Delirious Scarab Nonesense

Modern* Casual Competitive Discard Tokens Tribal Zombie

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Creature (24)

• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 2x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 2x Diregraf Colossus
• 4x Dread Wanderer
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Havengul Runebinder
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 3x Lord of the Accursed
• 2x Metallic Mimic
• 3x Relentless Dead
• 1x Spellweaver Eternal
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Undead Alchemist

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 2x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 2x Training Grounds

Land (22)

• 6x Island
• 14x Swamp
• 2x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (5)

• 1x Essence Scatter
• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Grasp of Darkness

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Dark Salvation

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Sideboard

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Dispossess
• 1x Lost Legacy
• 1x Never / Return
• 2x Transgress the Mind

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Creature (6)

• 2x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 3x Scrapheap Scrounger

Instant (1)

• 1x Essence Scatter

Artifact (2)

• 2x Aethersphere Harvester

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Havengul Lich

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Creeping Dread

Instant (2)

• 2x Stifle

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Compelling Argument

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What's this deck and why?

Delirious Scarab Nonesense is a fast-paced that lets you take control of the game early on by overwhelming your opponent with hordes of zombies that buff each other, are nasty to get rid of and hurt very much. The low-cmc counter spells protect them even further and restrict your opponent's movements from turn one onwards. also has a bunch of hard-hitting mofos that'll come into play mid- to endgame and utilize your horde to its fullest.

I got inspired by Eirc Froehlich's Pro Tour Amonkhet winning and a lucky draft the other day, giving me The Scarab God and a few other interesting pieces to kick this deck off with.

Since I'm new to MTG and still getting the hang of it, I'd be glad for every help and suggestion. I'm currently searching for cards that fit into this deck in order to find the best working combinations, since I feel like the deck has still a bunch of weaknesses.

Here is how it works:

Headstart

Cryptbreaker and Dread Wanderer can be used to give you a headstart with their effectiveness and low cmc; Dark Salvation, Fatal Push and Grasp of Darkness have low mana cost too and will help your weak primers take control of the battlefield.

Discard Fest

Here's where Undead Alchemist makes its fair deal of damage. It forgoes damage to your opponent's life and instead fills up their graveyards while strenghtening your zombie horde which is perfect for both of this deck's win-conditions! Additionally, there are cards of low to high cmc like Cryptbreaker and Torment of Scarabs that also help in filling both your and your opponent's graveyards until they're big enough to act as a win-condition for our bae Liliana. Apart from that, a lot of zombies in this deck can be cast from your graveyard or cast other discarded zombies, so you're good to go anyway.

Enhancement and Recovery

Cards like Lord of the Accursed and Metallic Mimic buff your ever-growing zombie horde early on, while Liliana's Mastery and Havengul Runebinder relieves them in mid-game and brings back creatures from your graveyard just like Gisa and Geralf.

Mid to late token horde

From here on, Endless Ranks of the Dead and Josu Vess, Lich Knight can take over and create the necessary armies of undead for you that function as your first win-condition.

Win-Condition Zombie Horde

The Scarab God is just as scary as it sounds like. As soon as it's on the battlefield, your opponent will lose all their life in no time if you've been able to seize a big horde of zombie tokens and cards before. If not, The Scarab God will help you create it. If it gets destroyed, it goes back to your hand practically immediately.There's also Westvale Abbey   in case need a buck-up plan.

Win-Condition Loaded Graveyards

There are lots of zombies taking advantage of your creature-filled graveyard early on like Diregraf Colossus. But Liliana Vess is overkill since she will put every creature in every graveyard on the battlefield under your control. It takes a bit of time until she can activate her ability, so that's something better suited for slow enemy decks. Hence shes part of the side deck along with Phenax, God of Deception being her failsafe support.

Training Grounds

Now these are expensive pieces of cardboard right here. In this case they're well worth it though, since they make this deck so much more effective and faster to play.

I feel like this deck still needs cards to recover enchantments though in case they end up in the graveyard before you can use them. Im also unsure as to which spell and creature cards will work better and give you more benefits, which is why Ive tried to balance them out. I think this deck will get better with fewer different kinds of monsters and an optimized spellcard ratio though see Eric Froehlichs deck above.

I hope you enjoy it! :)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 2 Mythic Rares 24 - 10 Rares 7 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.39
Tokens	Copy Clone, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Knight 2/2 B
Folders	Other tribal decks, decklists