pie chart

The More the Better - Scarab God Creature Control

Commander / EDH* Control Reanimator UB (Dimir)

Nightdragon779


Maybeboard


This is a Scarab God EDH that aims to break the second ability as much as possible. The thing I love most about this deck is that almost everything can be done at instant speed.

Training Grounds - probably the most important card in this deck. Allowing you to use The Scarab God's ability for only UB is very very powerful.

Altar of Dementia - triggers many things in this deck, your main sacrifice engine - also mills people for their creatures.

Ghoulcaller Gisa - very powerful card, allows you to punch holes through your own creatures to make them spill zombies. Fuels The Scarab God's first ability, is a sac outlet (kinda), and creates more sac fodder.

Cryptbreaker - good discard engine - discard stuff you want to reanimate, get more zombies, tap zombies for cars advantage, very powerful card.

Wheels! - Used to fill everyone's graveyards for your wants and needs.

The Primordials - Diluvian Primordial allows you to steal instants and sorceries and Sepulchral Primordial allows you to steal creatures

Torrential Gearhulk - since you're playing almost everything at instant speed, this gives value twice, the first time you use it you can use it to counter/destroy something. You can sacrifice it to one of the many sacrifice engines in the deck, and then pay 4 to replay another instant.

Noxious Gearhulk, Shriekmaw and Overseer of the Damned - removal. Twice.

Massacre Wurm - a few playests revealed that I wanted a boardwipe on an etb. Remembered this card. Awesome.

Sower of Temptation - recently came upon this card but it looks really good here.

Venser, Shaper Savant /Draining Whelk - all around annoying card, and along with Torrential Gearhulk, other players have to live in constant fear of you countering them.

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur - Oh they are going to hate you so so much.

Sheoldred, Whispering One - she's being used mostly for her second ability - we want other people sacrificing their creatures

Void Winnower - very annoying card to play around, also blocks many of the boardwipes.

Entomb + The Scarab God's second ability to flash in any creature in your deck.

Geier Reach Sanitarium + Notion Thief - you draw 4 discard one, they only discard one.

Misthollow Griffin - getting mana flooded? Indefinitely create 4/4 flyers then.

Oracle of Dust - Processing! Thank you StopShot An ability most of us forgot about! A very interesting way to use a kind of reversed Misthollow Griffin effect to keep creating copies of an opponent's creature that you like. If only there was a way to process yourself :( It's definitely interesting and worth a try. Oracle of Dust is probably the best one for this deck because it provides card advantage, let's you discard things you want to eternalize, and processes your opponents creatures to copy again, all in one ability.

I'd love to here other suggestions, they are greatly appreciated!

Suggestions

Updates Add

Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron .

Ugh I'm so basic.

But here, I'm going to defend myself. Both cards are amazing on their own.

Deadeye Navigator:

The game plan is to pair Deadeye Navigator with something else that has a powerful ETB. Clones (supercool interaction btw), etb counters (whelk and venser), etb destroys (noxious and overseer). When it dies (not likely? But if you fuck up or your opponent catches you off guard). Anyways, it somehow enters the graveyard, wooo bring it back with a different target (just that it can't blink itself this time).

Palinchron:

Something with an etb that powerful should be an autoinclude in his deck, Navigator or not.

So with them pairing with each other, only the Palinchron has to be the original copy.

Once you have your infinite mana, you cast a huge Mind Grind. It's a 3-card combo, It's not that degenerate I swear.

Comments

Top Ranked
  • Achieved #42 position overall 7 years ago
Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

11 - 0 Mythic Rares

45 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

5 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.86
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders Decks I play, Decks to try, Commander, Faves, EDH
Votes
Ignored suggestions
Shared with
Views