Karador, Ghost Chieftain by user7856488

Format: Commander

Commander: Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan graveyard combo list commanded by Karador, Ghost Chieftain. It accelerates mana on Turns 1 and 2 with efficient mana dorks and rocks, then uses self-mill enablers such as Stitcher's Supplier, Grisly Salvage, and Stinkweed Imp to fill the graveyard with utility creatures. By Turn 4, Karador enters at a substantial cost reduction to serve as a repeatable graveyard cast engine, or Buried Alive bins the core combo pieces directly. On Turn 5, the deck initiates a deterministic loop pairing Reveillark and Karmic Guide with a sacrifice outlet like Viscera Seer and a drain payoff like Zulaport Cutthroat or Cruel Celebrant, draining all three opponents for lethal damage in a single turn. The list also features strong board control with recurring creature removal and resilient recovery against wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cathar Commando
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chthonian Nightmare
• 1 Circle of the Land Druid
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dauntless Escort
• 1 Desecrated Tomb
• 1 Doomed Necromancer
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Enduring Innocence
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 9 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Golgari Thug
• 1 Grisly Salvage
• 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1 Honest Rutstein
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Malevolent Rumble
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Millikin
• 1 Mirror Entity
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 6 Plains
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Remorseful Cleric
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Skyclave Apparition
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stinkweed Imp
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Tortured Existence
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Undead Butler
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1 Winding Way
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat