Scarab God Combo

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Reanimator

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Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 9x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (18)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Walking Ballista

Instant (15)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necromancy

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Creature (2)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Training Grounds

Instant (1)

• 1x Dig Through Time

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This deck is my pet project. After pulling an Invocation The Scarab God in a pack (which was extremely lucky because I never buy sealed product) I became determined to make him as competitive as possible. This deck is pure UB combo with the primary lines being through the graveyard. IF he enters play it is only his Eternalize ability that matters. I couldn't care less about tribal zombie synergies and it would be extremely rare that my opponents lose life or I scry from his first effect.

The primary game plan is Nooze combo. Get Necrotic Ooze into play with Walking Ballista + Phyrexian Devourer in the graveyard. Via Ooze, use Devourer's ability to put an asinine amount of +1/+1 counters on him and then Ballista's ability to ping your opponents all to death. Buried Alive + a reanimation spell is the easiest way to do this. You will want to get this off as quick as possible before drawing too much of your deck and running out of gas for counters.

Mesmeric Orb plays a large roll in this deck. Not only does it fill each players graveyards with potential targets for reanimation, but with either Basalt Monolith or Aphetto Alchemist out you can mill your entire deck. The point of this is to set up a Laboratory Maniac win. Over the course of milling your deck, Narcomoeba comes into play. You then want 2 more creatures on the battlefield to sacrifice for the Flashback cost of Dread Return from the graveyard. You can Unearth Fatestitcher for U, which in turn would let you cast Gravecrawler for B. Another option is playing a land to get back Bloodghast. Sac 3 to return Lab Man to play with no library, just make sure you have cantrip to win.

Another route for a Lab Man win is with Mirror-Mad Phantasm, but requires the help of our general. Get MMP into the graveyard; Entomb is the easiest option. Then use Scarab God's second ability to Eternalize MMP (exile him from the graveyard and put a 4/4 token of him on the battlefield). Activate the token MMP's ability; since it is a token and not the actual card, it will not shuffle into your library. Therefore you end up revealing each card in your library, never finding a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm, and putting all the cards into your graveyard. Flashback Dread Return the same way I mentioned above for Lab Man. Note: with access to enough mana this whole sequence can be done on the end step before your upkeep allowing you to win upon your draw step.

The list is meant for a more competitive meta, namely fast combo and stax decks. It has enough disruption to foil a quicker combo then mine, and a decent midrange game to try to fight through stax in the long run. There are other win cons in there incase the graveyard is cut off. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion, or infinite mana into a Walking Ballista are options. There are a handful of routes to get infinite mana, especially since adding Dramatic Scepter combo.

I may add more to this mini-primer as time goes on, and will almost definitely make further changes as I continue to play. Thanks for checking out the list!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.28
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Morph 2/2 C
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