zombies by rambert

Format: Commander

Commander: Varina, Lich Queen

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Zombie tribal and aristocrats strategy commanded by Varina, Lich Queen. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost Zombies in the early turns, casting Varina on Turn 4, and attacking immediately to trigger her combat ability. This generates substantial card selection by drawing and discarding cards while simultaneously gaining life and fueling the graveyard. The deck leverages this stocked graveyard to create additional Zombie tokens, pump the board with lords like Undead Warchief and Lord of the Accursed, and grant evasion with Eternal Skylord or Zombie Master. Opponents' life totals are pressured concurrently through wide combat swings and potent drain triggers from Wayward Servant, Corpse Knight, Blood Artist, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. While vulnerable to mass exile sweepers and lacking stack countermagic, the deck possesses strong reanimation resilience and alternative threats like The Scarab God and Gisa, the Hellraiser.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commence the Endgame
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Eternal Skylord
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 On Wings of Gold
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Spider-Man
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Varina, Lich Queen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wayward Servant
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat