Scarab God Escalation

Commander / EDH Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick Tribal UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Creature (29)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Blood Scrivener
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Havengul Runebinder
• 1x Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Soulless One
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Zombie Master

Land (37)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 11x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Empty the Pits
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Void Shatter

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Training Grounds

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

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Please help me make this more competitive!!!

Intro and explanation

This is a Scarab God tribal zombie deck.

I've built it out of what I had to spare after cannibalizing my Thraximundar Deck.

Escalation

The plan is to slowly make 1 for 1 switches to upgrade this to eventually be a somewhat higher tier deck (Maybe?).

So I've posted the deck in it's infancy so that maybe I could get a few directions on the long journey to upgrade this monster.

in the below sections I show some cards I think I need to switch out and explain a bit.

Weak Links Show

Weak Critters

These guys fit the tribal theme but shouldn't stay in likely

Havengul Runebinder - Zombie tokens and buffing makes this guy pretty rad, but maybe something better?

Noosegraf Mob - an 8 drop 5/5 that makes tokens is... okay? but it has to survive 5 spells being played.

Sepulchral Primordial - pretty powerful in multiplayer, but I consider it on non-conducive to the deck's theme.

Ammit Eternal - Decent 3 drop in more limited formats but I'm sure EDH can do better.

Advanced Stitchwing - It flies, that's pretty much it.

Blood Scrivener - Card draw I guess

Weak Instants

Empty the Pits - 2 cost per token with a 4B start up cost? Notsobad I guess.

Sudden Spoiling - Nice on the defensive, but who falls for a black player with 3 untapped mana and a hand

Void Shatter - counterspells are nice, but at 3 drop something better might fit here

I know I have a lot of killspells, and I am really tempted to throw a dreadbore in to kill more walkers.So I might even reduce the kill spells.

Weak Sorcery

Rite of Replication - This card has a lot of love from me in any deck with blue, but maybe this one time something else should go here? At the same time replicating a grave titan or lord of the accursed feels dirty

Oblivion Strike - Removal at sorcery speed? Lame. Removal of Indestructible commanders? Maybe

Torment of Hailfire - May cause opponents to sac creatures for Thrax, affects each opponent, combine with cabal coffers shenanigans. Still feels a bit weak for format. Thoughts?

Doomfall - Force opponents to make tough decisions or exile a bounced creature I guess. Could swap it

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.33
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B