Grimgrin and Bear it

Format: Commander

Commander: Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born leads a Dimir Zombie Aristocrats deck designed to dominate creature combat, generate steady card advantage, and assemble lethal sacrifice loops. The deck pairs the commander's built-in sacrifice outlet with resilient recursive creatures, most notably Gravecrawler and Reassembling Skeleton. Early turns establish mana acceleration using low-cost mana rocks and setup through draw engines like Skullclamp and Undead Augur. During the midgame, asymmetric attrition pieces such as Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Noxious Ghoul systematically clear opposing boards whenever your Zombies die. The endgame executes an infinite loop by resolving Rooftop Storm alongside Gravecrawler and a drain payoff like Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, or Diregraf Captain. Secondary routes utilizing Ashnod's Altar and Nim Deathmantle provide reliable redundancy, allowing the deck to transition smoothly from board control to sudden table-wide victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Ravenous Rotbelly
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat