Karador the Re-animator by Rudolphosv

Format: Commander

Commander: Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Karador is the repeatable reanimation engine of a heavyweight Abzan self-mill deck. The primary plan is to fill the graveyard with creatures, reduce Karador's cost, and then loop Karmic Guide + Reveillark with Viscera Seer for infinite death/ETB triggers, draining opponents with Gray Merchant or Dreadhound. Secondary paths include midrange beatdown from Grave Titan, Diamond Weapon, Grist the Plague Swarm, and Neo Exdeath, backed by a deep recursion suite. The Fang/Vanille meld pair is an optional hidden-commander value package. The deck is heavily graveyard-dependent, with no counterspells but many permanent answers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
  • 1 Diamond Weapon
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Druid of the Cowl
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Rejuvenator
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elder
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Heart Warden
  • 1 Isareth the Awakener
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotleth Giant
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Old Rutstein
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scarblade Scout
  • 1 Shinra Reinforcements
  • 1 Six
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Necrobloom
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Town Greeter
  • 1 Valgavoth's Faithful
  • 1 Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Willow Geist
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder