Pet Semetary by DarkMatter

Format: Commander

Commander: Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Abzan aristocrats reanimator strategy piloted by Karador, Ghost Chieftain. The primary game plan accelerates early mana through green dorks and land fetchers, seeds the graveyard with high-utility creatures, and converts sacrifice synergies into overwhelming card advantage and board control. The deck establishes an oppressive creature lock through Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and recurring sacrifice creatures like Plaguecrafter. It culminates in a decisive combo finish on Turn 5 utilizing Protean Hulk or Buried Alive to assemble infinite death-and-reanimation loops with Karmic Guide, Saffi Eriksdotter, or Reveillark, draining the table with blood artists such as Zulaport Cutthroat and Cruel Celebrant. Graveyard recursion provides exceptional resilience against sweepers, allowing the deck to rebuild rapidly and execute its win lines independently of its commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cactus Preserve
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Outlaw Medic
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Primal Druid
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reclusive Taxidermist
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serrated Scorpion
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vesperlark
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridian Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat