Emet-Selch Self Mill by Sha_On

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dimir graveyard combo and reanimation deck commanded by Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld. The primary strategy focuses on rapid self-mill and looting to achieve a critical mass of 14 cards in the graveyard by Turn 4. On Turn 5 upkeep, the commander transforms into Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, providing a permanent one-sided Yawgmoth's Will effect during your turn. From this state, the deck replays fast mana spells like Dark Ritual and Lotus Petal to assemble game-ending combos such as Painter's Servant plus Grindstone or a lethal Thassa's Oracle self-mill finish. In addition to combo lines, the deck leverages potent reanimation targets like Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant and asymmetric stax pieces like Dauthi Voidwalker and Opposition Agent to suppress opposing game plans while defending its own win windows with efficient countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Oculus
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duelist of the Mind
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Mental Note
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Moonshadow
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will