Egypt Zombies by SpagNoodle

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a midrange Dimir Zombie-tribal deck helmed by The Scarab God. The plan is to bury the table under a critical mass of cheap recursive Zombies and Zombie tokens, pump that board with a dense lord package, and finish through either combat or drain triggers. The commander is a true value engine rather than a required component: its upkeep trigger drains life and scrys for each Zombie you control, and its activated ability turns the best creature in any graveyard into a 4/4 black Zombie copy at instant speed. The 99 runs the game plan on its own with cards like Gravecrawler, Diregraf Colossus, eight-plus lord effects, and a mass-reanimation suite (Zombie Apocalypse, Rise of the Dark Realms) that rebuilds after wipes. There are no infinite combos; wins come from overwhelming swarms, Gray Merchant of Asphodel devotion, and repeated drain from Vengeful Dead, Plague Belcher, and Diregraf Captain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Bladestitched Skaab
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Empty the Laboratory
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Graveyard Marshal
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Tomb Tyrant
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Unbreathing Horde
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord