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Varina, Maximum Salty Zombies
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $1094.89
Salt Sum: 41.58
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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 (2x2) 291
1

Card draw

Quantity: 4Price: $99.96
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
1
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) 52
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (plst) PCY-45
1
Treacherous Greed

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature that dealt damage this turn. Draw three cards. Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Instant
Treacherous Greed (mkm) 237
1

Counters

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (jvc) 24
1
Deny the Witch

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures you control.

Instant
Deny the Witch (40k) 116
1
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (cmm) 108
1
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (sta) 74
1

Creature

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Champion of the Perished

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

Creature
Champion of the Perished (scd) 71
1
Cleaver Skaab

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice another Zombie: Create two tokens that are copies of the sacrificed creature.

Creature
Cleaver Skaab (mic) 49
1
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 (emn) 86
1
Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch.

Creature
Death Baron (mic) 111
1
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 (scd) 224
1
Fallen Shinobi

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{B} ({2}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever Fallen Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top two cards of their library. Until end of turn, you may play those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Fallen Shinobi (ncc) 338
1
Geralf, the Fleshwright

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token. Whenever a Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Creature
Geralf, the Fleshwright (otj) 50
1
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
1
Gisa and Geralf

When Gisa and Geralf enters the battlefield, 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
1
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
1
Gleaming Overseer

When Gleaming Overseer enters the battlefield, 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 (scd) 229
1
Gravecrawler

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

Creature
Gravecrawler (j22) 423
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 355
1
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
1
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
1
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 (scd) 88
1
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 (plst) PLS-44
1
Loyal Subordinate

Menace Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Loyal Subordinate (cmm) 172
1
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 (puma) U11
1
Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant

Hexproof from artifacts, creatures, and enchantments When Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant enters the battlefield, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each creature that died this turn. When Nevinyrral dies, you may pay {1}. When you do, destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Creature
Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant (cmr) 287
1
Ratadrabik of Urborg

Vigilance, ward {2} Other Zombies you control have vigilance. Whenever another legendary creature you control dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's not legendary and it's a 2/2 black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Creature
Ratadrabik of Urborg (dmu) 353
1
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 331
1
Shepherd of Rot

{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

Creature
Shepherd of Rot (ons) 168
1
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 (2xm) 216
1
Undead Warchief

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

Creature
Undead Warchief (plst) TSB-52
1
Vindictive Lich

When Vindictive Lich dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player. • Target opponent sacrifices a creature. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Target opponent loses 5 life.

Creature
Vindictive Lich (sld) 235
1
Wayward Servant

Whenever another Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Wayward Servant (akh) 208
1
Wight of Precinct Six

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (jmp) 287
1
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
1
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 (3ed) 138
1

Enchantment

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Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (hop) 28
1
Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Enchantment
Necroduality (dbl) 337
1
Rooftop Storm

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

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (mic) 103
1

Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 377
1
Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (moc) 390
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (40k) 268
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (40k) 272
1
Cryptic Spires

As you create your deck, circle two of the colors below. Cryptic Spires enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of either of the circled colors.

Land
Cryptic Spires (2x2) 332
1
Darkslick Shores

Darkslick Shores enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 372
1
Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped. When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (sld) 416
2
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (neo) 295
1
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 437
1
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (bbd) 83
1
Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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 (cmm) 661
1
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (uma) 248
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (sld) 415
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (bro) 279
1
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile Plaza of Heroes: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
1
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (moc) 420
1
Raffine's Tower

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

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 292
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (40k) 291
1
Scoured Barrens

Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield tapped. When Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Scoured Barrens (iko) 254
1
Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (zne) 16
1
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Shadowy Backstreet enters the battlefield tapped. When Shadowy Backstreet enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
1
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (40k) 295
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 104
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 105
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 417
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 65
1
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 416
1
Tranquil Cove

Tranquil Cove enters the battlefield tapped. When Tranquil Cove enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (frf) 174
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 405
1
Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Windbrisk Heights enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Land
Windbrisk Heights (sld) 436
1

Planeswalker

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Liliana, Untouched by Death

+1: Mill three cards. If at least one Zombie card is milled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control. −3: You may cast Zombie spells from your graveyard this turn.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Untouched by Death (scd) 84
1

Ramp / Reduce

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dmc) 177
1
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
1
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (40k) 232
1
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmm) 655
1
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
1
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (40k) 239
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
1
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 396
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
1

Recursion

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Portal to Phyrexia

When Portal to Phyrexia enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices three creatures. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Portal to Phyrexia (bro) 365
1
Rise of the Dark Realms

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

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (sld) 233
1
Zombie Apocalypse

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

Sorcery
Zombie Apocalypse (scd) 121
1

Token makers

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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 (j22) 410
1

Wipes / Destruction

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (moc) 172
1
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 (mh2) 80
1
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 13
1
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
1
Legions to Ashes

Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all tokens that player controls with the same name as that permanent.

Sorcery
Legions to Ashes (bro) 215
1
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (40k) 225
1
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (2x2) 280
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (40k) 190
1

Maybes

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (40k) 191
1
Agatha's Soul Cauldron

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control. Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron. {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Artifact
Agatha's Soul Cauldron (woe) 242
1
Arcane Adaptation

As Arcane Adaptation enters the battlefield, 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 (xln) 46
1
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (cmm) 944
1
Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
1
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
1
Destroy Evil

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater. • Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Destroy Evil (dmu) 17
1
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 (pwar) 16s
1
Grave Titan

Deathtouch Whenever Grave Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature
Grave Titan (sld) 223
1
Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Sorcery
Macabre Waltz (rvr) 82
1
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 331
1
The Stasis Coffin

{2}, {T}, Exile The Stasis Coffin: You gain protection from everything until your next turn.

Artifact
The Stasis Coffin (bro) 245
1
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Play many zombies, get to some of the spicy enchantments, play more zombies, steam roll opponents. Pretty simple, couple of cool combo-ish pieces. If the deck plays out well, it is the insta-hate from other players deck.\n"}]}
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