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Varina, Lich Queen - Beauty and BRAAAAINS

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper) Zombie

Dumannios

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My final hope and attempt to make a functional, fun, hopefully with the potential to win zombie tribal deck. I've tried what I feel to be every possible Dimir commander fit for zombies out there. The Scarab God, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, Gisa and Geralf and they never seem to do much (In my playgroup anyway) unfortunately. Hopefully playing Varina, and going from Dimir to Esper adds a few extra tools to at least close out some games.

I did not include Approach of the Second Sun as an alt win con because, even though it synergizes really well with Varina, winning with it just feels so lackluster to me.

I would very much like to hear anyone who checks out this deck their thoughts and appreciate suggestions and feedback.

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Cuts and replacements — Nov. 15, 2020
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12/10/2020

Replaced Dreadhorde Invasion with Reconnaissance. Dreadhorde invasion felt like it gave too little value since most other tokens will not go to 6. Instead being able to attack and save my zombies to still get the trigger from Varina or giving them pseudo vigilance by untapping them after damage is dealt feels like it would be way better.

Replaced Dark Salvation with Calculating Lich. Dark salvation felt a bit costly and I didn't see myself using it in a lot of situations. If it's to deal with indestructible creatures, there's exiles for that. Calculating lich rewards for attacking with zombies which is exactly what I want this deck to do. And on top of that it also works together well with the newly added Reconnaissance

23/10/2020

After a lot of thought I've decided to take out Army of the Damned. As much as I love the flavor of the card, it puts a massive bullseye on your head. All zombies enter tapped, it costs 8 mana so it mostly costs the entire turn most of the time and also, you just rarely untap with all the zombies still on the field at that point in the game. I decided to take Pphatty87's suggestion and try adding Noxious Ghoul for some more board control.

25/10/2020

As per suggestion of meilers I'm indeed going to try out Graveborn Muse and cutting Undead Augur for it. I'm also taking out Endless Ranks of the Dead. As good as the card sounds it's just too slow. Potentially it's strong when combined with Anointed Procession but that's too big of an "if" for me. Instead I'm going to add Vengeful Pharaoh Which can be a nice deterrent from attackers since my playgroup plays with a lot of big beaters or it can be a beater himself.

06/11/2020

With commander legends coming out we got a few new interesting toys that I'm aching to try out. I cut Binding Mummy and From Under the Floorboards for Tormod, the Desecrator and Necrotic Hex. From Under the Floorboards never really yielded a lot of impressive results and I'm glad to have an additional "Boardwipe" from Necrotic Hex. I'm not too sure about Binding Mummy being gone as I never really got to test it out so it might go back in at some point. But Tormod, the Desecrator is too good not to include.

15/11/2020

Did some further tweaking on the mana base to help color fixing.

Added two fetches, Cavern of Souls, Reflecting Pool and Vault of Champions

I also cut the following:

Orzhov Signet for Expedition Map

Talisman of Hierarchy for Urza's Incubator

Calculating Lich for Leyline of Anticipation Cutting the Lich hurt me a little bit since I love the card, but the last few games I played I couldn't close because I had to wait a full turn after my plays before I could do anything and by then it was too late. So trying out giving my spells Flash to see if that can improve the impact of cards like Zombie Apocalypse, Living Death and Necrotic Hex.

09/03/2021

Necromancer's Covenant for Rise of the Dread Marn While I really like covenant for the lifelink and graveyard hate, it was an extremely expensive spell to cast for a potentially mediocre result. Instead I'm going for the new card from Kaldheim Rise of the dread Marn, which will allow to very rapidly recreate a boardstate after a wipe. This leaves me without any graveyard hate in the deck, but I decided to take the risk. If you decide to try out this deck and have a meta with a lot of graveyard nonsense, it's probably better to just stuff in a Tormod's crypt instead.

21/04/2021

Cut Ghoulcaller Gisa for Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

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Date added 3 years
Last updated 2 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)

15 - 0 Mythic Rares

39 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.45
Tokens Copy Clone, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste
Folders Commander Decks (Dumannios), Interesting tribals
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