Budget scarab

Budget Scarab is a Dimir (blue-black) Commander deck built around The Scarab God as a graveyard/mill-control strategy. It aims to fill opponents’ graveyards with cards through effects like Glimpse the Unthinkable, Maddening Cacophony, Fractured Sanity, Mind Funeral, and Mind Grind, then turn those graveyards into value by reanimating creatures with The Scarab God, Geth, Lord of the Vault, Sepulchral Primordial, and Extract from Darkness.

The deck plays like a control deck early, using lots of removal and edict effects such as Plaguecrafter, Fleshbag Marauder, Hero’s Downfall, Pongify, and sweepers like Languish and Crux of Fate to keep the board clear. Its key synergies come from mill + reanimation + death triggers, especially with cards like Syr Konrad, the Grim and Consuming Aberration, which reward graveyard filling and creature deaths.

It usually wins by grinding out value, stealing or reanimating the best creatures from