Scarab Swarm

Commander / EDH Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

Delta101

Creature (23)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Champion of the Perished
• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Draugr Necromancer *f-pre*
• 1x Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Liliana's Elite
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Narfi, Betrayer King
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tainted Adversary
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ice Tunnel
• 3x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 14x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God

Instant (10)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Defile
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Neutralize
• 1x Raise the Draugr
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Village Rites

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Crawl from the Cellar
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x From Under the Floorboards
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Raise Dead
• 1x Return from Extinction
• 1x Said / Done
• 1x Sign in Blood

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

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This is a The Scarab God deck of my own design. I can't afford a ton of expensive cards, and want to buy fetches eventually, but I am focusing on streamlining the deck first. Please leave comments with suggestions and corrections! The first section of the description is what I need help with, and the second is an overview of the deck's wincons.

Current Requests for Advice

1. After playing it a bit and running some practice draws irl, I think the deck's biggest challenge is failing to get either a draw engine (card draw spells, Consecrated Sphinx, etc.). If you have any idea to more consistently get card draw, please suggest it!

2. I have had some draws where it takes me far too long to actually get more than one zombie on board. This shuts off Endless Ranks of the Dead and The Scarab God. Please recommend cards that have repeatable zombie creation on them or cheap, synergistic zombies themselves!

3. Mana can also occasionally be an issue, but once Endless Ranks of the Dead and The Scarab God are online or Consecrated Sphinx enters play that's solved. I would like to add more ramp but I don't know what to add and what to replace.

4. The avg CMC is now above 3 and I want to cut it down slightly, so please make suggestions.

Deck Details: The deck's wincons tend to focus on sacrificing or upkeep damage.

For the first, Carrion Feeder, Ashnod's Altar, and Yawgmoth, Than Physician all make effective sack outlets, and with Syr Konrad, the Grim and Mindcrank on the field they easily end the game, though Yawgmoth, Thran Physician wants to have either Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat as well to offset the "pay 1 life", and those cards accelerate the combo and should be used whenever able. This relies on having a lot of zombies in play, but the deck runs a multitude of ways to create them.

First Wincon Listed:

Carrion Feeder + Mindcrank + Syr Konrad, the Grim

Ashnod's Altar + Mindcrank + Syr Konrad, the Grim

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Blood Artist + Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Zulaport Cutthroat + Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank

The second looks a bit different, and relies on some trickier combos. On an ideal turn, keep all of your mana open (or as much as possible) while having Yawgmoth, Thran Physician or Cryptbreaker (untapped) on board alongside Endless Ranks of the Dead and The Scarab God. On the end step before your turn, activate your discard outlet on Yawgmoth, Thran Physician or Cryptbreaker and discard From Under the Floorboards, playing it for its madness cost, which can happen at instant speed, and pumping as much mana into it as possible. Then, during your upkeep, stack your triggers and resolve Endless Ranks of the Dead first, then The Scarab God. This only works in longer games, and once your opponents life totals are lower, but you will probably have around enough mana for 8-10 zombies, and have at least 2 more on board, so with Endless Ranks of the Dead you'll have 16-18+ zombies, dealing 16-18+ damage to each opponent. This can also then be paired with the first wincon to finish off opponents.

Second Wincon Listed:

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + From Under the Floorboards + Endless Ranks of the Dead + The Scarab God

Cryptbreaker + From Under the Floorboards + Endless Ranks of the Dead + The Scarab God

Note, the versions of cards are not the ones I necessarily use. I obviously don't have any 40k cards, Tappedout just picked the most recent versions.

I did add Sanguine Bond, so the Exquisite Blood into Sanguine Bond combo is online.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Carrion Feeder + Mindcrank + Syr Konrad, the Grim Ashnod's Altar + Mindcrank + Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie */* U