The Scarab Reigns Supreme

Commander / EDH Cycling Tokens WUB (Esper) Zombie

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Creature (33)

• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Hordewing Skaab
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Lost Monarch of Ifnir
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant
• 1x Ratadrabik of Urborg
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Rhet-Tomb Mystic
• 1x Rot Hulk
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Zombie Master
• 1x Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Land (33)

• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 4x Plains
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Three Tree City
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Matzalantli, the Great Door  ^Flip
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wand of Orcus

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Necroduality
• 1x On Wings of Gold
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Renewed Solidarity
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Smothering TitheGC
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Zombie Infestation

Instant (5)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Gisa, the Hellraiser
• 1x Obsessive Stitcher
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Wonder

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Lazotep Chancellor
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Varina, Lich Queen
• 1x Vizier of the Scorpion

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Feast of Sanity
• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Necromancer's Covenant
• 1x Oblivion Crown
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Chant

Instant (4)

• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grimoire of the Dead

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A lot of decks will use Hashaton, Scarab's Fist to get out big costing good creatures for cheap. I wanted to use him to get a ton of zombie token copy creatures and run a more traditional zombie tribal deck.

Since we now have him, part of the build was to only consider zombie creatures, I added some good cards that should be considered such as Gisa and Geralf to the sideboard that should probably go into a deck like this but won't as they aren't zombies. the maybeboard are other zombies that were considered but weren't put in for one reason or another they might go in at a later date depending on how this version currently preforms.

Please feel free to make any and all suggestions.

Combos:

We have the traditional zombie combos that you will see in most decks:

Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm + Grimgrin, Corpse-Born for infinite ETB/Death Triggers and Grimgrin getting to be a huge counter boi

Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm + Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar for infinite ETB/Death Triggers and either colored or colorless mana

Anointed Procession + Renewed Solidarity is not infinite but gets x3 tokens at end of turn for every token that came in this turn. Thought is to abuse this with Hashaton, Scarab's Fist or Cleaver Skaab

Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant is mostly in here to abuse with Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Ratadrabik of Urborg along with token doublers. Can also be used as a board wipe if things are going poorly.

Top Ranked	Achieved #23 position overall 3 weeks ago Achieved #13 position in Commander / EDH 2 weeks ago Achieved #6 position in Commander / EDH Tokens 2 weeks ago
Date added	1 month
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 1 Mythic Rares 49 - 3 Rares 18 - 2 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, Waker of the Dead, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Rogue 2/2 UB, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B
Folders	Token Gen, untap decks to try