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Scarab God Zombie Combo Goodness

Commander / EDH Combo Control Tribal UB (Dimir) Zombie

mikeintosh


Intro

This is not your typical zombie tribal deck but dedicated combo deck with zombie subtheme and yes, zombie combos! The main goal of the deck is to eliminate early threats with mass removal oh have few blockers to survive into the midgame. Then use attrition to draw bunch of cards, reanimate value creatures, and ultimately combo out with many combos available. Good thing about those combos are that most of the cards work outside the combo for value or synergizes with the rest of your deck.

Disclaimer

In our playgroup we have few cards banned outside the official banlist, mostly broken manarocks. Therefore you won't find your Sol Ring, Mana Crypt or Mana Vault here

Combos

1) Rooftop Storm + Gravecrawler + Altar of Dementia - infinite mill

2) Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar + Diregraf Captain/Plague Belcher/Altar of the Brood/Diregraf Colossus - infinite mill/life loss/zombie tokens

3) Rooftop Storm + Havengul Lich + sac outlet (reccuring Gray Merchant of Asphodel/Fleshbag Marauder/Sidisi, Undead Vizier)

4) Mindcrank + Duskmantle Guildmage - infinite mill

5) Mindcrank + Bloodchief Ascension - infinite mill if Ascension is active

6) Notion Thief + Windfall/Whispering Madness - draw ton of cards and discard all opponents

7) Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Torment of Hailfire - huge drain

Other synergies

1) Cyclonic Rift + Windfall/Whispering Madness

2) Grimgrin, Corpse-Born + Gravecrawler

3) Training Grounds + Geth, Lord of the Vault

Suggestions

Updates Add

Playtested the deck a bit in my group and some thing were obvious – the deck needed more ramp and less underwhelming zombies. Here are the changes I made so far:

Oblivion Stone for Thran Dynamo - 3 Wrath effects seems enough, needed more ramp instead

Chrome Mox for Wayfarer's Bauble – didn’t like the card disadvantage

Coldsteel Heart for Fellwar Stone – comes into play untapped and let me activate opponents' activated abilities of their creatures

Lord of the Accursed for Plague Belcher – Very underwhelming lord in the deck, on the other hand Plague Belcher comboes with Gravecrawler shanenigans

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed for Geth, Lord of the Vault – Mike screams combo (and there is none with him) while Geth doubles down on Scarab's theme Arcane Adaptation for Army of the Damned – That enchanntment didn't have much impact, exchanged for an immediate threat

Curtains' Call for Hero's Downfall – in 3-player game it’s very expensive and usually it’s just one creature you want to remove. Call is cute but Downfall more effective.

Comments

Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

43 - 0 Rares

25 - 0 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.23
Tokens Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders Save deck, Other Ppl's Decks, dimir
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