graveyard by user9336115

Format: Commander

Commander: Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Golgari graveyard-value deck built around Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis as a recurring, zero-mana 8/8 trample threat. The core strategy pairs cheap creatures (Birds of Paradise, Stitcher's Supplier, Elves of Deep Shadow) with self-mill effects (Satyr Wayfinder, Ripples of Undeath, Mesmeric Orb) to fill the graveyard and fuel Hogaak's delve cost. Once Hogaak is online, the deck leverages sacrifice outlets such as Altar of Dementia, Greater Good, and Ghoulcaller Gisa to convert it into card draw, token generation, or mana. A secondary win path involves cheating out massive creatures like Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant and Decimator of the Provinces via Birthing Pod chains or Eldritch Evolution, then overwhelming opponents with trample and token swarms. The deck operates as a midrange engine that wins through incremental combat damage rather than a fast combo line.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass
• 1 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Birthing Ritual
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bonecache Overseer
• 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
• 1 Carrion
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Decimator of the Provinces
• 1 Desperate Plea
• 1 Destiny Spinner
• 1 Disciple of Bolas
• 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
• 1 Dryad's Revival
• 1 Eldritch Evolution
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Endurance
• 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Feed the Pack
• 1 Food Chain
• 4 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
• 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1 Golgari Charm
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
• 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
• 1 Khalni Garden
• 1 Korozda Guildmage
• 1 Life's Legacy
• 1 Liliana the Repentant
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Malevolent Rumble
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mockery of Nature
• 1 Molt Tender
• 1 Momentous Fall
• 1 Monstrous Vortex
• 1 Morbid Curiosity
• 1 Mothman Egg
• 1 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Ooze Garden
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Patchwork Beastie
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Railway Brawler
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Mole Man
• 1 Rick Jones, Destined Sidekick
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Sacrifice
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Scavenger's Talent
• 1 Seedship Broodtender
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Six
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Soldevi Adnate
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Tend the Pests
• 1 Terastodon
• 1 The Banyan Tree
• 1 The Meep
• 1 The Skullspore Nexus
• 1 Tip the Scales
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodland Cemetery