2. Beetle by user1931161

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir reanimator deck, helmed by The Scarab God, aims to control the board with cheap counterspells and symmetric board wipes while filling graveyards through mill or discard. The commander then exiles the best creatures from any graveyard to make 4/4 token Zombies, which both generate value (Rhystic Study, Consecrated Sphinx) and drain opponents via upkeep triggers. The deck lacks a compact infinite combo; instead it wins through incremental advantage, battlefield superiority, and closing with draining beats from large tokens or reanimated threats like Jin-Gitaxias or Sphinx of the Second Sun. Resilience is high thanks to repeated recursion spells and graveyard interaction available from The Scarab God even after board wipes.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Energy Tap
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Life's Finale
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unsubstantiate
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Worn Powerstone