Karador dredger of secrets by Theverb

Format: Commander

Commander: Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Karador, Ghost Chieftain Abzan graveyard-reanimator deck built around heavy self-mill, dredge, and recursive value loops. The plan is to fill the graveyard cheaply in the first turns, use that density to reduce Karador's cost and enable its once-per-turn cast-from-graveyard ability, then assemble repeatable sacrifice loops that drain the whole table or mill everyone out. The primary kill is the Karmic Guide + Reveillark loop with a sacrifice outlet and a drain payoff; a second loop pairs Saffi Eriksdotter with Sun Titan. The fallback win is a critical-mass reanimation turn with Living Death, Eerie Ultimatum, or Rise of the Dark Realms alongside Syr Konrad, the Grim. Karador is an accelerant and a recursion insurance policy more than a required combo piece; the real engine is the graveyard itself.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of Bone
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Genesis
  • 1 Glowspore Shaman
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Ground Seal
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Necrobloom
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat