Gravewater

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Lands (35)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the DeadGC
• 4x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 4x Snow-Covered Island
• 5x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Watery Grave

Player Damage (5)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Loyal Subordinate
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Vengeful Dead

Ability Duplication (3)

• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Virtue of Knowledge

Creature Removal (3)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly
• 1x Stronghold Assassin

Counterspell (1)

• 1x Countersquall

Permanent Destroy (1)

• 1x No Mercy

Zombie Tokens & Duplication (10)

• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Necroduality
• 1x Poppet Stitcher  ^Flip
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x The Scarab God

Mana & Spell Cost Reduction (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Graveyard to Battlefield (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Persist
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Rot Hulk

Tutor to Hand (4)

• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

Lifegain (3)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Sacrifice Abuse (1)

• 1x Gravecrawler

Commander (1)

Buffers (8)

• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Gisa, the Hellraiser
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Undead Warchief

Draw Cards (6)

• 1x Archghoul of Thraben
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x NecropotenceGC
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Undead Augur

Counterdead & Protection (3)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Tutor to Graveyard (3)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Vile Entomber

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Sideboard

Other (7)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Headless Rider
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

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Maybeboard

Other (271)

• 1x Acererak the Archlich
• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Agonizing Remorse
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Ashiok's Erasure
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Bankrupt in Blood
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Blade of Shared Souls
• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1x Bladestitched Skaab
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Divination
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cellar Door
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Clone
• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Shallow Graves
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dauthi Embrace
• 1x Dauthi Ghoul
• 1x Deadly Plot
• 1x Debt to the Kami
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Distress
• 1x Do or Die
• 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Duress
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Endling
• 1x Entomb
• 2x Escaped Null
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Everglades
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Feldon's Cane
• 1x Filth
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Foulmire Knight
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Geralf, the Fleshwright
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghastly Gloomhunter
• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Ghoulish Procession
• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Gisa's Bidding
• 1x Gisa's Favorite Shovel
• 1x Gisa, the Hellraiser
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Grave Defiler
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Haunted One
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Headless Rider
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Hordewing Skaab
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1x Mire Triton
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Moan of the Unhallowed
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Necromaster Dragon
• 1x Necromentia
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 2x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Not Dead After All
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Overcharged Amalgam
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Persist
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Pharika's Libation
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Crusader
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Pile On
• 1x Pilfer
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Poppet Stitcher  ^Flip
• 1x Possessed Skaab
• 1x Poxwalkers
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Raise the Palisade
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly
• 1x Reanimate
• 2x Reanimate
• 1x Recoil
• 1x Recurring Nightmare
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remand
• 1x Resurrection Orb
• 1x Return to Action
• 1x Rhystic Tutor
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Rise of the Dread Marn
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shattered Dreams
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Skull Skaab
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Soulless One
• 1x Spell Rupture
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 2x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tattered Mummy
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Thran Foundry
• 1x Toll of the Invasion
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Tombstone Stairwell
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1x Tradewind Rider
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 2x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Unstoppable Slasher
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Wand of Orcus
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Willbender
• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Witchbane Orb
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Yarok, the Desecrated
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse
• 1x Zombie Infestation
• 1x Zombie Master
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

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Deck Theme

Zombie Horde

• Overwhelm with huge numbers of Zombie Tokens and Zombie Duplication
• Duplicating Abilities that create even more Zombies or Trigger additional effects (Gary)
• Creatures, Spells and Abilities that support the boyz
• Creatures that won't stay dead.

Tutor Priority

Tutor to Hand Priority

• Necropotence (Card Draw)
• Vensor's Journal (Life Gain)
• Buried Alive (Gary/Mike/Rothulk GY Tutor) and any Graveyard to Battlefield spell (Setup for Gary Combo)
• Strionic Resonator or Virtue of Knowledge (Ability Duplication/Gary Viagra)
• Rooftop Storm or Necroduality (Free Zombies/Duplicate Zombies)

Tutor to Graveyard Priority

• Gary (Life Gain/Player Damage)
• Rothulk (Resurrect Zombies)
• Mikaeus (Creature Protection)
• Ravenous Rotbelly (Creature Nuke)
• Gravecrawler (Little Bastard)

Combos

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Gary & Friends (Massive Damage+Heal)

• Buried Alive put Gary, Mike & Rothulk in the Graveyard
• Cast a Graveyard to Battlefield spell like Persist, Reanimate to pull Rothulk to the Battlefield and bring Gary and Mike along with whoever else is in the graveyard.

Tips:

• Put Kaya's Ghostform on Gary
• Try to bring Gary out when you have Ability Duplication AND Zombie Duplication available like Necroduality and Panharmonicon
• Gary loves Cauldron of Souls

Beware of Graveyard Exile

Me: Turn 1 Dark Ritual -> Buried Alive -> Gary, Mike, Rothulk

Opponent: Turn 1 Bojuka Bog my GY

Me: ....

Beware of Graveyard Exile

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Wilhelt & Poppet Factory (Infinite Zombie Token Replacements)

• Wilhelt creates Zombie Tokens with Decayed
• Poppet Factory removes Decayed ability from Tokens
• Now when a Zombie dies Wilhelt will make a Zombie Token without Decayed
• If it dies, Wilhelt triggers (because Decayed doesnt exist) and it comes back without Decayed again.

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Mikaeus, The Unhallowed & Soul Cauldron (Perma Undying/Persist)

• Mikaeus Undying gives +1/+1 Counters when a Creature dies
• Cauldron Persist gives -1/-1 Counters when a Creature dies
• When a creature dies these two counters cancel each other out allowing Undying and Persist to trigger again the next time they die.

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Strategies & Tactics

Early Game

Tutoring, Setting up the Graveyard, Getting Draw Cards in play

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Tutor NecropotenceGC and other Draw Cards to your hand and get into play ASAP. Next Tutor Lifegain cards like Venser's Journal to keep you alive until backup arise.

Using Tutor to Graveyard spells like Buried Alive and Entomb put Priority Creatures into the Graveyard.

Pull Creatures like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Rot Hulk back to the Battlefield cheap using Animate Dead, Persist, Reanimate

Early to Mid Game

Setting up Zombie buffs and Combos

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Summon Commander & Tutor for Poppet Stitcher   ASAP to upgrade your 2/2 Decayed Zombie Tokens into self-replacing normal 3/3 Zombie Tokens. (Combo)

Put Enchantments like Kaya's Ghostform onto Creatures like Gray Merchant of Asphodel then couple with Cleaver Skaab to start triggering massive Enter the Battlefield effects.

Get Enchantments like Endless Ranks of the Dead, Necroduality to start massing Tokens & Zombie Copies

Mid Game to Late Game

Enabling mass resurrection, Final win conditions

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Get Rooftop Storm onto the Battlefield ASAP

Get both Cauldron of Souls and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed to give all your creatures perma-undying/persist.

Dictate of Erebos + Zombie 2/2 B to wipe the board of Opponent creatures.

Top Ranked	Achieved #18 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #14 position in Commander / EDH 1 year ago Achieved #6 position in Commander / EDH Tokens 1 year ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 1 Mythic Rares 35 - 5 Rares 24 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Human Soldier 1/1 W, On an Adventure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Rogue 2/2 UB, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB
Folders	Daisy's Undead Mill