The Scarab God

The Scarab God Commander Deck

This deck can be led by either The Scarab God or Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, two commanders that represent different angles of the same Zombie tribal strategy. The Scarab God builds a growing army by reanimating creatures from any graveyard as 4/4 black Zombie tokens and draining opponents of life each upkeep based on how many Zombies you control, while Grimgrin serves as both an aggressive sacrifice outlet and the lynchpin of the deck's primary combo. The deck supports whichever commander is at the helm with lords and anthem effects that buff the horde, death triggers that generate card advantage, and token doublers that multiply reanimation into multiple threats, with the ultimate win condition being an infinite loop using Gravecrawler and Rooftop Storm alongside Grimgrin to generate unlimited sacrifice triggers, converting into lethal damage through drain effects or an overwhelming Zombie army.

Decklist

• Accursed Duneyard
• Arcane Signet
• Black Market Connections
• Bladestitched Skaab
• Bojuka Bog
• Bontu's Monument
• Bribery
• Calculating Lich
• Castle Locthwain
• Cemetery Reaper
• Command Tower
• Commence the Endgame
• Corpse Augur
• Counterspell
• Crawl from the Cellar
• Crowded Crypt
• Cryptbreaker
• Desert of the Glorified
• Desert of the Mindful
• Dimir Signet
• Dread Return
• Dread Summons
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Drowned Catacomb
• Eternal Skylord
• Evacuation
• Evolving Wilds
• Exotic Orchard
• Fetid Pools
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Forgotten Creation
• Gate to the Afterlife
• Gempalm Polluter
• Ghoulcaller Gisa
• Gleaming Overseer
• God-Pharaoh's Gift
• Gorex, the Tombshell
• Grave Titan
• Gravecrawler
• Grim Haruspex
• Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 5× Island
• Lazotep Chancellor
• Liliana, Death's Majesty
• Lord of the Accursed
• Lost Monarch of Ifnir
• Maskwood Nexus
• Meathook Massacre II
• Midnight Reaper
• Mortuary Mire
• Myriad Landscape
• Necroduality
• Never/Return
• Notion Thief
• Noxious Ghoul
• Path of Ancestry
• Personal Tutor
• Plague Belcher
• Prophet of the Scarab
• Pull from Tomorrow
• Read the Bones
• Rhet-Tomb Mystic
• Rooftop Storm
• Rot Hulk
• Sandman's Quicksand
• Siege Zombie
• Sign in Blood
• Sink into Stupor
• Sunken Hollow
• 8× Swamp
• Syncopate
• Taborax, Hope's Demise
• Talisman of Dominance
• Temple of Deceit
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Tragic Slip
• Twisted Abomination
• Undead Augur
• Underground River
• Unholy Grotto
• Vindictive Lich
• Wake the Dead
• War Room
• Witch's Cauldron
• Zombie Master
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Jet Medallion
• Strategic Betrayal