Mmm... Brains - A Zombie EDH

Commander / EDH Tribal UB (Dimir) Zombie

Kirtanian

Instant (8)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cruel Revival
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Negate
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Spell Crumple

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Hex
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Mind Control
• 1x Mind Unbound
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Artifact (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind

Creature (28)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Clone
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Maalfeld Twins
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zombie Master
• 1x Zombie Trailblazer

Land (36)

• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 13x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 19x Swamp

Commander (1)

---

Maybeboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Zombify

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Dance of the Dead

Artifact (1)

• 1x MImic Vat

Creature (5)

• 1x Filth
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh

---

THE GOAL:
This deck is formed around a bunch of fun zombie interactions. I like to make my decks as thematic as possible while still being playable.

CARD CHOICES:

• Psychic Strike , Negate, Soul Manipulation , Spell Crumple: All hard counters

• Buried Alive, Rune-Scarred Demon, Increasing Ambition, Diabolic Tutor, Corpse Harvester: Tutors. Buried alive fetches me Wonder, Gravecrawler and something I want to reanimate.

• Beacon of Unrest, Animate Dead, Zombie Apocolypse, Lord of the Undead, Cruel Revival , Soul Manipulation , Gravedigger , Havengul Lich, Geth, Lord of the Vault, Oversold Cemetery, Victimize, Sepulchral Primordial: Lots of recursion. It is a zombie deck after all.

• Life's Finale, Hex , Sadistic Sacrament, Reaper from the Abyss, Cruel Revival , Grimgrin, Corpse-Born: These are all removal in their own way.

• Consuming Aberration, Undead Alchemist, Geth, Lord of the Vault, Lich Lord of Unx, Sword of Body and Mind: Mill elements to give me fun targets for reanimation. Have won a few games by constantly returning Undead Alchemist to the battlefield to mill out an opponent.

• Rhystic Study, Disciple of Bolas, Harvester of Souls, Mind Unbound : Draw power

• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, Zombie Master , Grave Betrayal, Zombie Apocalypse: Help against board wipes. Mikaeus is fun when I sacrifice to Grimgrin since none of my creatures are human they all come back. Grave Betrayal is fun; when attacking with Grimgrin I get to "choose" a creature I would like to keep

• Mind Control , Control Magic, Corrupted Conscience, Blatant Thievery: Ways to steal my opponents creatures or permanents to use against them. Can also be done with things in their graveyards using Geth, Lord of the Vault, Beacon of Unrest, Animate Dead, Lazav, Dimir Mastermind and Gravespawn Sovereign

COMBOS:

• Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Grave Titan or Maalfeld Twins = an arbitrary amount of zombies. Use Sepulchral Primordial instead to take all the creatures from your opponents' graveyards.

• Grimgrin + Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm = Arbitrarily large GrimGrin. Add in Diregraf Captain or vengeful undead to win the game. With Consuming Aberration out you can mill your opponents to death. Without those you can use Noxious Ghoul to clear the field leaving most of your creatures intact.

Top Ranked	Achieved #67 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	12 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	4.25
Tokens	Copy Clone, Wolf 2/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB
Folders	Ideas..., interesting ideas, Decks to Check out, wants, EDH Dimir, Ya, EDH, edh build, Favorites of ALL TIME, Decks