zombies!! by fallensaviour

Format: Commander

Commander: Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Zombie tribal and aristocrats strategy led by Hashaton, Scarab's Fist. It combines discard outlets with graveyard recursion, token generation, and drain triggers to build overwhelming board states. In the early game, the deck establishes mana rocks and low-cost Zombies before deploying Hashaton alongside discard engines like Cryptbreaker, Varina, Lich Queen, and Tortured Existence. Discarded creature cards are cloned into 4/4 Zombie tokens, rapidly expanding the battlefield while stocking the graveyard for mass reanimation. The mid-to-late game focuses on converting Zombie swarms into decisive table-wide pressure using lords like Death Baron and Geralf, Visionary Stitcher, or executing massive life swings via Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Living Death. Opponents are drained through aristocrat pieces such as Wayward Servant, Corpse Knight, and Diregraf Captain. The deck exhibits strong recovery against creature sweepers through redundant recursion, though it remains cautious of targeted graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archghoul of Thraben
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dying to Serve
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lich Lord of Unx
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 On Wings of Gold
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prophet of the Scarab
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Ratadrabik of Urborg
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Rot Hulk
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Varina, Lich Queen
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wayward Servant
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord