Zombie Bomb (Zombie Tribal EDH)

Commander / EDH Dredge Mill Mono-Black Multiplayer Reanimator Zombie

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1 Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb P
• 1x Boggart Bog  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Ebon Stronghold
• 1x Echoing Deeps
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Spymaster's Vault
• 23x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

2 Ramp (15)

• 1x Jeweled Lotus P
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond P
• 1x Mana Crypt P
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Shambling Ghast
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Diamond Lion
• 1x Blood Vassal
• 1x Overeager Apprentice
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Warren Soultrader

3 Card Draw / Mill (29)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Festerleech
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mire Triton
• 1x Returned Reveler
• 1x Ripples of Undeath
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Undead Butler
• 1x Wailing Ghoul
• 1x Archghoul of Thraben
• 1x Cemetery Tampering
• 1x Crow of Dark Tidings
• 1x Fell Stinger
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Necromancer's Assistant
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Unshakable Tail
• 1x Forsaken Drifters
• 1x Grave Defiler
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Returned Centaur
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Necrologia

5 More Zombies (11)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Withered Wretch
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Headless Rider
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly

6 Tutors (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Grim Servant
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

7 Utility (2)

• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Street Wraith

Commander (1)

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Other (58)

• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 2x Sacrifice
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Graf Reaver
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Sinister Starfish
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bone Dancer
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Gutless Ghoul
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rise of the Dread Marn
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Zombie Master
• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Draugr Necromancer
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Risen Executioner
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 2x Living Death
• 1x Cemetery Desecrator
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Army of the Damned

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I wanted to build a zombie tribal deck back when I started playing EDH and this is what it morphed into. Balthor is as zombie as it gets: he repeatedly brings your zombies back from the graveyard. The zombies never truly die, they just keep coming.

This deck revolved around casting and recurring Gary as many times as possible. The deck wins by casting Gary about 95% of the time.

Update 2023: This deck originally had a slow attrition/inevitability theme, usually winning by turn 9 or so, but I've updated it to be much faster with tutors like Songs of the Damned and Lion's Eye Diamond (super gross in this deck). It can now win regularly in turns 4-7. The deck relies on creatures that come into play and mill cards, but can now mill faster with Doom Whisperer and Necrologia. The deck also features the Mesmeric Orb + Basalt Monolith combo, although I'm still not completely convinced it's a great combo. Mesmeric Orb is great in the deck, but Basalt Monolith isn't great on it's own because popping off Balthor requires 5 black mana and 2 generic mana. I've also included more tutors, but these are awkward too because the deck wants as many creatures as possible. I've removed most of the non-creature based removal, such as Oblivion Stone and Grave Pact, since these cards always felt unnecessary. Overall, this deck is very hard to stop or interact with and feels like and 8/10 when you play with it.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 months
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Clue, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Cool (budget) EDH, Winning Decks (Commander)