Army of Darkness (Copy) by xXdueceXx

Format: Commander

Creator: xXdueceXx

Commander: Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Graveyard Reanimator strategy piloted by Karador, Ghost Chieftain. It accelerates through dense 1- and 2-drop ramp and quickly fills the graveyard using premier self-mill tools like Stitcher's Supplier, Grisly Salvage, and dredge engines like Golgari Grave-Troll. Karador functions as an accessible recursion engine from the command zone, allowing the pilot to reuse silver-bullet utility creatures such as Haywire Mite, Skyclave Apparition, and Plaguecrafter. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition around Turn 5 or 6, either by resolving a blowout Living Death or tutoring Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Lord of Extinction with Buried Alive. Sacrificing a massive graveyard-scaled creature to Jarad bypasses blockers and drains all three opponents simultaneously. The deck boasts extraordinary resilience against board wipes, though it must carefully navigate targeted graveyard exile and anti-activated-ability hate pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Circle of the Land Druid
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
  • 1 Hollow Marauder
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinterfright
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow