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The Scarab God
Legendary Creature — God · {3}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander
What The Scarab God actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
- Activated ability{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.
- Triggered ability · deathWhen The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
What a The Scarab God deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
- zombie creatures (its text counts them — every reanimated body is a 4/4 Zombie)
- creature cards in graveyards to exile — self-mill, mill and the opponents' dead creatures feed the reanimation ability
The The Scarab God deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
Best cards for The Scarab God
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Leechridden Swamp0 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
- Mirkwood Bats4 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
- Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Baleful Strix2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Plaguecrafter3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Gravecrawler1 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Champion of the Perished1 mana
- Cryptbreaker1 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Undead Augur2 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Port of Karfell0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Adaptive Automaton3 mana
- Cemetery Reaper3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Diregraf Captain3 mana
- Icon of Ancestry3 mana
- Master of Etherium3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- Desynchronization4 mana
Combos with The Scarab God
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Scarab God is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Scarab God + Mirror-Mad Phantasm264 decks
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