Beginner Graveyard, Resurrect, Skeletons and Zombies by Kayode

Format: Commander

Commander: Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This mono-black deck mills itself and reanimates Zombies to win through combat and life drain. It uses Mire Triton, Crow of Dark Tidings, Gorging Vulture, Buried Alive and Vile Entomber to put payoffs like Massacre Wurm, Maalfeld Twins and Triplicate Titan into the graveyard. Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist then returns one creature per turn as a Skeleton with no abilities, so the deck leans on enter-the-battlefield, death triggers and lords like Death Baron and Lord of the Accursed. Twilight Diviner and Ayara, First of Locthwain act as hidden engines that copy or drain off each reanimation. With no infinite combo, it wins by building a wide board and grinding opponents down over several attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cemetery Recruitment
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Crow of Dark Tidings
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Plot
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Desecration Demon
  • 1 Diregraf Ghoul
  • 1 Diregraf Scavenger
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Eye Collector
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fear of the Dark
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Forum Necroscribe
  • 1 Gorex, the Tombshell
  • 1 Gorging Vulture
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Strength
  • 1 Gutless Plunderer
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Maalfeld Twins
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Moonshadow
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Snatcher
  • 1 Stab
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 38 Swamp
  • 1 Tenacious Dead
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vile Mutilator
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wailing Ghoul
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Zombify