The Scarab God by user9525965

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dimir Reanimator Control strategy led by The Scarab God. It blends symmetrical mill, wheel effects, and tribal Zombie synergies to dominate the game through attrition and resource denial. Early turns focus on developing mana, filling graveyards with Mesmeric Orb, Entomb, or Buried Alive, and securing card advantage through staples like Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora. By Turn 4 or 5, the deck transitions into a dominant board state by deploying The Scarab God to steal high-impact creatures as 4/4 Zombies, resolving a devastating Living Death, or executing a hand-lock with Notion Thief and wheel spells like Windfall. Free countermagic such as Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship protects critical plays, while the commander's built-in death trigger provides exceptional resilience against removal. Victory is sealed around Turn 7 through scaling Zombie upkeep drain, Gray Merchant of Asphodel devotion bursts, and relentless combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Dreamborn Muse
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Windfall