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Upgrading the Scarab
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Est deck cost: $204.30
Salt sum: 28.22
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Commander

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Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Creature
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1

Commander

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ETB Matters

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Binding Mummy

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, you may tap target artifact or creature.

Creature
Binding Mummy (drc) 63
Corpse Knight

Whenever another creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Corpse Knight (drc) 50
Renewed Solidarity

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+0. At the beginning of your end step, for each token you control of the chosen type that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.

Enchantment
Renewed Solidarity (drc) 7
Wayward Servant

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Wayward Servant (drc) 121

ETB Matters

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Removal

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Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (drc) 89

Removal

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (drc) 125
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (drc) 134
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57

Artifact

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Extra Discard

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Cryptbreaker

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Cryptbreaker (drc) 41
Forgotten Creation

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

Creature
Forgotten Creation (drc) 77
Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card. −2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. −8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Planeswalker
Liliana Vess (gvl) 32
Rhet-Tomb Mystic

Flying Each creature card in your hand has cycling {1}{U}. ({1}{U}, Discard that card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Rhet-Tomb Mystic (drc) 10
Skirge Familiar

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

Creature
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276

Extra Discard

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Zombies Matter

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Gleaming Overseer

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Zombie tokens you control have hexproof and menace.

Creature
Gleaming Overseer (drc) 116
Lost Monarch of Ifnir

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) Other Zombies you control have afflict 3. At the beginning of your second main phase, if a player was dealt combat damage by a Zombie this turn, mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lost Monarch of Ifnir (drc) 11
Prophet of the Scarab

Vigilance When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of Zombies you control or the number of Zombie cards in your graveyard, whichever is greater.

Creature
Prophet of the Scarab (drc) 9
Rot Hulk

Menace When this creature enters, return up to X target Zombie cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of opponents you have.

Creature
Rot Hulk (drc) 98
The Scarab 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. {2}{U}{B}: 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 end step.

Creature
The Scarab God (drc) 120
Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature
Zombie Master (drc) 46

Zombies Matter

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Cycling Bait

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Alabaster Host Intercessor

When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Alabaster Host Intercessor (mom) 3
Angel of the Ruins

Flying When this creature enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Angel of the Ruins (blc) 134
Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (drc) 86
Architects of Will

When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. Cycling {U/B} ({U/B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature Artifact
Architects of Will (plst) ARB-17
Curator of Mysteries

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
Daggermaw Megalodon

Vigilance Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Daggermaw Megalodon (dsk) 48
Eldrazi Ravager

Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Sacrifice two Eldrazi: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Eldrazi Ravager (mh3) 5
Eternal Dragon

Flying {3}{W}{W}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Eternal Dragon (afc) 66
Flourishing Fox

Whenever you cycle another card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Flourishing Fox (iko) 13
Gempalm Polluter

Cycling {B}{B} ({B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

Creature
Gempalm Polluter (drc) 93
Gloomfang Mauler

Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Backup 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Menace

Creature
Gloomfang Mauler (mom) 108
Horror of the Broken Lands

Whenever you cycle or discard another card, this creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Horror of the Broken Lands (a25) 93
Monstrosity of the Lake

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay {5}. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Monstrosity of the Lake (ltc) 22
Scion of Darkness

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Scion of Darkness (j25) 486
Scrounging Skyray

Flying Whenever you discard one or more cards, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Scrounging Skyray (dft) 60
Timeless Dragon

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Dragon (drc) 67
Undead Gladiator

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Undead Gladiator (dmr) 105
Valiant Rescuer

Whenever you cycle another card for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Valiant Rescuer (iko) 36
Waxen Shapethief

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of an artifact or creature you control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Waxen Shapethief (dft) 74

Cycling Bait

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Finisher

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Herald of the Forgotten

Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it, return any number of target permanent cards with cycling abilities from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Herald of the Forgotten (c20) 27
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183

Finisher

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Cycling Matters

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Astral Drift

Whenever you cycle this card or cycle another card while this enchantment is on the battlefield, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Astral Drift (c20) 76
Astral Slide

Whenever a player cycles a card, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Astral Slide (ons) 4
Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (spg) 87
Cryptcaller Chariot

Menace Whenever you discard one or more cards, create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Crew 2

Artifact
Cryptcaller Chariot (dft) 306
Drake Haven

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Drake Haven (c20) 110
Dying to Serve

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Dying to Serve (vow) 109
Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
Feast of Sanity

Whenever you discard a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Feast of Sanity (mh2) 84
Lazotep Chancellor

Whenever you discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Creature
Lazotep Chancellor (drc) 117
Monument to Endurance

Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Draw a card. • Create a Treasure token. • Each opponent loses 3 life.

Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 237
Mystic Redaction

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment
Mystic Redaction (mh2) 53
New Perspectives

When this enchantment enters, draw three cards. As long as you have seven or more cards in hand, you may pay {0} rather than pay cycling costs.

Enchantment
New Perspectives (c20) 119
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (plst) IKO-61
Ruthless Sniper

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Ruthless Sniper (akh) 105
Withering Hex

Enchant creature Whenever a player cycles a card, put a plague counter on this Aura. Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on this Aura.

Enchantment
Withering Hex (ons) 181

Cycling Matters

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Instant

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (drc) 70
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (drc) 74

Instant

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Draw

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Ill-Gotten Gains

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Sorcery
Ill-Gotten Gains (cns) 114
Whispering Madness

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Whispering Madness (c16) 229
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

Draw

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Land

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Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (drc) 148
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cc2) 8
Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 268
Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (inr) 276
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (drc) 156
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (drc) 159
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (drc) 161
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (inr) 291
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (drc) 162
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (inr) 288
Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (soi) 278
Shattered Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (inr) 283
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Snowfield Sinkhole

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Snowfield Sinkhole (clb) 915
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inr) 292
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (dsc) 308
Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (drc) 178

Land

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Deck Info

Deck stats

18 pips - 14 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
25 pips - 21 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
41 pips - 30 cards
27 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
1 pip - 1 card0
3 mana - 2 cards
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