God - Stax / Combo

Commander / EDH* Artifact Competitive Control Mill Stax UB (Dimir)

Iandoto

Land (29)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Pit
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 4x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (9)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Instant (23)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Delay
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Whir of Invention
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Artifact (20)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Winter Orb

Creature (5)

• 1x Crafty Cutpurse *f-pre*
• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Twilight Prophet

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mana Maze

Artifact (2)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Isochron Scepter

Creature (1)

• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Reshape

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Seer's Vision
• 1x Waste Not

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Creature (2)

• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Fatespinner

Artifact (2)

• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Tangle Wire

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This deck in it’s current iteration is aimed to be anti-creature. This list can reasonably Flex between casual metas and also sit down with cEDH lists. The nice thing about having The Scarab God as a commander is its ability to dodge commander tax while also using other players creature threats against them (primary use vs casual pods).

The game plan is to hit your land drops / early ramp, to then start dropping stax pieces. You should be utilizing your card draw engines and tutors to sculpt your hand and control the tempo of the game, preventing other players from winning outright, while continuing to work towards one of the many avenues to victory.

Win Cons

There are a few different options to go with here

1. Dramatic Scepter combo for infinite mana + Torment of Hailfire or Reservoir

2. Mindcrank / Blood Chief Ascension combo - this is mostly here because both cards synergize so well with the general game plan and can really throw people off when milling away options

3. Throwing down a huge Exsanguinate / Army of the Damned with some counter spell back up

4. Aggro beats & life drain with Scarab God / Zombie tokens

5. Mechanized production on a mana rock or altar of the brood etc.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 2 Mythic Rares 46 - 5 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 14 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Scarab God Edh