Blue/Black by user5704103

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir deck helmed by The Scarab God is a control-reanimator strategy that blends zombie tribal synergies with a robust interaction suite. The primary game plan involves filling the graveyard through self-mill and discard, then reanimating high-impact creatures like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur and Consecrated Sphinx to generate overwhelming card advantage. The commander itself serves as a repeatable reanimation engine, exiling creatures from graveyards to create 4/4 zombie tokens while draining opponents and scrying based on zombie count. Secondary win conditions include draining via Gray Merchant of Asphodel and combat damage from a growing zombie army. The deck is heavily interactive, packing 11 counterspells, multiple board wipes, and instant-speed removal to control the game until its value engines take over.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Said // Done
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall