Restless Cemetery

Commander / EDH Lifegain Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

DrSnipy

Creature (31)

• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Champion of the Perished
• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Hordewing Skaab
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Patchwork Crawler
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Tainted Adversary
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Undead Warchief

Land (36)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Contaminated Aquifer
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 5x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Wand of Orcus
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (4)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Feeding Frenzy
• 1x Lazotep Plating

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Charnel Serenade
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Gruesome Menagerie
• 1x Midnight Ritual
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Necroduality

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

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Maybeboard

Creature (10)

• 1x Bladestitched Skaab
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign
• 1x Grim Servant
• 1x Overcharged Amalgam
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Vizier of the Scorpion

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Liliana, Untouched By Death

Land (9)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Field of the DeadGC
• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Instant (2)

• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Rise of the Dread Marn

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Eaten Alive
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Necromantic Selection

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Haunted One
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Artifact (3)

• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Icon of Ancestry
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

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What is it?

Zombie tribal in the colors of Dimir! {B}{U}

Restrictions

Building this Deck, I set the following restrictions for myself:

• only Zombie Creatures
• a lot of the Big Zombie Spells
• flavor before function (still some function, if there is none it isnt fun)
• build the deck for long-term play (I wanna play this deck alot, so there needs to be some kind of diversity)

Gameplan

1. Collect a few Zombies.
2. ???
3. Turn sideways
4. ???
5. Buff the Zombies and interact with the other Players
6. Profit (win and/or a fun game)

Winconditions

• black devotion win -> Gray Merchant of Asphodel

• mass zombie win -> Shepherd of Rot and/or Gempalm Polluter

• "fake" voltron win -> Rogue's Passage + anyone of these Champion of the Perished, Diregraf Colossus or Unbreathing Horde

• "overrun" win -> Rise of the Dark Realms or Zombie Apocalypse or Empty the Laboratory(last one only works if you have a few tokens you dont need)

Main Synergies

Here you can find two card combinations that have a high synergie in the deck.

Noxious Ghoul:

One Sided Boardwipes

• Army of the Damned + Noxious Ghoul

• Noxious Ghoul + Zombie Apocalypse

One Sided Boardwipes, when there are enough Targets

• Empty the Laboratory + Noxious Ghoul

• Dread Summons + Noxious Ghoul

When I discover more things that work really well together Ill add them here.

Deck Content

- Some key components of the deck are:

• Ramp: Dimir Signet, Arcane Signet, Crowded Crypt, Herald's Horn, Sol Ring and Undead Warchief

• Card draw: Fact or Fiction, Midnight Reaper, Cryptbreaker, Graveborn Muse, Undead Augur, Castle Locthwain and Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver.

• Boardwipes: Necrotic Hex, Toxic Deluge, Noxious Ghoul, Zombie Apocalypse(against Human Tribal) and Liliana, Death's Majesty

• Targeted Removal: Feeding Frenzy, Dark Salvation and Murderous Rider.

• Lifegain: Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Murderous Rider.

• Copy Zombies: Cleaver Skaab and Necroduality

• Tokencreation: (1-3) Dreadhorde Invasion, Midnight Ritual, Cemetery Reaper, Cryptbreaker, Diregraf Colossus, Gleaming Overseer, Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, Graf Harvest, Liliana's Mastery, Lazotep Plating and Liliana, Death's Majesty

• Mass Tokencreation: (potential for 3+) Tainted Adversary, Endless Ranks of the Dead, Dark Salvation, Crowded Crypt, Army of the Damned, Dread Summons, Wand of Orcus, Undead Alchemist and Necrotic Hex

• Buffing Tokens: Dreadhorde Invasion, Whip of Erebos, Undead Warchief, Cemetery Reaper, Death Baron, Diregraf Captain, Gleaming Overseer, Lord of the Accursed, Lord of the Undead, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, Ratadrabik of Urborg, Tomb Tyrant, Liliana's Mastery, Necromancer's Covenant, Eternal Skylord and Hordewing Skaab

• They keep on coming back! Gruesome Menagerie, Charnel Serenade, Victimize, Gravecrawler, Havengul Lich, Lord of the Undead, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, Relentless Dead, Patchwork Crawler and Tomb Tyrant

Afterword

The Maybeboard is for changes I'm planing, or you could take into consideration if you're building a Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver Deck.

Feel free to leave any suggestions in the comments!

Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #35 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH WUB (Esper) 2 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	6 months
Key combos	Army of the Damned + Noxious Ghoul Noxious Ghoul + Zombie Apocalypse Empty the Laboratory + Noxious Ghoul Dread Summons + Noxious Ghoul
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Copy Clone, On an Adventure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	EDH Decks, Tribal, maybe, Other Peoples decks to use for ideas