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{"ops":[{"insert":"The basic idea is to use Merieke Ri Berit and other theft effects to steal my opponents' creatures, then turn those creatures into part of my Zombie army and power them up with Zombie lords. I want the deck to feel like I'm literally taking my opponents' creatures and adding them to my undead horde.\n"}]}
{"ops":[{"insert":"I'm struggling with deck identity. It struggles where it always feels like a dead draw and doesn't know what to do next. I either have a lot of Lords and no zombies or I stole a few things but no support or adequate protection/interaction. I want to even out between Zombie support and the theft identity or lean into either more.\n"}]}

Commander

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Merieke Ri Berit
Merieke Ri Berit doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Merieke Ri Berit. When Merieke Ri Berit leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Legendary Creature - Human
Merieke Ri Berit (ice) 297

Commander

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Anthem

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Conspiracy
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Conspiracy (acr) 88
Death Baron
Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Death Baron (m19) 90
Diregraf Captain
Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Diregraf Captain (scd) 224
Lord of the Accursed
Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
,
: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.
Creature - Zombie
Lord of the Accursed (gnt) 33

Anthem

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Copy

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Illusionist's Bracers
Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 392

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Drain

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Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (tle) 160
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (plst) C17-99
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Vengeful Dead
Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Zombie
Vengeful Dead (scd) 117

Drain

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Draw

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Cryptbreaker
,
, 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 - Zombie
Cryptbreaker (emn) 86
Grim Haruspex
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Grim Haruspex (spg) 152
Kindred Discovery
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.
Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (clb) 565
Midnight Reaper
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Midnight Reaper (grn) 77
Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (soc) 224
Undead Augur
Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Undead Augur (h1r) 15
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, if it didn't have decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a Zombie. If you do, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Zombie
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (sld) 2285

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (ice) 351
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (tsr) 406
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (apc) 140
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 234
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (pip) 495
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (otc) 295
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 436
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (blc) 307
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (rtr) 241
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (sld) 1383
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mid) 270
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (vow) 271
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (vow) 409
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (pip) 269
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 437
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
: Add
.
,
: Untap target legendary permanent.
Legendary Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 603
Otawara, Soaring City
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 503
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (vow) 268
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (vow) 269
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 438
Raffine's Tower
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Swamp
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Seachrome Coast
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Seachrome Coast (blc) 328
Sunken Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sunken Ruins (fic) 430
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (pana) 269
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mid) 272
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (vow) 272
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (6ed) 330
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (grn) 259

Land

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (mrd) 199
Reconnaissance
: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)
Enchantment
Reconnaissance (plst) EXO-17

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 653
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (chr) 92
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (sld) 287
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (drk) 102
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (2ed) 270
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (sld) 1057
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
Undead Warchief
Zombie spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.
Creature - Zombie
Undead Warchief (scg) 78

Ramp

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Recursion

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Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 314
Gravecrawler
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Creature - Zombie
Gravecrawler (tdc) 93
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (cm2) 68
Lord of the Undead
Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1.
,
: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie
Lord of the Undead (plst) PLS-44
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.
: 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.
Legendary Creature - God
The Scarab God (cmm) 590

Recursion

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Removal

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Agent of Treachery
When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.
Creature - Human Rogue
Agent of Treachery (sld) 2005
Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 313
Dictate of Erebos
Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (jou) 65
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (tsr) 375
Gilded Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.
Creature - Drake
Gilded Drake (usg) 76
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (8ed) 137
Hostage Taker
When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Creature - Human Pirate
Hostage Taker (otc) 231
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (acr) 81
Sower of Temptation
Flying
When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
Creature - Wizard Faerie
Sower of Temptation (woc) 111
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (2ed) 41
Treachery
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, untap up to five lands.
You control enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Treachery (uds) 50

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Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Artifact
Altar of Dementia (tmp) 276
Viscera Seer
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Viscera Seer (m11) 120
Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (tdc) 202

Sac Outlet

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Theft

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Blatant Thievery
For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.
Sorcery
Blatant Thievery (plst) E02-8
Bribery
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Sorcery
Bribery (cmm) 77

Theft

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Tokens

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Arcane Adaptation
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Arcane Adaptation (plst) XLN-46
Headless Rider
Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Zombie
Headless Rider (dbl) 385
Maskwood Nexus
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
,
: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (drc) 132

Tokens

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 696
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426

Tutor

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Untap

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Aphetto Alchemist
: Untap target artifact or creature.
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Aphetto Alchemist (plst) ONS-64
Freed from the Real
Enchant creature
: Tap enchanted creature.
: Untap enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Freed from the Real (plst) SOK-38
Ioreth of the Healing House
: Untap another target permanent.
: Untap two other target legendary creatures.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Ioreth of the Healing House (ltr) 507
Kelpie Guide
: Untap another target permanent you control.
: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.
Creature - Beast
Kelpie Guide (stx) 45
Magewright's Stone
,
: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with
in its cost.
Artifact
Magewright's Stone (rvr) 462
Pemmin's Aura
Enchant creature
: Untap enchanted creature.
: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn.
: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.
Enchantment - Aura
Pemmin's Aura (plst) SCG-45
Thousand-Year Elixir
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
,
: Untap target creature.
Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271
Vizier of Tumbling Sands
: Untap another target permanent.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.
Creature - Human Cleric
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

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Deck Info

Deck stats

6 pips - 6 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
31 pips - 22 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
43 pips - 31 cards
26 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 9 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Why waste precious mana summoning my own creatures when my opponents have so thoughtfully provided an army for me? I am Merieke Ri Berit, and I have no interest in building what others have already built so beautifully.\nI take their creatures and make them mine. With Freed from the Real, Pemmin’s Aura, Ioreth, and Thousand-Year Elixir, I can untap my stolen servants and gather more with every passing turn. Death Baron and Lord of the Accursed then give these unwilling recruits a new purpose, turning my enemy’s creatures into my unwilling soldiers in my growing undead horde.\nWilhelt, Kindred Discovery, Skullclamp, and my sacrifice outlets ensure that even death serves me.\nThis is theft tribal disguised as necromancy. Every opponent brings their own army to the table. I merely give those creatures a better commander.\n"}]}
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