Zombies by user5556827

Format: Commander

Commander: Varina, Lich Queen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Zombie Tribal Reanimator strategy commanded by Varina, Lich Queen. The game plan focuses on deploying efficient low-curve Zombies in the opening turns, casting Varina on Turn 4, and attacking on Turn 5 to trigger extensive card filtering and graveyard setup. By pitching heavy threats and recursion targets into the graveyard, the deck rapidly digs for asymmetric mass reanimation spells such as Living Death, Patriarch's Bidding, and Zombie Apocalypse. On Turn 6, the deck establishes a decisive board presence, recurring a critical mass of Zombie lords, token multipliers, and aristocrat drain engines like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Corpse Knight, and Wayward Servant. Opponents are given a single response cycle before a lethal Turn 7 combat assault and widespread life-drain triggers close out the game. Supported by efficient spot removal, flexible countermagic, and superior graveyard resilience, the deck consistently rebuilds through sweepers and overpowers opposing defenses.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Empty the Laboratory
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Rot Hulk
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Varina, Lich Queen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayward Servant
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord