Between their synergies with the graveyard and others within their ranks, it's not hard to see why Zombies are one of the most popular tribes in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering. Rife with unparalleled reanimation capabilities, zombies have long been a staple of the game, functioning as black's primary tribe, resulting in their status as one of the most prominent tribes in Commander.
Though there are numerous zombie tribal commanders who each excel in different areas, there are certain cards that a Zombie Commander deck wouldn't want to miss out on. So without further ado, we're going to count down the best that Zombies have to offer in Commander with our strongest cards for a Zombie Tribal Commander deck!
Updated December 5, 2021 by Paul DiSalvo: As zombies are one of the most frequently appearing tribes in Magic's history, it should be no surprise that the game is chock full of powerful zombie creatures. While there are currently over five hundred zombies that are playable within the Commander format, there are a wide variety of non-creature cards that provide stellar zombie synergies. This allows zombie decks to take a variety of forms such as those that aim to win through aggressive zombie-based combat or those that aim to win through zombie-related graveyard combos. As the newly released 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Innistrad: Crimson Vow has added yet even more powerful zombies to the game, there's no better time than the present to build a zombie-tribal commander deck!
15 Undead Warchief ♊ 🃏
The utilization of "lords," creatures that provide a universal benefit to 🅺all creatures of a specific tribe, is a staple of nearly any tribal strategy. Luckily for zombie players, not only does zombie-tribal possess numerous "lords," they have access to Undead Warchief💫, one of the best lords that Commander has to offer.
The two things that many tribal players want to do the most is buff up their creatures and reduce their costs, and Undead Warchief covers both of these bases. Reducing the cost of each zombie you cast by one mana as well as providing each zombie you control with +2/+1 rather than the usual +1/+1 that most "lords" tend to provide, you'd be hard pressed to find a zombie tribal Commander deck that doesn't want an Undead Warchief in its ranks.
14 ❀Headless Rider
Recently printed in Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Headless Rider is an ef🐲fecient zombie for three mana that rewards zombie decks for using their already excellent graveyard synergies. A 3/1, when Headless RIder or another Zombie dies, its controller creates ﷽a 2/2 zombie token. As zombie decks are often filled with great sacrifice outlets, death triggers, and ways to recur zombies from the graveyard, this cards allows a player to accrue a board state while doing so.
13 ♓ Living Death
One of the biggest benefits to playing zombies in commander is that you have very strong synergies with your graveyard. Living Death is a card that takes your graveyard strategies and turns them up to eleven. Living Death is a sorcery that essentially wipes the board of all creatures, then returns all creatures form each players' graveyard to the battlefield.
While this is a universal effect, as a zombie player, most players will be hindered by the effect, while you benefit greatly, as zombie decks aꦬre often equipped with cards that fill your graveyard full of creatures.
12 Sidisi, Undead Visier 🌃
Tutorꦉs, cards that search your library for a specific card and put that card into your hand, ca♔n be found in some capacity in nearly any commander deck. While primarily a Black effect, tutoring is a very powerful effect that most commander decks try to utilize in some capacity.
Sidisi, Undead Visier is a tutor that comes in th🌸e form of a zombie. This 🦄means that like many of your other zombies, she can be sacrificed and reanimated, allowing your to reap repeated benefits from her tutoring ability.
11 Army𒈔 Of The Damned 𒆙
Ever wanted to 💛create a massive zombie horde? Well, meet Army of the Damned. For eight mana, Army of the Damned is a sorcery that 💟creates thirteen zombie tokens!
As if that wasn't enough, Army of the Damned possesses flashback, meaning it can be cast again from your graveyard, creating yet another thirteen zombie tokens. This means that with one single card, your are capable of creating twenty six zombie tokens. Must we say more?
10 ಌ Entomb And Buried Alive
Entomb and Buried Alive are two cards with similar abilities that a zombie deck would not want to be without. Tutors like the previously mentioned Sidisi, Undead Visier, Entomb and Buried Alive cheaply tutor for c♏reature cards, but rather than putting them in your hand, place the tutored cards into your graveyard.
Luckily, zombie decks have a reputation for graveyard ab🐠ilities, meaning that these tutored cards often might as 💦well be in your hand.
9 😼 Wand Of Orcus
While somewhat costly in the mana department, Wand of Orcus is a card that if left unchecked, can let a zombie deck run away with the game. A black equipment for three mana with an equip cost of three, whenever the equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies its owner controls gain deathtouch until end of turn. While this makes one's other zombies much more difficult to block, if the equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller creates that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens! This means that by simply hitting an opponent with a creature equipped with this wand, that player can instantly create an entire hoard out of thin air if the equipped creature is strong enough!
8 Rooftop ౠStorm
While not all zombie decks possess blue, those tha🎶t do have the benefit of being able to include the enchantment Rooftop Storm. Perhaps one of the strongest enchantments that can be run in a zombie-tribal Commander deck, Rooftop Storm allows its controller to pay zero mana rather than the cost of zombie spells they cast.
Yes, you read that right. Zero. Upon playing a Rooftop Storm, every zombie that you cast is effectively free, letting you dump out any and all zombies from your hand directly onto the battlefield. It is not uncommon for a zombie-tribal player to win a given game within a turn or two of playing a Rooftop Storm, so be prepared to have a ta🔯rget painted on your back as soon as you cast it, as the other players will likely band together to try to stop your ensuing zombie onslaught.
7 Relentless Dead ꧟ ꧑
Relentless Dead is an effecient two-mana black zombie that is capable of putting in incredible amounts of work over the course of a commander game. A 2/2 with menace, when it dies, its controller can pay one black mana to return it to its owner's hand. Additionally, when this zombie dies, its controller can also choose to pay X, returning a zombie from its controller's graveyard to the battlefield as long as it has a mana value of X. When paired with a sacrifice outlet, this zombie is capable of returning several cards from one's graveyard while making great use out of death-related triggers.
6 ♏ Gravecrawler 𒉰
While Gravecrawler may seem inconsequential and harmless at first glance, few zombies can match its reliability. A 2/1 for only one black mana, Gravecrawler's inability to block simply means that it will be getting used primarily for attacking and fueling sacrifice-based abilities.
When using Gravecrawler, one can be as reckless as they please, even letting it die repeatedly, as Gravecrawler's strength comes in the form of its second ability which allows you to cast it from your graveyard as long as you control another zombie. This means that no matter the circumstance of death, Gravecrawler can be repeatedly cast, allowing for extremely strong synergies with cards like Grimgrin, Corpse-Born