Mambo number 5 by user8030630

Format: Commander

Commander: Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Dimir Zombie deck is led by Grimgrin, Corpse-Born and built around aristocrats synergies, graveyard recursion, and lethal combo loops. The primary game plan focuses on filling the graveyard with Zombie fodder and using Gravecrawler in conjunction with sacrifice outlets and mana engines like Pitiless Plunderer or Rooftop Storm. Once these pieces are assembled, the deck loops sacrifices to trigger death payoffs such as Diregraf Captain, Plague Belcher, or Syr Konrad, the Grim, draining all opponents out simultaneously. Asymmetric control elements like Grave Pact and Noxious Ghoul keep opposing creature boards completely clear, while mass reanimation cards like Patriarch's Bidding and Zombie Apocalypse provide immense late-game resilience. With strong card draw engines like Undead Augur and Skullclamp, the deck quickly digs through its library to find its core combo pieces and close the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Rot Hulk
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord