Emet-Selch Commander by user1333987

Format: Commander

Commander: Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This Dimir deck executes a dedicated Reanimator and Graveyard Control strategy led by Emet-Selch, Unsundered. The game plan focuses on filling the graveyard quickly using efficient tutors like Entomb, Buried Alive, and Intuition, alongside consistent looting from the commander, Likeness Looter, and Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator. Once massive threats such as Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, or Hullbreaker Horror enter the graveyard, the deck cheats them onto the battlefield on Turn 3 or 4 using cheap reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Necromancy. These creatures generate immediate value, stripping opposing hands and creatures while drawing fresh resources. In the mid-to-late game, the deck resolves mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Breach the Multiverse, granting flying through Wonder and burning opponents with Syr Konrad, the Grim. A protective suite of free and efficient counterspells guards key spells while continuous edicts dismantle opposing boards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Intuition
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Neerdiv, Devious Diver
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God