Undead Horde by XanderPrime33

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Dimir Zombie tribal and aristocrats strategy commanded by The Scarab God. The primary game plan builds an early board of resilient Zombie creatures and token generators, then deploys the commander to establish an escalating upkeep drain engine that scries through the library and reanimates high-value targets at instant speed. Complementary aristocrat engines like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, Warren Soultrader, and Blood Artist punish opponents for removing creatures while converting death triggers into card advantage and burst mana. High-impact finishers such as Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Army of the Damned, and Rooftop Storm provide explosive reach to close out games across mid-to-late turns. The deck features strong built-in resilience against destruction wipes thanks to the commander's unique return-to-hand trigger and extensive graveyard recursion, though it remains vulnerable to targeted exile and heavy graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherspouts
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Bad Moon
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bog Witch
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Diregraf Ghoul
  • 1 Drag to the Underworld
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Eternal Skylord
  • 1 Eternal of Harsh Truths
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Ghouls' Night Out
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gravedigger
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Raving Dead
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skull Skaab
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless One
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Tomebound Lich
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver