Scarab God Zombie Tribal (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Scarab God Zombie Tribal

Commander / EDH Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Creature (32)

Land (37)

Enchantment (6)

Artifact (6)

Commander (1)

Instant (9)

Sorcery (8)

Planeswalker (1)

1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Maybeboard

Creature (6)

Sorcery (1)

1x Zombie Apocalypse

Planeswalker (1)

1x Liliana, Untouched By Death

The idea here is that I want to go wide with all my Zombies and then have The Scarab God deal damage to everyone each upkeep and I filter my draws.

This list is rough and still in need of some tweaking.

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Updates — Oct. 30, 2021

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This deck list is not as rough as I first thought. It actually works pretty well, but I've been working to try and optimize my list. I have made some changes here that I hope will work out well. With the release of the Innistrad Midnight Hunt commander Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, I got some new goodies to play with, including Wilhelt himself, to help upgrade my deck. I tried to remove some of my creatures and replace them with what I hope ends up being better options. I swapped out Plague Belcher for Midnight Reaper because I feel that overall, getting more cards into my hand will be better in the long run because I have plenty of zombies I can spit out for massive amounts of damage, in addition to The Scarab God's effect each upkeep. I had a hard time trying to figure out what creatures to cut to make room for new cards. I pulled out my Scourge of Nel Toth and Risen Executioner because I felt that I have better ways to get a creature out of my graveyard that are less restrictive. I also pulled out Prized Amalgam but that was tough because I do have a lot of ways to get other creatures out of my yard and it's always fun to have him piggyback along for the ride. I pulled out Grave Titan for the sole reason that he is not a zombie (even though he's really good and I will still keep him in my maybeboard). I also pulled Phyrexian Delver and Havengul Runebinder to make room for other cards.

The creatures I swapped in to replace are Tomb Tyrant because you can never have too many zombie lords, Ebondeath, Dracolich since he is easier to get out my graveyard, Hordewing Skaab because who wouldn't want to give all my zombies flying and let me do a little looting, and Gravespawn Sovereign in the hopes that I can bring back the creatures that either die or are discarded away. I also put in Ravenous Rotbelly to sac some tokens or others and force my opponents to sacrifice their creatures. This one might get pulled back out if the self sacrifice is too oppressive for my board state and game plan, but with how many tokens this deck should be able to churn out I don't know that it will be an issue. These are in addition to Wilhelt and Midnight Reaper, as previously mentioned.

I also got a couple of fun new spells to also try and play with too. I swapped out Skullclamp for the Wand of Orcus because that equipment is so much more powerful than Skullclamp in this particular deck. I have enough other methods to draw cards that I think giving my zombies deathtouch and creating more zombies will be better for me in the long run. I replaced Liliana's Mastery with Open the Graves because I believe that will be more synergistic with this deck. I have enough zombie lords that I shouldn't miss the +1/+1 buff from it, and ideally Open the Graves will produce many more zombie tokens than Liliana's Mastery because of how many zombies I run. I decided to replace Stir the Sands with Empty the Laboratory because if I get a solid number of creatures on the battlefield, I should be able to sacrifice them (tokens included) to spit out a large quantity of zombies from my deck. I think this will be a fun card to add a little spice to the deck and hopefully will be more useful than Stir the Sands. I also decided to swap out Fact or Fiction with Drown in Dreams for two reasons. One, I can draw cards and ultimately aim to mill myself and get extra zombies in my yard if I need to, or I can still draw cards and punish my opponents by forcing them to mill as payback.

All in all, some of these swaps were pretty tough, but I feel that these (especially Hordewing Skaab, because there is nothing scarier than flying zombies) should help optimize the deck

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93% Casual

Competitive

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Knight 2/2 B, Zombie / U
Folders	EDH Decks, Big Ol' Decks
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