Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Multiplayer Reanimator Rock

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Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Putrefy

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Living End
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Unburial Rites

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Hunting Grounds
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Wild Pair

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Creature (28)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Banisher Priest
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
• 1x Wild Mongrel
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Land (37)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 3x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Reclamation Sage

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This is my Karador, Ghost Chieftain Rock/Combo deck. It's designed to remove all threats and recur your own to drag the game out until you can assemble a combo.

There are a bunch of combos in the deck, but they're all three or more cards. My playgroup isn't a big fan of two card combos, so we'll keep it casual:Sac outlets: Ashnod's Altar, Altar of Dementia, Blasting Station

-- Puppeteer Clique/Woodfall Primus + Cathars' Crusade/Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Sac Outlet

-- Puppeteer Clique/Woodfall Primus/Sepulchral Primordial + Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle

-- Sun Titan/Karmic Guide/Reveillark + Saffi Eriksdotter/Fiend Hunter/ Banisher Priest + Sac Outlet

I can't really afford anything like Tooth and Nail or Survival of the Fittest.

The deck is quite powerful and does what it's supposed to. It is a reanimator deck with an emphasis on stealing your opponents' creatures, which helps if someone uses Bojuka Bog on your graveyard.

Hermit Druid is one of the most important cards in the deck, it fills the graveyard, but there's no stupid combo with him. There are also other ways to fill the graveyard, including mill and discard outlets. I'm a big fan of Lotleth Troll, not only is he a discard outlet but he can get huge and his regeneration shouldn't be overlooked. Wild Mongrel and Fauna Shaman are great discard outlets as well. For targeted graveyard fill the classic Buried Alive and the newer Jarad's Orders can get you what you need.

There are two kinds of reanimation in the deck; recursive and one-time. Mimic Vat and Sheoldred, Whispering One fall into the recursive category. They reanimate every turn, or conditionally every turn. There is also a nice synergy between Doomed Necromancer and Sun Titan. The best one-time reanimators are the ones that don't actually only work once; such as Beacon of Unrest, Unburial Rites, or Dread Return . It's always good to resolve an enormous Living End as well.

There are some good ways to cheat creatures into play as well as reanimation.Hunting Grounds is definitely an all-star, and I can't encourage you to play it enough. The deck is designed with Wild Pair in mind, and has enough creature density to run Lurking Predators.

The important thing is to keep your opponents' threats subdued. Aura Shards and Qasali Pridemage are ways to keep down artifacts and enchantments. Mortify and Putrefy are a nice combination that only work in a Junk deck. Ashen Rider, Acidic Slime, and Beast Within take care of anything. If things get really out of hand Day of Judgment, Sunblast Angel , and Life's Finale are great reset buttons that will effect your opponents much more than it will you.

I'm always looking to improve the deck, so if you have suggestions just let me know. I'm a bit of a budget player, so if you could keep it cheap I'd really appreciate it.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.84
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone