The Scarab God

Legendary Creature — God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. (Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them on top or bottom of your library in any order.)

{2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Tokens

• Copy Clone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

philias on Card creation challenge

2 months ago

The One who Devoured Xlix {B}{G}{R}

Legendary Creature: Scorpion (Uncommon)

Menace

At the beginning of your post-combat mainphase, if ~ attacked, it does 1 damage to each other creature.

2/4

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Make a new card for The Scarab God or The Locust God

philias on Card creation challenge

2 months ago

The One who Devoured Xlix {B}{G}{R}

Legendary Creature: Scorpion (Uncommon)

Menace

At the beginning of your post-combat mainphase, if ~ attacked, it does 1 damage to each other creature.

2/4

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Make a new card for The Scarab God or The Locust God

philias on Card creation challenge

2 months ago

Nadu, Expedition Leader {2G}{R}{U}

Legendary Creature: Bird Warrior

Flying

Creatures you control have “Whenever this becomes the target of a spell or ability, it explores. If a card was put into your graveyard this way, this creature fights a creature. This ability only triggers once each turn.”

3/4

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Shouldn’t be as bad, since you’re not putting lands directly onto the battlefield. Your forces may also eventually turn on eachother if there aren’t enough opposing creatures to fight.

Create a new card for the The Scorpion God, The Scarab God, or The Locust God

luizfpa on Advertise your COMMANDER deck!

9 months ago

@capwner, nice deck! I also have a problematic deck to deal with in my pod, some The Scarab God EDH in a pod full of graveyard decks... Since your deck is well rounded, I don't think I have anything to add, but have you seen the new card Archdruid's Charm from the new set MKM? Maybe it is a nice modal tutor to include...?

Ruby_Rule on Gisa and Geralf's Graveyard Games

10 months ago

Thanks for your feedback! I appreciate the help on this deck as for The Scarab God I'd replace Havengul Lich since Scarab does his job better. For Secrets of the Dead I run River Kelpie since it does the same effect but for each player not just my own and can also combo with mikeaus, the unhallowed if you have a sac outlet. For the Liliana's Reaver I'd run Mindleech Ghoul as it's faster to get cards out of all my opponents hands.

NV_1980 on Gisa and Geralf's Graveyard Games

10 months ago

Nice. The Scarab God is amazing in zombie-themed decks. If you'd go for one, I would recommend cutting Corpse Connoisseur for it. Secrets of the Dead is exceptionally powerful considering your strategy (self-milling followed by casting). It's in your maybeboard right now but I'd definitely mainboard it. Liliana's Reaver is pretty spectacular value for its cmc; would consider that one too. Have fun with the brew! FYI, here's my own Gisa and Geralf deck.

mrweaselman on Stumbly Boys (EDH)

11 months ago

Starting with mana, you only have 44 sources. I would recommend going around 47. Sapphire Medallion and Jet Medallion are a lot better than the monuments, although more expensive. You want to avoid 3 mana rocks like Dimir Locket and Commander's Sphere, you have better options in two mana ones. Add Coldsteel Heart, Fellwar Stone, Dimir Signet, Talisman of Dominance and at least one land.

For interaction, you could add enchantment removal like Feed the Swarm. Bitter Triumph is new and may be better than Infernal Grasp here.

Since mill and discard can basically act as card draw, you can run cards like Mire Triton, Stitcher's Supplier, Undead Butler, Palantir of Orthanc, and Fact or Fiction, as well as sacrifice based card draw like Corrupted Conviction, Village Rites, and Deadly Dispute. There's also always all-stars Black Market Connections, Phyrexian Arena, and Rhystic Study if you want to go that direction.

Some card to protect your commander like Netherborn Altar, Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip, Zombie Master or Lightning Greaves / Swiftfoot Boots may be helpful if you rely on Gisa and it keeps getting removed.

There are certain cards I am not a fan of in this deck including Master of Death, Prized Amalgam, Scourge of Nel Toth, Tomebound Lich, Dead Revels, and Syphon Flesh.

Some other cards to consider include Cryptbreaker, Geralf, Visionary Stitcher, Ghoulcaller Gisa, Lord of the Undead, Noxious Ghoul, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, The Scarab God, Distant Melody, Buried Alive, Diabolic Intent, Liliana, Dreadhorde General. You could probably replace similar cards with these if they are better.

Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm + Sac Outlet is infinite. I don't think you run many sac outlets. You could add Acererak the Archlich to go infinite with just Rooftop Storm.

Mattio38 on Reanimator?! I Barely Vohar!

1 year ago

This looks like a very cool deck! I was recently trying to build something like this. If I read your description it plays really well? Don't you find yourself playing too few removal and ramp? And can you keep up with your recursion against the removal of all opponents??

Possible suggestions could be: Razaketh, the Foulblooded; he's big and he can tutor your next plan. Archfiend of Despair it's just a nasty beater. Maybe the The Scarab God for even more reanimation? And I figured if your commander gets stolen or let's say turned into an 3/3 Elk (Yes Oko, we've all been there) cards that do the same are for example Krovikan Sorcerer and Rona, Herald of Invasion  ^Flip Sorry, you've asked for cuts. I really can't help you with that yet...