The Scarab God - 3UB
Legendary Creature - God
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you Scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
2UB: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next upkeep.
5/5
Another versatile God! You can of course play him in a zombie deck, but you can also play him like a red-less Sedris, the Traitor King, except you can reanimate creature from ANY graveyard, i.e., you can exile your opponent's army and use it against him/her. Milling is never lacking in DImir, and I love how The Scarab God can support milling without having milling himself!
I find his first ability interestingly synergistic with self-mill, which then feeds his second. I wonder how many Needle Specter-type things would fit in this deck.
I run one in some of my decks, for the same reason I run Phyrexian Arena, depending on which I get first. 40 starting life is quite an advantage, in mid-late game I can sac it for other reasons.
Oh reminder if a vigor/kozilek,Butcher of truth esc cards ends up in the grave you can trigger that ability while the ability is on the stack and steal it and get rid of it before it gets shuffled in the library.
Oh reminder if a vigor/kozilek,Butcher of truth esc cards ends up in the grave you can trigger that ability while the ability is on the stack and steal it and get rid of it before it gets shuffled in the library.
Yep, I included the Eldrazis in the list yesterday for that reason. Entomb is so much nice for this combo.
I just see DC chewing up too much life, even for this format. Arena is only taking me for one life at a time.
I'm a big fan of Bob in EDH, even after flipping It That Betrays more than once. 30-40% of your deck hits you for 0. It's even better when you have an upkeep scry trigger in the command zone. If your life total is in any real danger you just scry away the painful stuff.
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Legendary Creature - God
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you Scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
2UB: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next upkeep.
5/5
Another versatile God! You can of course play him in a zombie deck, but you can also play him like a red-less Sedris, the Traitor King, except you can reanimate creature from ANY graveyard, i.e., you can exile your opponent's army and use it against him/her. Milling is never lacking in DImir, and I love how The Scarab God can support milling without having milling himself!
Synergies/Combos:
1) Mindcrank with upkeep damage, also Duskmantle Guildmage to form a trio.
2) Paradox Haze with upkeep trigger
3) Tombstone Stairwell (assuming high number of creatures)
4) Misthollow Griffin and Eternal Scourge for persistent zombie making.
5) Entomb + reanimate Eldrazi at instant speed.
6) Essence Harvest/Rite of Consumption and a big creature, best with a 40+ Consuming Aberration.
7) Phenax, God of Deception and zombie mill.
8) Transmute creatures, such as Dimir Infiltrator, fetch the cards you need and eternalize them. Same with creatures which "die on their own like Mulldrifter and Nimble Obstructionist.
9?) Traumatize + Fraying Sanity
List waiting to grow:
1 Misthollow Griffin
1 Eternal Scourge
Zombies (will move around)
1 Corpse Harvester
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Gravecrawler
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Noxious Ghoul
1 Prized Amalgam
1 Rooftop Storm
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1 Unbreathing Horde
1 Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie Tokens
1 Army of the Damned
1 Cryptbreaker
1 Diregraf Colossus
1 Empty the Pits
1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
1 Grave Titan
1 Liliana's Mastery
1 Tombstone Stairwell
Zombie Pump
1 Cemetery Reaper
1 Death Baron
1 Diregraf Captain
1 Lord of the Accursed
1 Lord of the Undead
1 Undead Warchief
1 Wonder
1 Zombie Master
Counters
1 Draining Whelk
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Nimble Obstructionist
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
Eldrazis!
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
1 Void Winnower
Beat Sticks
1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Reanimation
1 Animate Dead
1 Dance of the Dead
1 Dread Return
1 Hour of Eternity
1 Gisa and Geralf
1 God-Pharaoh's Gift
1 Gravespawn Sovereign
1 Havengul Lich
1 Living Death
1 Necromancy
1 Puppeteer Clique
1 Reanimate
1 Relentless Dead
1 Altar of Dementia
1 Altar of the Brood
1 Consuming Aberration
1 Dread Summons
1 Duskmantle Guildmage
1 Fraying Sanity
1 Jace's Erasure
1 Mesmeric Orb
1 Mind Grind
1 Mindcrank
1 Traumatize
1 Tunnel Vision
Draw
1 Graveborn Muse
1 Mulldrifter
1 Deep Analysis
Discard
1 Breathstealer's Crypt
1 Dire Undercurrents
Looter
1 Compulsion
1 Merfolk Looter
1 Unfulfilled Desires
Wheel
1 Tolarian Wind
1 Whispering Madness
1 Windfall
Discard Trigger
1 Archfiend of Ifnir
1 Drake Haven
1 Waste Not
Steal Spell
1 Chancellor of the Spires
1 Diluvian Primordial
1 Memory Plunder
1 Psychic Intrusion
1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
Flashback
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Torrential Gearhulk
Graveyard Fetch
1 Buried Alive
1 Entomb
1 Forbidden Alchemy
1 Intuition
1 Life's Finale
1 Strategic Planning
Damage/Life Loss
1 Bloodchief Ascension
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Plague Belcher
1 Shepherd of Rot
1 Vengeful Dead
Graveyard Copy
1 Dimir Doppelganger
1 Havengul Lich
1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
1 Altar of Dementia
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
1 High Market
1 Phyrexian Altar
1 Phyrexian Tower
Sac Too
1 Dictate of Erebos
1 Grave Pact
Transmute
1 Clutch of the Undercity
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Dimir Machinations
1 Dizzy Spell
1 Drift of Phantasms
1 Ethereal Usher
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Netherborn Phalanx
1 Perplex
1 Shred Memory
1 Tolaria West
Multi-Purpose
1 Extract from Darkness
1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
1 Lich Lord of Unx
1 Oracle of Dust
1 Undead Alchemist
1 Seer of the Last Tomorrow
1 Torment of Scarabs
1 Tragic Lesson
Ability Abuse
1 Paradox Haze
1 Rings of Brighthearth
1 Strionic Resonator
1 Training Grounds
1 Wound Reflection
Potential Wincon
1 Essence Harvest
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Mirror-Mad Phantasm
1 Phenax, God of Deception
1 Rite of Consumption
1 Torment of Hailfire
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
I would also use, Rings of Brighthearth and Training Grounds, for extra millage on his activated ability.
I am curious what would happen with Consuming Aberration if it was reanimated with the Scarab God's ability.
I would probably go high creatures and Tombstone Stairwell & Dire Undercurrents
Maybe some Wound Reflections
Great ideas! The upkeep ability of Scarab is truly wonderful with Haze and Tombstone.
EDIT: Also added Eldrazis.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
Dizzy Spell to find it.
Mesmeric Orb starts some milling.
Geth
Wrex
Memory Plunder
Psychic Intrusion
Extract from Darkness
Whispering Madness
Mind Grind
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
Graveyard is trove!
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
4/4 rainbow efreet
pure value.
I am definitely building this guy.
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Edric Spy and die
Azami the lady of the draw
Naya Zoo
Past decks
Orloro
sharuum the hegemond
Mono black control
splinter twin
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
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Edric Spy and die
Azami the lady of the draw
Naya Zoo
Past decks
Orloro
sharuum the hegemond
Mono black control
splinter twin
Why would you not if you have one?
I run one in some of my decks, for the same reason I run Phyrexian Arena, depending on which I get first. 40 starting life is quite an advantage, in mid-late game I can sac it for other reasons.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
Oh reminder if a vigor/kozilek,Butcher of truth esc cards ends up in the grave you can trigger that ability while the ability is on the stack and steal it and get rid of it before it gets shuffled in the library.
Yep, I included the Eldrazis in the list yesterday for that reason. Entomb is so much nice for this combo.
New idea, Transmute creatures, get the card you want then reanimate them with Scarab. Example: Dimir House Guard and Dimir Infiltrator.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
I can get behind Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre but the rest of the Eldrazi you have chosen seem kinda weak to me when being reanimated via TSG.
Void Winnower and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur are desperately needed in this list
I will post my list later once it's more finished and I have time
BChainer, Dementia Master(Big Mana/Reanimator)
BRRakdos, The Showstopper (Mass Life Loss/Ramp)
BUThe Scarab God (Zombie Tribal/Control)
BWKarlov of the Ghost Council (Life Gain)
BGJarad, Golgari Lich Lord (Stompy/Dredge)
BRGProssh, Skyraider of Kher (Tokens/Non-infinite Combo)
Thank you, currently I'm just adding cards and categorize them as references so people can benefit from it.
I think transmute creatures like Dimir Infiltrator would be wonderful as early fetch and late game offense, smooth out the curve.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
Carrion Feeder
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
Ashnod's Altar
are all free, instant-speed sacs.
My thought is to go recursion with Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos. I think the deck is weak to Gisela and GY hate, but :laugh2:.
Do we have Waste not on the list? It combos with mindcrank
I don't know, Mindcrank is milling via damage, Waste Not is triggered by discard effect.
EDIT: Added the awesome Nimble Obstructionist. Eternity awaits her!
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs