The Scarab Daddy by user7647988

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Zombie Tribal Midrange strategy centered on The Scarab God. The game plan focuses on curving out resilient Zombie creatures and token generators during the early turns, establishing a wide board presence, and deploying the commander on Turn 5. Once assembled, The Scarab God converts every Zombie into upkeep life drain and card filtering, quickly shrinking opposing life totals while sculpting subsequent draws. The deck utilizes instant-speed reanimation to steal high-value creature threats from any graveyard as 4/4 black Zombies. Win conditions include cumulative upkeep drain, unblockable or evasive Zombie combat via lords like Lord of the Accursed and Eternal Skylord, and burst damage from Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Army of the Damned. Built-in commander resilience and mass reanimation spells provide solid mid-game staying power against removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Cruel Revival
  • 1 Cultural Exchange
  • 1 Curse of Disturbance
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Enter the God-Eternals
  • 1 Eternal Skylord
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geralf's Mindcrusher
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lazotep Reaver
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Devotee
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Loyal Subordinate
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Pilfered Plans
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Salt Marsh
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Flesh
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Three Tree Mascot
  • 1 Unbreathing Horde
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vela the Night-Clad
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vizier of the Scorpion
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord