Kang Dimir Scarab god by canadianblizzard

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir control strategy led by The Scarab God, combining symmetrical discard attrition with graveyard reanimation. Early turns focus on establishing mana acceleration via 2-drop mana rocks and applying light disruption through discard spells and selective removal. Once The Scarab God enters the battlefield, the deck leverages its activated ability to exile creature cards from any graveyard at instant speed, creating 4/4 black Zombie tokens. Synergies with Waste Not, Megrim, and Entropic Battlecruiser convert opposing discards into mana, card draw, and life loss. The deck closes games by scaling the commander's upkeep ability—draining opponents and scrying based on Zombie counts—while attacking with an evasive, resilient army. While the engine recovers smoothly from standard creature destruction thanks to the commander's death trigger, it remains vulnerable to mass exile effects and dedicated graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aethertide Whale
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashen Powder
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Commander Greven il-Vec
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Dark Deed
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Marauder
  • 1 Diabolic Edict
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Disturbed Burial
  • 1 Dream Cache
  • 1 Drossclaw
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Everglades
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Futurist Forge
  • 1 Gigastorm Titan
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gravedigger
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Peel
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relearn
  • 1 Roxxon Brutes
  • 1 Shredder, Unrelenting
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spellbook Seeker // Careful Study
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Symbol of Unsummoning
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Textbook Tabulator
  • 1 Thalakos Deceiver
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Wondrous Wasp
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unliving Legionnaire
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist