Scarab's Domain

Commander / EDH Control Zombie

DancingKirby

Control (18)

• 1x Countervailing Winds
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Eyeblight's Ending
• 1x Hideous End
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Kefnet's Last Word
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Unwind

Land (38)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 10x Island
• 1x Mage-Ring Network
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 20x Swamp
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Mana (9)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Training Grounds

Speed/Draw (19)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Soul Ransom
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x The Mirari Conjecture
• 1x Weight of Memory
• 1x Whispering Madness

Zombie (14)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Control (1)

• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Zombie Lord (4)

• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Undead Warchief

Commander (1)

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Control (3)

• 1x Battle at the Bridge
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Necrotic Plague

Mana (1)

• 1x Manalith

Other (23)

• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Curator's Ward
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Eternal of Harsh Truths
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Greater Harvester
• 1x Ice Over
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Lethal Sting
• 1x Lich's Mastery
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1x Pilfered Plans
• 1x Precognition Field
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Rush of Vitality
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Time of Ice
• 1x Undercity Plague

Speed/Draw (2)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Skeleton Key

Zombie (7)

• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Shamble Back
• 1x Vile Rebirth

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Heavy field control with a focus to necro from graves and overwhelm enemies with card advantage. This deck doesn't make friends.

I focus on Control, Zombies, Mana Ramp, then Speed/Draw. This deck turns an opponents deck against themselves while swarming and forcing them to act.

Plenty kill spells to give your Scarab more toys to play with. I mix Counter and target destroy with sacrifice and -x/-x to get around pesky indestructible and hexproof. I don't have much for swarm clear, but I haven't had trouble keeping up because of my Zombie swarm backbone.

The Zombies are my backbone. I aim to turn my opponents deck against them by using the necro ability from Scarab. The monster affects win games, and what better way to crush someone than with their own cards? I swarm with tokens and pump with Zombie Lords to make this deck get really out of hand fast if it isn't stopped.

This deck thrives off mana. The more mana, the more you will control and swarm. With control you trade 1 card for 1+ enemy cards, with zombies you aim to gain field advantage, and with Speed/Draw you gain overall card advantage.

All the mana in your deck wont help you with no cards to play. We are trading cards and able to win from different conditions if only we have the right cards to do so. I mix Scrying, Discard, and raw Drawing for the ability to quickly move through my deck. This is an unconventional deck in that it plays from the graveyards, so cards like Dark Deal and Whispering Madness greatly help us while you get the satisfaction of watching your enemies soul get crushed. Whispering Madness's Cipher ability is a serious powerhouse with Skeleton Key and the various kill cards we bring to the table. We will be burning cards quickly and I don't even mind giving my opponent cards in the rare cases they had less cards than me.

Please let me know what you think, and enjoy playing my deck.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB