Living Dead Girl (Varina, Lich Queen)

Commander / EDH Multiplayer WUB (Esper) Zombie

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Creature (31)

• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Possessed Skaab
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh
• 1x Wayward Servant
• 1x Withered Wretch
• 1x Zombie Master

Artifact (6)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Nim Deathmantle

Land (34)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x High Market
• 1x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (4)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Necromancer's Covenant
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x From Under the Floorboards
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

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Zombie beat down deck.

Pros

• Lowers opponents HP via loss of life ETB/LTB effects and swarm the opponent with creatures.
• High amount of graveyard recursion
• Long lasting deck and gets stronger the longer the game goes

Cons

• Can be a bit slower against fast decks
• Avoids some strong Esper cards to maintain a strong zombie theme
• Low amount of interaction. Aims to become the threat and have people waste theirs while you recur

P.S. Always looking for suggestions and comments to improve the deck while maintaining a strong zombie theme.

Crucible of Worlds This card normally not seen and should be cut if you want to be more competitive deck. Its included because it makes for a faster more fun game since when you draw and discard from Varina, Lich Queen you can just discard lands to make the process alot quicker.

Alhammarret's Archive and Graveborn Muse help keep your hand full. Out of the 2 Alhammarret's Archive is the stronger since it doubles life gain as well and has pretty much no downside.

Obzedat's Aid this is used to get the harder to get cards from the graveyard.

Reconnaissance is honestly one of the most powerful cards in the deck. This card allows you to declare attacks. Gain all the triggers from Varina, Lich Queen. Then say your opponents block some of them you then pay 0 and pull them out of combat (take note you already got the attack triggers). The thing is it gets even better. Once dmg has gone through and dealt you will also have priority out can then pay 0 again to pull them out of combat so its like they have vigilance. The one thing to note is this is a activation costs so if something makes you pay more or prevent activation will stop this. Another Great trick is with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born is once its untapped you can attack and destroy a creature and untap him with Reconnaissance so you don't have to keep saccing creatures (Unless you want too).

Shepherd of Rot is a card that some might shy away from due to the fact it effects you as well but you will be gaining life from Varina, Lich Queen ability so you will be surviving longer than your opponents. Another thing to note is its 1 dmg for ANY zombie on the board, including opponents.

Combo

There is one combo in the deck which revolves around Ashnod's Altar, Nim Deathmantle and Grave Titan. Now this combo almost never needs to happen. The deck isn't focused towards it. Each of these cards are effective in the deck one their own. Anyway you have all 3 of these things in play. Grave Titan will give you 2 zombie tokens. You then sack 1 token and Grave Titan to Ashnod's Altar. You then use the 4 mana generated to used Nim Deathmantle ability to bring Grave Titan back onto the battlefield. This then makes another 2 zombie tokens. This gives you a few things. You have infinite colorless mana and you have infinite zombies, Infinite zombies entering and infinite zombies leaving and hitting the graveyard. So with Wayward Servant or Vengeful Dead you can kill the whole table. If you have the highest life total and Shepherd of Rot you can make enough zombies to kill everyone. If you have nothing else you can just have a million zombies to swarm everyone the next turn.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.30
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B