Amass Zombies by Aldavon

Format: Commander

Creator: Aldavon

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Dimir Zombie tribal strategy led by The Scarab God. It focuses on curving out with resilient low-mana Zombie creatures and utility engines during the opening turns, then establishing its commander to generate incremental scry selection and life drain. As the game develops, token generators such as Grave Titan, Diregraf Colossus, and Josu Vess, Lich Knight combine with tribal anthems like Death Baron, Undead Warchief, and Diregraf Captain to present an overwhelming, evasive combat threat. The Scarab God acts as both an inevitable drain clock and an instant-speed reanimation outlet that leverages graveyards across the entire table. While the deck boasts strong natural recursion and resilience against targeted creature removal, its low density of fast ramp and reliance on tapped lands make its development deliberate. It closes games through consistent mid-game attrition, wide combat steps, and non-combat life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bladestitched Skaab
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cleaver Skaab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Curse of Disturbance
  • 1 Dark Salvation
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Enter the God-Eternals
  • 1 Eternal Skylord
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lich Lord of Unx
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Liliana's Reaver
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
  • 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Noosegraf Mob
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise from the Grave
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher Geralf
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Flesh
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vizier of the Scorpion
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse