yargh by user9896439

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 19

Deck overview

This is a Dimir graveyard engine built around Emet-Selch, Unsundered. The deck loots, mills, and casts interaction while filling its graveyard toward the fourteen-card requirement. Once Emet-Selch, Unsundered transforms into Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, graveyard cards become an extended hand, allowing large spells such as Breach the Multiverse, Singularity Rupture, and the extra-turn effects to be reused. Rhystic Study, Secrets of the Dead, Baleful Strix, and Teval's Judgment provide supporting value, while counters and creature removal protect the setup. Its main weakness is timing: transformation requires a full graveyard and an upkeep check, so the engine is exposed before it becomes active. The deck can create a powerful board and generate long-game advantage, but it lacks a deterministic table kill, compact infinite combo, or sustained denial lock. It is best played as a patient graveyard-control deck that wins through accumulated advantage and large reanimation turns rather than an early combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Secluded Glen
  • 1 Secrets of the Dead
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall