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Dead by Dawn!
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Est deck cost: $801.15
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Commander

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Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life. {2}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Varina, Lich Queen (sld) 1355

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Artifact

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mic) 157
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (moc) 360
Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Artifact
Library of Leng (5ed) 387
Patchwork Banner

As Patchwork Banner enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c18) 222
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346

Artifact

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Creature

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Archghoul of Thraben

Whenever Archghoul of Thraben or another Zombie you control dies, look at the top card of your library. If it's a Zombie card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature
Archghoul of Thraben (vow) 93
Bladestitched Skaab

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

Creature
Bladestitched Skaab (mid) 212
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 (c19) 15
Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Cemetery Reaper (mic) 108
Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Perished.

Creature
Champion of the Perished (mid) 91
Corpse Knight

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

Creature
Corpse Knight (m20) 206
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
Death Baron (fdn) 521
Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Diregraf Captain (mic) 148
Diregraf Colossus

Diregraf Colossus enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Diregraf Colossus (mic) 112
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

Zombies you control have flying. {U}, {T}, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Creature
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher (vow) 61
Gisa and Geralf

When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.

Creature
Gisa and Geralf (mic) 150
Gisa, the Hellraiser

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Gisa, the Hellraiser (otj) 89
God-Eternal Oketra

Double strike Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance. When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Oketra (war) 16
Gravecrawler

Gravecrawler can't block. You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (j22) 423
Hordewing Skaab

Flying Other Zombies you control have flying. Whenever one or more Zombies you control deal combat damage to one or more of your opponents, you may draw cards equal to the number of opponents dealt damage this way. If you do, discard that many cards.

Creature
Hordewing Skaab (mic) 15
Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Accursed (gn2) 32
Lord of the Undead

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lord of the Undead (sld) 1046
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (rvr) 86
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (uma) 106
Plague Belcher

Menace When Plague Belcher enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Plague Belcher (akh) 104
Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When Relentless Dead dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, return it to its owner's hand. When Relentless Dead dies, you may pay {X}. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Relentless Dead (soi) 131
Risen Executioner

Risen Executioner can't block. Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. You may cast Risen Executioner from your graveyard if you pay {1} more to cast it for each other creature card in your graveyard.

Creature
Risen Executioner (dtk) 116
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 (cmm) 353
Tomb Tyrant

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return a Zombie creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn and only if there are at least three Zombie creature cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Tomb Tyrant (mic) 23
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155
Undead Augur

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (mh1) 112
Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature
Undead Warchief (hop) 44
Vengeful Dead

Whenever Vengeful Dead or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Vengeful Dead (scd) 117
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110
Wayward Servant

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

Creature
Wayward Servant (akh) 208
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.

Creature
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (mic) 2
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 (mb2) 188
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.) {T}: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord (fdn) 77

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Enchantment

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Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (akh) 2
Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (mic) 116
Knowledge Is Power

Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Enchantment
Knowledge Is Power (mkc) 42
Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie you control enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Enchantment
Necroduality (vow) 70
Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (mic) 103
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 9

Enchantment

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Instant

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Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Pack's Disdain

Choose a creature type. Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each permanent of the chosen type you control.

Instant
Pack's Disdain (mor) 73
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 (2x2) 23
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (c18) 232
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mic) 170
Contaminated Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Contaminated Landscape: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Contaminated Landscape (mh3) 218
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Field of the Dead

Field of the Dead enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever Field of the Dead or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (sld) 1356
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As Godless Shrine enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 270
Isolated Chapel

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

Land
Isolated Chapel (otc) 301
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (bbd) 83
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (mic) 178
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mid) 269
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) Raffine's Tower enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmr) 488
Shattered Sanctum

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

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (mic) 182
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 273
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (mic) 183
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
Unholy Grotto

{T}: Add {C}. {B}, {T}: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Unholy Grotto (ons) 327
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254
Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmr) 360
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259

Land

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Sorcery

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Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (tsr) 106
Empty the Laboratory

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Empty the Laboratory (mic) 14
From Under the Floorboards

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sorcery
From Under the Floorboards (soi) 111
Haunting Voyage

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead. Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (khm) 98
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (uma) 110
Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Vanquish the Horde (sld) 1353
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278
Zombie Apocalypse

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

Sorcery
Zombie Apocalypse (sld) 1354

Sorcery

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Deck Info

Deck stats

13 pips - 11 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
18 pips - 16 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
60 pips - 42 cards
33 mana - 30 cards
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0 mana - 7 cards
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10 mana - 9 cards
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