Emet-Selch by DJ Otakuma

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Dimir graveyard reanimator strategy helmed by Emet-Selch, Unsundered. The game plan revolves around rapidly filtering cards into the graveyard using cheap looting creatures, wheels, and direct graveyard tutors such as Entomb and Buried Alive. Once the graveyard reaches fourteen cards, Emet-Selch transforms into Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, granting a one-sided Yawgmoth's Will effect that lets you cast spells directly from the graveyard. The deck leverages this massive resource burst to resolve game-ending spells like Rise of the Dark Realms and Breach the Multiverse, or to assemble board-clearing synergies with Archfiend of Ifnir and heavy life drain via Syr Konrad, the Grim. A reanimated army quickly finishes the table on Turn 7 through combat damage, enabled by Wonder granting flying to all attacking creatures. With strong redundancy across looting engines and reanimation spells, the deck operates smoothly even if the commander is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All-Seeing Arbiter
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Argentum Masticore
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bog Witch
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Criminal Past
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Lord of the Forsaken
  • 1 Magus of the Bazaar
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Mystic Redaction
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Neerdiv, Devious Diver
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Oblivion Crown
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Patrician Geist
  • 1 Pip-Boy 3000
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sage of the Beyond
  • 1 Scrounging Skyray
  • 1 Secrets of the Dead
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Indulgence
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Courier
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zombie Infestation