Shambling Shifters

Commander / EDH Control Cruel Control Superfriends UBR (Grixis) Zombie

Thunderbumper

Land (30)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (15)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x God-Eternal Kefnet
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Phylactery Lich
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Soul Diviner
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Vizier of the Scorpion

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Oath of Liliana
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Planeswalker (14)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Will Kenrith

Instant (11)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Terminate

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Sorcery (3)

• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Praetor's Grasp

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Creature (1)

• 1x Coffin Queen

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Steal Enchantment

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This deck focuses on planeswalkers who can defend themselves, bodies who provide card draw or recursion value and answers to common board state problems. Kess comes in mid-late game to provide spell recursion to keep the answers coming and since many of the planeswalkers who can defend themselves have a zombie theme, a Zombie Tribal was added to allow for more synergy and bodies to protect planeswalkers.

This deck works in three phases.

Turn 1-3 The first phase is designed to drop a few early game blockers with value engines attached. Each body should be able to create more bodies or allow for card draw. You will also drop mana rocks during this phase.

Turn 4-5 The second phase is to put out 1-2 planeswalkers to help keep the pressure on. Each planeswalker should help with removing a problem by destroying a creature or by presenting blockers to further help defend their value engines.

Turn 5+ Board wipe. This allows your planeswalkers to continue to grind down your opponent's answers while you draw for more of your own.

Special note: Nearly every spell is designed to allow for repeat value engines, targeted removal to disrupt opponent's combos, or complete board shift spells. Sudden Spoiling and Polymorphist's Jest are excellent examples of ways to disrupt board states and to punish any attacks.

Special Special note: Two lands, Sanctum of Eternity and Riptide Laboratory , along with Darksteel Plate allow Kess to avoid your own board wipes. This helps keep the pressure on as you can recast Kess, Dissident Mage instead of paying the commander tax.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Construct 1/1 C Token w/ Defender, Copy Clone, Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Emblem Will Kenrith, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Based on	Bolas' Chains Thunderbumper EDH