There Are Zombies On Your Lawn!

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black Ramp Tokens Zombie

Darkleus31

Creature (27)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Demon of Wailing Agonies
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Artifact (23)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Deathrender
• 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stone Calendar
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Infernal Offering
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Land (30)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 22x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sanguine Bond

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Sorcery (8)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament

Instant (3)

• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tragic Slip

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This deck was mooched off of the Commander 2014 Sworn to Darkness Deck but has since been heavily modified and is now most likely my best deck.

This deck works by slowly or quickly, depending on what you draw, building up mana and then overwhelming your opponents with an onslaught of flying Demons and an army of undead that you can sacrifice to activate various abilities. This deck is absolutely superb in multiplayer but it absolutely has No Mercy (wink, wink) in a 1v1 match.

There is actually only one key combo in this deck that I use to any real degree. This is a combo of my own creation; so before executing this truly marvelous card draw and mana ramp combo you'll need to be sure you have both Myriad Landscape and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen on the field. And in order to find the cards that are used in this combo, use my tutor cards, which are: Liliana Vess, Diabolic Tutor, and Increasing Ambition.

The combo works like this:

Step 1: Cast an Alhammarret's Archive

Step 2: Cast a Burnished Hart + Deathrender + Skullclamp to draw four cards first and then search for two basic lands. Depending on how you set this step up, playing Solemn Simulacrum, Sheoldred, the Whispering One, or some other really good creature for free with Deathrender is very good. This is also when you would then crack Myriad Landscape.

Step 3: Use the various regenerate cards that are abundant throughout the deck, which are: Dread Return, Sheoldred, the Whispering One, Victimize, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, Profane Command, and Infernal Offering to repeat the process.

You can also use this same dynamic with Solemn Simulacrum. But the execution of the combo will be slightly different. Because, as with the aforementioned combo, you have to be specific with what you put on the stack or you won't get the full benefits of this combo.

Because Solemn Simulacrum doesn't have its own way to sacrifice itself; why not use him to build an Army of the Damned (wink, wink). After sacrificing Burnished Hart, attach Solemn Simulacrum to search for another land. Now attach Skullclamp and you'll have a 5/3 Solemn Simulacrum ready to make five Zombies over and over again with Ghoulcaller Gisa. I usually combine Deathrender + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed after this.

When your next turn arrives with built up suspense, attaching Deathrender + Skullclamp to a Zombie and killing it with Victimize to bring in a free Sheoldred, the Whispering One, five more Zombies, and the potential to get the rest the your mana onto the field by implementing the Burnished Hart + Solemn Simulacrum combo combined with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed's Undying abilility is quite terrifying.

And having Reliquary Tower, Cabal Coffers, Magus of the Coffers, Crypt Ghast, and Nirkana Revenant on the field, you'll have a gigantic hand and far too much mana than you know what to do with, making you able to cast the deck literally without having to tap a single Swamp.

And once you get a sizable army of Zombies from the various cards that create the, which are: Army of the Damned, Ghoulcaller Gisa, Grave Titan, and Endless Army of the Dead, and Lashwrithe at a full 22 swamps casting Cover of Darkness and naming Zombies is a surefire way of wiping out all of your opponents.

And that's it! A crash course in how to use my first ever Magic: The Gathering deck after first starting almost two years ago, is complete. I hope you enjoy using this deck as much as I do and discovering new ways to use it!

Comments and possible suggestions for cards I could add are highly welcome! If you end up liking this deck then please feel free to upvote it!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Burnished Hart + Deathrender + Skullclamp Deathrender + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed Deathrender + Skullclamp Burnished Hart + Solemn Simulacrum
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.27
Tokens	Demon 5/5 B, Demon */* B, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Energy Reserve, Gold, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Zombie 2/2 B