Zodiark, Umbral God by Sereus

Format: Commander

Commander: Zodiark, Umbral God

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized mono-black aristocrats and reanimator combo deck commanded by Zodiark, Umbral God. The primary strategy focuses on aggressively tutoring and assembling compact, game-ending infinite loops while controlling the board through asymmetric sacrifice and discard attrition. The deck features multiple redundant win conditions, headlined by the two-card combo of Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (or Enduring Tenacity), which initiates an unstoppable life-drain cascade across all three opponents. Alternatively, the deck can leverage Buried Alive to set up Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Putrid Goblin sacrifice loops. Supporting these win lines is a premier black suite of explosive card advantage—including Necropotence, The One Ring, and Bolas's Citadel—alongside potent disruption in Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, and Grave Pact. While vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard exile and targeted removal, its deep recursion package and high tutor density ensure rapid, resilient recovery and decisive early finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat