The Ultimate Scarab God Deck

Commander / EDH Infinite Combo Mill Reanimator UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Creature (29)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gnawing Zombie
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One *f-pre*
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur *f-pre*

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Land (36)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 7x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x The Immortal Sun

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Zombie Infestation
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Wound Reflection
• 1x Grave Betrayal

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Mind Bomb
• 1x Restless Dreams
• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

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Sorcery (4)

• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Destroy the Evidence

Creature (2)

• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Beguiler of Wills

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Forced Fruition

Instant (2)

• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Psychic Spiral

Artifact (3)

• 1x Disrupting Scepter
• 1x Bloodsoaked Altar
• 1x The Magic Mirror

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sorin Markov

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The basic premise of how this deck works is by getting The Scarab God onto the battlefield as quickly as possible, discarding expensive creatures and recurring them with Scarab God while creating a value engine with affordable creatures to flood the battlefield and ping everyone for more and more damage every turn. There are numerous synergies and combos in this deck. All of them that I've found are below. Enjoy!

Card Draw Engines:

Cryptbreaker , Kindred Discovery , Midnight Reaper , Rhystic Study , Ayara, First of Locthwain and The Immortal Sun

Interesting Interactions:

Escalating Damage Combo:

Paradox Haze + The Scarab God + Wound Reflection . The Scarab God 's upkeep ability triggers and then triggers again because of Paradox Haze dealing essentially double damage. Then the endstep roles around and Wound Reflection doubles the damage again.

Additional Cards That Spiral The Combo Out of Control:

Strionic Resonator , Endless Ranks of the Dead , Sower of Discord

Escalating Field Mill/Zombie Factory Effect:

Mindcrank + The Scarab God + Undead Alchemist . Scarab God's upkeep ability triggers Mindcrank which then mills everyone triggering Undead Alchemist , producing zombies for every creature that enters the graveyard.

Additional Cards That Spiral The Combo Out of Control:

Strionic Resonator , Endless Ranks of the Dead , Sower of Discord , Wound Reflection

Altar of the Brood will kick this simple 3 card combo into overdrive, especially since you can get 2 proc's with a single fetch land, exponentially multiplying the mill combo and killing everyone simultaneously.

Field Wide Infinite Mill/Damage Win Condition:

Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank + The Scarab God . Requires Bloodchief Ascension to have 3 counters first and The Scarab God 's upkeep ability to trigger.

Stealing Attacking Creatures:

Grave Betrayal + No Mercy And just eat the damage. You'll gain it back eventually.

Potential Upkeep Field Wipes:

Endless Ranks of the Dead + Noxious Ghoul Lets say you created (5) 2/2 Zombie Creature tokens at the beginning of your upkeep. Now all Non-Zombie creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn. Double this effect with Paradox Haze / Strionic Resonator

Undying Zombies With Token Production:

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Open the Graves Sac a non-token creature through attacking, blocking or sacrificing and return it to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter and a new 2/2 Zombie friend to accompany him.

Gain Large Amounts of Life Every Upkeep:

Exquisite Blood + The Scarab God

Ayara, First of Locthwain + Endless Ranks of the Dead + Exquisite Blood . Double these two combos with Strionic Resonator to add insult to injury.

Other Infinite Combos:

Using Phyrexian Altar to kill:

Gravecrawler + Open the Graves + Rooftop Storm / Diregraf Colossus for infinite tokens.

Grave Pact + Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm / Noxious Ghoul for infinite one sided field wipes. Add in Grave Betrayal to steal all creatures that die to this effect.

Door of Destinies + Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm for infinite +1/+1 counters on all zombies.

Gravecrawler + Plague Belcher + Rooftop Storm / Vengeful Dead / Diregraf Captain / Ayara, First of Locthwain for infinite damage.

I plan to use this deck frequently so if you have any suggestions to make it even more broken, I'm all ears

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Gravecrawler + Plague Belcher + Rooftop Storm Endless Ranks of the Dead + Noxious Ghoul Door of Destinies + Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm Exquisite Blood + The Scarab God Paradox Haze + The Scarab God + Wound Reflection Mindcrank + The Scarab God + Undead Alchemist Grave Betrayal + No Mercy Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank + The Scarab God Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Open the Graves Gravecrawler + Open the Graves + Rooftop Storm Grave Pact + Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm Ayara, First of Locthwain + Endless Ranks of the Dead + Exquisite Blood
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB
Folders	Zombiiiiiiie, Bullshit, Role models, Inspiration, Scarab god, ScRab god, Edh, decks I want to remember, EDH decks, Prototypes