Zombaes by bpgaming

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

The Scarab God heads a Dimir Zombie-tribal deck that blends a wide beatdown force with mill and life-drain inevitability. The commander is both a resilient finisher and a value engine: its upkeep trigger punishes opponents based on Zombie count while scrying, and its activated ability reanimates any creature from any graveyard as a 4/4 Zombie. The deck also leans on token multiplication via Necroduality, Cleaver Skaab, and Wilhelt, using mill outlets like Court of Cunning and Maddening Cacophony to fill graveyards. The main plan is to accrue Zombie tokens, drain life through triggers like Diregraf Captain and Plague Belcher, and eventually close with The Scarab God or a massive mill effect. A secondary combo exists between Exquisite Blood and Marauding Blight-Priest, turning any life loss into a loop. Interaction is robust with free and instant-speed removal, counterspells, and board wipes, while recursion from Gisa and Geralf, Liliana, and Rise of the Dark Realms provides resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bladestitched Skaab
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cleaver Skaab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Lich Lord of Unx
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Crypt
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 3 Snow-Covered Island
  • 3 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Zombie Master