A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie!

Commander / EDH Tokens Tribal WUB (Esper) Zombie

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Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (28)

• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh
• 1x Wayward Servant
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zombie Master

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Necromancer's Covenant
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Supreme Verdict

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Creature (12)

• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Cryptbreaker *f-pre*
• 1x Ertai, the Corrupted
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Undead Augur

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Revel in Riches *f-pre*

Land (15)

• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 6x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Instant (7)

• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x In Oketra's Name
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

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This is my first ever EDH deck (and MtG deck) I have ever put together! The goal of the deck is to swarm the field with a bunch of zombies and your opponents dead creatures. I will try to explain some of the cards/combos and their purpose the best I can.

First I will address the tutors. Their purpose is pretty self explanatory but I wanted to point them out. Demonic Tutor + Vampiric Tutor + Sidisi, Undead Vizier are used to tutor for anything you want at that point in the game. Enlightened Tutor isn't as versatile as the others but can be used to get the last piece to a combo or early game can get the beginning of the combo going for you to build on later.

Next are a few combos you can look to try and pull off to win or help win the game. To start out, Rooftop Storm + Gravecrawler is the key since you can spam the Gravecrawler recursion for free to then interact with the altars. From there you can go a few different routes. You can use the infinite Gravecrawler with Altar of Dementia to mill out your opponents very slowly. You can also use the infinite Gravecrawler with Phyrexian Altar and Skullclamp to draw your entire deck or until you find that missing piece to help you flood the field.

Since flooding the field with zombies is the whole point of the deck, you gotta have enough cards that will allow you to do just that. The ones that will give you the most zombies at once are a kicked Josu Vess, Lich Knight, Army of the Damned will give you two opportunities to use it, Necromancer's Covenant + Dread Summons are a good way to disrupt your opponents while also advancing your board state, Rise of the Dark Realms is another really good one to use to help end the game (especially after a board wipe), Thrilling Encore is something I have used to surprise my friends after one of them used a board wipe, and lastly Grave Betrayal punishes your opponents when they use sacrifice outlets or abilities. Most of that can be magnified with Anointed Procession which is such a great card to include since Varina, Lich Queen gives you access to white.

Cards that there to help protect yourself/board are the typical Mana Drain + Insidious Will + Utter End + Swords to Plowshares + Anguished Unmaking.

With Buried Alive you pretty much want to always discard Gravecrawler + Vengeful Pharaoh + Wonder. Those are the three creatures in the deck that benefit the most from being in the discard pile.

Lastly, you have to pump your zombies up before they go into battle since zombies by themselves aren't that large. Cemetery Reaper + Death Baron + Diregraf Captain + Lord of the Accursed + Lord of the Undead + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Undead Warchief all pump up your zombie horde. Then Zombie Master + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth allows your zombies to just walk right up to your opponents without being blocked.

Currently there aren't many things I would change about the deck. I am juggling around the idea to add Smothering Tithe + Revel in Riches since they also pair well with Anointed Procession and Revel in Riches would also give you another win condition. If I would add those then I might look at also including Vedalken Orrery since you could flash in Revel in Riches during the end step of the turn before yours for a quick and surprising win (after you get a ton of treasure tokens of course). Otherwise you might become a huge target if everyone else knew they would have to kill you before you win.

Overall, that is some of the highlights of the deck and I would love to hear your feedback on other inclusions. Some of my card choices are to try and have more fun with the deck. My friends don't have the highest level of decks so I have thought about them some while building and refining the list.

Shout out to the lists The Apocalypse has Begun!!! (EDH Tribal Series #3) and Varina, Lich Queen that I initially used as a huge inspiration while putting the list together. I also looked at EDHrec to see popular zombie cards that weren't in either of those lists.

Thanks for reading!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	RG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.33
Tokens	Copy Clone, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB