Zombie hug

Format: Commander

Commander: Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist commands an Esper reanimator and attrition strategy centered on converting discard triggers into high-impact 4/4 Zombie token copies. By leveraging cheap looting effects and utility discarders like Cryptbreaker, Likeness Looter, and Frantic Search, the deck cheats devastating threats—most notably Archon of Cruelty, Rot Hulk, and The Scarab God—onto the battlefield as early as Turn 4 for only three mana. In tandem with creature reanimation, the deck runs a punishing group-draw and wheel package featuring Dark Deal, Windfall, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, weaponizing forced draws through cards like Waste Not and Liliana's Caress. Token doublers such as Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation amplify board generation, while Zombie Master and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth provide unblockable combat finishes. Backed by free protective spells like Fierce Guardianship and Flawless Maneuver, the deck applies unrelenting resource suppression and closes games rapidly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Cryptcaller Chariot
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismantling Wave
  • 1 Dream Halls
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faith of the Devoted
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Magister of Worth
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Mirrorform
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Rot Hulk
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Struggle for Project Purity
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Varina, Lich Queen
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayward Servant
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zombie Master