Oh Zodiark, We're Really In It Now (but with turns) by eunnieverse

Format: Commander

Commander: Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Dimir combo-control deck leverages Emet-Selch, Unsundered as an early-game card filtering and self-mill engine that later transforms into Hades, Sorcerer of Eld for powerful graveyard casting. The deck's primary victory route is a rapid Doomsday line, assembling a compact five-card pile to win in the same turn via Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. Supported by an extensive black and blue tutor suite—including Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Grim Tutor, and Solve the Equation—the deck reliably converges on its combo pieces by Turn 4. Mana acceleration from Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual, and Sol Ring enables rapid deployment. If Doomsday is disrupted, the deck pivots smoothly to Peer into the Abyss or self-mill attrition lines with Bloodchief Ascension and Duskmantle Guildmage. A robust suite of efficient countermagic, targeted removal, and proactive stax pieces like Ashiok, Dream Render protects the win attempt while disrupting opposing game plans.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Calculations
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall