Scarab God by Lulani

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The deck is a Dimir mill-zombie hybrid. Bruvac the Grandiloquent functions as a hidden commander: every incidental mill effect is doubled, and Traumatize, Cut Your Losses, and Terisian Mindbreaker become table-killing spells once he is in play. Reanimation spells support the plan by retrieving Bruvac, Terisian Mindbreaker, or big zombies, while The Scarab God adds a repeatable drain and a way to turn opponent graveyards into 4/4 Zombies. The plan is not a single fast combo; it uses selective tutors and draw-engines to assemble the mill lock, then finishes with two large mill spells. Board control and graveyard hate give the deck staying power if the mill win is disrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Champion of Wits
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death-Priest of Myrkul
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Drown in Sorrow
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 From Under the Floorboards
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Glistening Deluge
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 Isareth the Awakener
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lazav, Familiar Stranger
  • 1 Master of Death
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prized Amalgam
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Skyline Cascade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stitcher Geralf
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transmogrant Altar
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Vault 12: The Necropolis
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wash Out
  • 1 Wonder