Zombie Dance Party (Zombie Tribal)

Commander / EDH* Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Creature (33)

• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Crow of Dark Tidings
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Filth
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Geralf's Masterpiece
• 1x Ghoulraiser
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign
• 1x Hordewing Skaab
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Screeching Skaab
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Yixlid Jailer
• 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord
• 1x Gorex, the Tombshell
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Stitcher Geralf
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator

Instant (10)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Deliberate
• 1x Drown in Dreams
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Negate
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Reaping the Graves
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Whirlwind Denial

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Ghouls' Night Out
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Chant
• 1x Macabre Waltz
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Deck of Many Things
• 1x Coldsteel Heart

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 11x Island
• 17x Swamp
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Port of Karfell
• 1x Thriving Isle

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

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Welcome to the Apocalypse!

Your one shop stop for eternal damnation and pain! Here at Z.A. Inc we aim to overrun your town with the undead and eat your brains! Please enjoy your stay!

Backstory/Lore

The Five Rules of Necrowarfare

1. No sponataneous awakenings
2. No luring, killing, or raising bystanders or livestock
3. Combatants face off at a predetermined place and time
4. Combatants must have at least three limbs in play
5. Headquarters are off limits

Competition has always existed between the siblings. In their aims to seize the city of thraben, they've brought themselves to new lows. They will crush all those who stand before them, even each other if it comes down to it.

The Plan

"There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered." -Minaldra, The Vizag Atum

Well. Here we go, ANOTHER zombie deck. This is a much more casual version of Dimir Zombies. We have big splashy spells and a High CMC with literally 0 infinite combos. That's right. ZERO. Our goal is not to mill anyone to death with Gravecrawler, or drain with Grave Titan and Nim Deathmantle. We are here to do one thing: Flood the board with zombies. We will drop huge zombies, give them flying and swampwalk, and murder everyone at the table. That's it. That's the strategy guys. You'll also notice that this is a budget build (Thank you midnight hunt!!!) most of the cards are under $1 because of re-prints (woooo). It still works, and it actually has some fun synergies.

Themes

Recursion Show

We have 21 cards here that would fall into this category. Everything from Grave to hand two lowering costs to summon a giant frickin' turtle.

Grave to Hand:

These are the most common (and normally cheapest) ways to get creatures from the grave!

Macabre Waltz

Lord of the Undead

Ghoulcaller's Chant

Gravedigger

Ghoulraiser

Gorex, the Tombshell

Our Grave to Battlefield

Usually a bit more expensive to play (and purchase) but leagues better than Grave to Hand.

Liliana, Death's Majesty

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Dread Return

Tomb Tyrant

Gisa and Geralf

Mass Self Recursion:

Zombie Apocalypse

Mass Recursion

The absolute best form of recursion. These cards will let you steal more than one creature from ANY Graveyard.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Ghoul's Night Out

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Gravespawn Sovereign

Grave Betrayal

One-Offs

Some stranger recursion spells that do weird things.

The Deck of Many Things: Gives us the option for GTH, or GTB effect. It can also draw us cards!

Geralf's Masterpiece: Puts stuff in our graveyard in order to SELF-recur it to the battlefield! Filling our graves is just an added bonus to the 7/7 flying behemoth we get.

Dralnu, Lich Lord: The OG Zombie that lets us cast one sorcery/instant from our graveyard for it's CMC. We can pull off some shenanigans if we happen to have Fatestitcher or Freed from the Real in the deck too. Nothing infinite, but 3-4 spells a turn can be game ending in a deck like this.

Zombies Show

"I confer with Death itself. What could you possibly do to injure me?" -Lord Dralnu

Lords

Lords are an important piece to any tribal deck. We removed most of our insane lords to bring down the power-level, but we still have some solid Lords!

Lord of the Undead

Tomb Tyrant

Gleaming Overseer

Diregraf Captain

Death Baron

Lord of the Accursed

Draw/Mill

As a Recursion themed zombie deck, we want to make sure we have enough cards in hand to keep the pressure up. Thankfully our graveyard acts as an infinitely large hand for us for most of our important cards!

Crow of Dark Tidings

Screeching Skaab

Forgotten Creation

Midnight Reaper

Hordewing Skaab

Liliana's Standard Bearer

Value

These are our zombies who don't really fall into any one category mentioned above, but also aren't token spawners.

Fatestitcher

Undead Alchemist

Vile Entomber

Shepherd of Rot

Yixlid Jailer

Unbreathing Horde

Fleshbag Marauder

Tokens Show

"With Thraben's Army recalled to its city walls, outlying villages were left to fend for themselves."

Can't Stop Won't Stop

When originally building this deck I sought to escape from the token trope of tribal decks... So I built with as little token spawning spells as possible and quickly realized that zombie decks in particular LOVE tokens. Many of the better value cards are better BECAUSE they also create tokens. You cannot escape the token. Embrace the Token.

Endless Ranks of the Dead

Necromancer's Stockpile

Tormod, the Desecrator

Diregraf Colossus

Grave Titan

Cleaver Skaab

Stitcher Geralf

Liliana, Death's Majesty

Synergies

Zombies do one thing really well: Synergy. So many zombies work well with other zombies! It's a super easy deck to pilot because of this. You just summon a ton of creatures, work with the ETB triggers, and then death triggers when they die!

ETB

We have 11 different creatures with ETB (Enter the Battlefield) triggers! Our goal is to abuse them with our recursion spells. Whether it's spawning tokens on ETB with Grave Titan or Gleaming Overseer, or you want to force a sacrifice with your Fleshbag Marauder, you can do so much stuff when your zombies hit the battlefield! Our recursion spells are going to be awesome here, giving us the opportunity to get 2-3 etb effects off one card, and some well known combos are built off of ETB effects. Infinite tokens with Grave Titan and Nim Deathmantle any one?

Let's Draw!

One particular synergy I enjoy is Dralnu, Lich Lord + Midnight Reaper. Swing with dralnu, have him get blocked, sac some creatures, and draw some cards! You can also use cards like Cleaver Skaab and Tomb Tyrant as well!

And 1!

This requires us to have Tormod, the Descerator out and a full graveyard. Then, you cast some spells. As many as you can. If you have a Rooftop Storm out you should be able to get 3-4 out at least if you have a full hand. Then you cast Reaping the Graves and grab 3-4 creatures (read zombies) from the grave. This gives you 3-4 more creatures to play AND 3-4 zombie tokens. doubling the creatures earned from the grave rob spell. It's a bit convoluted, BUT this is a casual deck, and this can be a fun way to fill your board quickly!

Literally the Best Card in the Deck

Rooftop Storm. If you've played Dimir or Esper zombies, you know the value this card brings. Yes, it is a 6 mana enchantment. BUT. If you have a hand full of zombies, or a grave full of zombies and something like Havengul Lich you are now getting literally infinite value. You can cast everything you have in hand or in the graveyard for 0 mana with the right cards. That's INSANE. If you can play this card, you should.

Top Ranked	Achieved #34 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #23 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UB (Dimir) 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Zombie 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Liliana, Waker of the Dead, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie */* U
Folders	Zombie edh build, dual decks, Dimir Joy, This looks dope., Edh ideas, Tribal EDH