Surveil & Draw Self-Mill

Commander / EDH Dredge Mill Primer Reanimator UB (Dimir) Zombie

dryhamm

Mana Fixing (11)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Locket
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Self-Mill (7)

• 1x Grave Strength
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Paradigm Shift
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Traumatize

Surveil (5)

• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Dream Eater
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Sinister Sabotage

Consider-Cutting (3)

• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Evoke (3)

• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Street Wraith

Rattlesnake (3)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh

Graveyard Mana (2)

• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Songs of the Damned

Win Con (2)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Laboratory Maniac

Draw X (1)

• 1x Pull from Tomorrow

Filter/Self-Mill (1)

• 1x Fact or Fiction

Full-Self-Mill (1)

• 1x Doomsday

Control (8)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Dream Eater
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Necrotic Wound
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Sinister Sabotage

Draw (7)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Tutor (6)

• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon

Graveyard Buff (4)

• 1x Grave Strength
• 1x Graveblade Marauder
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nighthowler

Cycle (3)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Lonely Sandbar

Graveyard Tutor (3)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Entomb

Doomsday (2)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Street Wraith

Last-Gasp (2)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Living Death

Board-Wipe (1)

• 1x Living Death

Filter (1)

• 1x Brainstorm

Leveler Fetcher (1)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Commander (1)

Reanimator (7)

• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Tempt with Immortality
• 1x The Eldest Reborn

Land (25)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 11x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 11x Swamp

Cantrip (3)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Gitaxian Probe

Dredge (3)

• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Stinkweed Imp

Ramp (3)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Sol Ring

Entomb Target (2)

• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh

Other (2)

• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Board Wipe (1)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift

Surveil X (1)

• 1x Doom Whisperer

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Sideboard

Control (2)

• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Hero's Downfall

Draw (1)

• 1x Dismiss

Other (1)

• 1x Liliana's Elite

Backup-Win-Con (1)

• 1x Mortal Combat

Full-Self-Mill (1)

• 1x Leveler

Self-Mill (1)

• 1x Spoils of the Vault

Board-Wipe (1)

• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk

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Maybeboard

Reanimator (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Unearth

Doomsday (4)

• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song

Filter/Self-Mill (3)

• 1x Ancestral Memories
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Frantic Search

Draw Replacement (2)

• 1x Taigam, Sidisi's Hand
• 1x Yawgmoth's Bargain

Surveil (2)

• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Notion Rain

Graveyard Cast (1)

• 1x Mission Briefing

Land (1)

• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Tutor (7)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Mystical Teachings

Self-Mill (5)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Charmed Pendant
• 1x Crow of Dark Tidings
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Filter (3)

• 1x Failed Inspection
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain

Control (2)

• 1x Failed Inspection
• 1x Swan Song

Ramp (2)

• 1x Charmed Pendant
• 1x Mind Stone

Cantrip (1)

• 1x Ponder

Mana Fixing (1)

• 1x Morphic Pool

Draw (6)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Yawgmoth's Bargain

Other (5)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Sire of Stagnation

Evoke (3)

• 1x Flash
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Shriekmaw

Ashiok Combo (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Mist of Stagnation

Full-Self-Mill (2)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Tainted Pact

Board-Wipe (1)

• 1x Night Incarnate

Reanimator-ish (1)

• 1x Body Double

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Priority Cards to Entomb

When you cast Buried Alive, always pick Vengeful Pharaoh as one of your 3 creatures, then pick 2 bruisers, that are too high of mana to cast anyways (and so we'll use Stitch Together(threshold), Dread Return, etc. to cheat them onto the battlefield instead). When I say "Bruisers" I mean cards like Grave Titan or better yet Sheoldred, Whispering One (which can also help you to recover other creatures from your graveyard).

Also, it's worth pointing out that about the only way you'll ever get Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur onto the battlefield is via the graveyard, so never pass an opportunity to discard him when surveiling.

Deck Changes Show

• Crucible of Worlds was never really that necessary to this deck. Just don't cycle lands thinking you can get them back later, because you can't anymore. Gonna try Tempt with Immortality in its place, since I should always have the deepest graveyard.
• Academy Ruins With so few artifacts in the deck, and none that were really necessary, the Ruins made even less sense than Crucible, and it was really only in to get Crucible back. Replaced it with an Island
• Replace Liliana Vess with a REAL tutor (for now this is Dark Petition, which is terrible except for maybe in decks like this one). Her -2 ability can't be used except on my turn, so without a way to draw immediately, I'll probably mill away the card on accident.
• Replace Filth with Street Wraith. I rarely actually need all my things to be unblockable, and because Filth is basically worthless until he's buried, he was taking up my primary entomb spots. Street Wraith can also be unblock-able if needed, but mostly it's a cycle to put a body in the graveyard and get me another card. Useful for a Doomsday payload as well.

Cards you must keep out of your Graveyard:

1. Your Planeswalkers, especially Jace, Wielder of Mysteries and to a lesser extent Karn, the Great Creator
2. Very important Sorcery & Instants: Grave Strength, Doomsday, plus your two board-wipes Living Death and Cyclonic Rift(overloaded) Laboratory Maniac is actually alright to let enter the graveyard, so long as nobody has stolen Lazav from you.

Dealing with the banes of your existence

• Ground Seal, Nihil Spellbomb, Tormod's Crypt, Rest in Peace, ... if one of your friends has a graveyard hate artifact or enchantment in their deck then you will need to include Nevinyrral's Disk (and Fabricate to retrieve it, or just Mastermind's Acquisition so you can get to it without putting it in your deck) as a nuclear option to get rid of it, because Dimir doesn't have target enchantment or artifact removal.
• Better yet, if your "friends" are big enough dicks to all include graveyard hate, then just put in all your tutors Mystical Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Diabolic Tutor, (Demonic Tutor is already in) use one of the black tutors to get Laboratory Maniac and any of them can chain to Mastermind's Acquisition to get Leveler from your sideboard and just deck yourself as soon as possible once you get Lab Man on the board. Follow up with a draw spell and flip them all the bird.
• Whereas if they hit you with something like Bojuka Bog (something that doesn't have ongoing exile ability) early on, you can likely still restart the strategy with your remaining cards and have a chance, otherwise, you'll have to try and mill out a win with Lab Man.

Key Combos:

• Laboratory Maniac + Leveler , or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries + Leveler Note: I've subbed Karn, the Great Creator in place of Leveler so that you can't accidentally exile your library if you Living Death with Leveler in the graveyard (which I have done before), since Leveler won't even be in your deck until you're ready for this combo to go off.

Win Conditions

1. Bestow Nighthowler onto something big (like Doom Whisperer or Grave Titan) making it something massive. This way Nighthowler makes immediate impact, bypassing summoning sickness and if they kill or exile it (Yes, please do Swords to Plowshares my 20/20 creature, I would love to get 20 life while my creature only loses 6/6) you still have it as a big creature afterwards.
2. If your opponents have a massive board state (while you don't), but you have a big graveyard (and they don't) then you are in position to Living Death and flip the script on them. This will nerf your Nighthowler, but the creatures you get back should more than make up for that. It's not like they're all going to be 1/1s.
3. If you put Mirror-Mad Phantasm into your graveyard, know that you can have Lazav become it and trigger a full deck self-mill (Note: This will put Lazav back in Command Zone despite not being named "Mirror-Mad Phantasm"). You can do this as soon as you have Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries in play. Note: Consider adding Necrotic Ooze since it could also do this.
4. Keep milling yourself and play Laboratory Maniac. If you're lucky, you'll get Pull from Tomorrow to really pick up the pace. If Lab Man is in the graveyard, Lazav can take over for him.
5. Doomsday is a bit of a desperation move, since there's no going back if it doesn't work out, so you'll either win quickly or lose quickly, however with the correct payload it should be effective. With Lab Man in play, you only need and 9+ life with Doomsday in hand you can win on your turn. Precise mana cost is + + + . If you didn't have Lab Man already in play you'll have to grab him with doomsday and come up with the extra to play him before you deck yourself.
6. If Lab Man is exiled then get to Jace, Wielder of Mysteries ASAP.
7. If Lab Man is exiled and you lost Jace, you'll have to Mastermind's Acquisition yourself up Mortal Combat from your sideboard instead.

Doomsday payload

Reminder: Cycling is instant speed.

1. Laboratory Maniac (if not already on battlefield)
2. Brainstorm
3. Street Wraith {2 life}
4. Visions of Beyond
5. Barren Moor
6. Gitaxian Probe Play this first!

Changes I'm considering Show

Potential Combos to add:

• Bolas's Citadel to combo with Golgari Thug's death trigger.
• Flash lets you evoke any card you only need the ETB or death trigger of, like Corpse Connoisseur or Golgari Thug or Rune-Scarred Demon
• Magus of the Will + Lotus Petal + Dark Ritual + Cabal Ritual + Tendrils of Agony
• If I add Magus of the Will, I should also consider adding Lightning Greaves to keep him safe from people trying to Murder him as soon as he hits the battlefield and because it allows me to use his ability immediately. I should also add Body Double in case I need another shot at using him (or anything else that got killed)

Cards I would love to have that are too expensive for this deck:

1. Yawgmoth's Will

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Laboratory Maniac + Leveler Jace, Wielder of Mysteries + Leveler
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 4 Rares 24 - 3 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.68
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander Decks