Hogaak Gravestorm

Format: Commander

Commander: Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Golgari Graveyard Midrange strategy centered around Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis. The deck utilizes dense, low-cost self-mill creatures such as Stitcher's Supplier, Satyr Wayfinder, and Blanchwood Prowler to rapidly fill the graveyard and provide bodies for convoke. By turn 3, Hogaak enters the battlefield for zero mana. Once assembled, Hogaak's 8 power serves as the primary engine catalyst, fueling massive burst draw through Greater Good, Life's Legacy, and Disciple of Bolas, or enabling decisive creature tutors with Natural Order and Eldritch Evolution. The deck converts this overwhelming resource advantage into a game-winning board via high-impact reanimation targets like Craterhoof Behemoth, Colossal Grave-Reaver, and Archon of Cruelty, or mass reanimation spells like Living Death. While exceptionally resilient against creature removal due to Hogaak's built-in castability from the graveyard, the deck remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard hate and stack-based interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ainok Wayfarer
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blanchwood Prowler
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Circle of the Land Druid
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Glowspore Shaman
  • 1 Gnawing Vermin
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infested Thrinax
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Korozda Guildmage
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Life's Legacy
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return of the Mole Man
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rubblebelt Maverick
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 2 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 Town Greeter
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth