Zombie #1 by user6948564

Format: Commander

Commander: Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is commanded by Zul Ashur, Lich Lord, focusing on a resilient Zombie tribal and aristocrats strategy. The primary game plan centers on utilizing the graveyard as an extended hand, pairing Zul Ashur's cast-from-graveyard ability with self-recurring creatures like Gravecrawler and sacrifice outlets like Carrion Feeder and Ashnod's Altar. Card draw engines such as Undead Augur and Midnight Reaper convert dying Zombies into substantial card advantage, while lords like Death Baron and Undead Warchief turn token swarms into serious combat threats. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through repeated life-drain bursts via Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Vengeful Dead, supplemented by broad combat damage. While highly capable of rebuilding from creature sweepers through reanimation spells, the deck remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile and lacks artifact removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Corpse Connoisseur
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Ghoulraiser
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necromancer's Stockpile
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 23 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Unbreathing Horde
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Victim of Night
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withered Wretch
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zombie Infestation
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord