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Grimgrin, Corpse-Born - Zombo Combo
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Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Grimgrin enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Creature
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (sld) 1461

Commander

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Advantage

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Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (pwar) 79
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
Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (mic) 98
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
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 (lcc) 159
Midnight Reaper

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

Creature
Midnight Reaper (mic) 125
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (sld) 1663
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
Undead Augur

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

Creature
Undead Augur (mic) 130

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Combo

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Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (sld) 1114
Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of the Perished (mid) 91
Cleaver Skaab

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

Creature
Cleaver Skaab (mic) 11
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
Feral Ghoul

Menace Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, each opponent gets a number of rad counters equal to its power.

Creature
Feral Ghoul (pip) 381
Gravecrawler

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (ddq) 59
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 {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 99
Headless Rider

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Headless Rider (vow) 118
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 (cmm) 675
Necroduality

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

Enchantment
Necroduality (vow) 70
Noxious Ghoul

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Noxious Ghoul (sld) 1459
Plague Belcher

Menace When this creature 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
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
Rooftop Storm

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

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (inr) 306
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
Vengeful Dead

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Vengeful Dead (scg) 80
Warren Soultrader

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

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110

Combo

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Interaction

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (all) 22b
Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 317
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 630
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (c14) 104
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (spg) 27
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (mic) 117
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 (plst) A25-96
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18

Interaction

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (mic) 167
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 345
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 286Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 286
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mic) 170
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (mic) 171
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (mic) 172
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (mic) 173
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire back (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire back (mh3) 244
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land 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
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 381
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (mic) 177
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Path of Ancestry

This land 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
Phyrexian Tower

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

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 382
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: 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) 278
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (woc) 170
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
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) 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
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Unholy Grotto

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

Land
Unholy Grotto (sld) 1462
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (rav) 286

Land

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Lords

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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 (sld) 1458
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 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
Undead Warchief

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

Creature
Undead Warchief (hop) 44
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 (sld) 1460

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mic) 157
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (brr) 4
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clb) 857
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mic) 164
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (mh3) 297

Ramp

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Recursion

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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 (scd) 3
Reanimate

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

Sorcery
Reanimate (mkc) 137
Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, return it to its owner's hand. When this creature 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
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 (afc) 112
Zombie Apocalypse

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

Sorcery
Zombie Apocalypse (sld) 1354
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) 326

Recursion

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Tokens

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Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (ncc) 242
Diregraf Colossus

This creature 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
Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and 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.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (mic) 114
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 you control enters, 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
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
Wand of Orcus

Whenever equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies you control gain deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Equip {3}

Artifact
Wand of Orcus (afc) 28
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

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Maybeboard

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Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon. Whenever Acererak attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Acererak the Archlich (afr) 87
Triskelion

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Triskelion (dmr) 452

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