Deadhead by TheBishop

Format: Commander

Commander: Tormod, the Desecrator and Ghost of Ramirez DePietro

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Dimir Zombie deck pairs Tormod, the Desecrator and Ghost of Ramirez DePietro to generate sustained board presence and card advantage from graveyard interaction. The early game focuses on filling the graveyard using efficient mill and targeted tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive. In the mid-game, commanders and utility creatures such as Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver and Cryptbreaker convert recurring creatures into card draw and Zombie tokens. The deck aims for a decisive Turn 6 swing using mass reanimation spells like Living Death or Rot Hulk to return Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Noxious Ghoul. This simultaneously wipes opposing creatures and drains life totals, setting up an unblockable lethal combat finish on Turn 7 with Zombie Master and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth or Wonder. Supported by free interaction and resilient recursion engines, the deck presents high durability and steady pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Duneyard
• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bond of Insight
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Champion of the Perished
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cryptbreaker
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Diregraf Captain
• 1 Diregraf Colossus
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Gempalm Polluter
• 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
• 1 Gisa and Geralf
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Headless Rider
• 4 Island
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lazotep Quarry
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Undead
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Master of Death
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Noxious Ghoul
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Perpetual Timepiece
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prized Amalgam
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relentless Dead
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Rot Hulk
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stillness in Motion
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Palace
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1 Tortured Existence
• 1 Twilight Diviner
• 1 Undead Augur
• 1 Undead Butler
• 1 Undead Warchief
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Unholy Grotto
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vile Entomber
• 1 Wand of Orcus
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Zombie Master
• 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord