Commander

The Scarab God

Global commander stats

All Dimir commanders

1073 Wins

2711 Losses

Archetype profile

How The Scarab God plays

Top 2% for tokens, top 4% for group slug, and top 9% for aristocrats.

288 decks from 272 players. Mostly Zombie creatures.

How you deal with the table

Politics Top 33% -0.0

Group hug Below average -0.5

Stax and control Below average -3.9

Group slug Top 4% +1.1

How your creatures win

Big creatures Top 22% -0.9

Fight Top 29% +0.0

Tokens Top 2% +11.0

Tribal Top 10% Zombie, 20.4

Voltron Below average -1.0

+1/+1 counters Top 26% +1.6

Aristocrats Top 9% +5.9

Blink Below average -0.4

What your deck runs on

Spellslinger Below average -3.5

Graveyard and reanimator Top 10% +2.0

Landfall Top 31% +0.1

Artifacts Below average -2.8

Enchantress Top 25% +1.1

Mill Below average -1.5

Lifegain Top 37% -0.0

Bars show where this commander sits among every profiled commander, the tick is the middle. The number is extra cards of that archetype per deck against the average deck in the same colors; tribal shows the main creature type and its count per deck.

Measured in tracked games

Spells cast per opponent's turn 0.07 Average 0.07, from 176 games.

Tokens created per game 11.6 Average 11.7, from 176 games.

Commander damage dealt per game 1.2 Average 4.0, from 726 games.

Commanders that play like The Scarab God

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Grimgrin, Corpse-Born Aristocrats top 3% and Tokens top 7%

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver Aristocrats top 1% and Tokens top 1%

Gisa and Geralf Tribal top 4% and Graveyard and reanimator top 6%

Varina, Lich Queen Tokens top 2% and Tribal top 4%

Measured weekly from full decklists and tracked games. How we measure

Overview

Summary

The Scarab God is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 3,806 recorded Playgroup games, winning 28% of them (1073–2711) at an Elo of 1,441, ranking #4950 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 69510 damage dealt and 0.54 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 11 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is The Scarab God's win rate?

The Scarab God has a 28% win rate across 3806 recorded Playgroup games (1073 wins, 2711 losses).

How long do winning games with The Scarab God take?

Wins with The Scarab God take on average 10 turns. Total tracked play time: 20 days.

How many decks use The Scarab God?

1,517 decks list The Scarab God as their commander on Playgroup, of which 787 have played at least one recorded game.

The Scarab God Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

4950

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1441

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 69510

Average commander damage per game 5

Average poison counters given per game 5

Average kills per game 0.54

Average turn length 1 minute

No. decks for this commander 1517

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 787

No. games played with this commander 3806

Total hours played 20 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1606	josofm	7	4	57 %
2	1580	Spinynorman	9	5	56 %
3	1575	Darno	6	4	67 %
4	1564	vengashii	17	8	47 %
5	1559	musicalemergenc	5	2	40 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When The Scarab God wins, 48.58% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

48.58%

Non Combat Damage

29.99%

Combo

8.55%

Alternative

6.92%

Mill

4.07%

Commander Damage

1.76%

Poison

0.14%

Avg win turn 9.5 based on 1086 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for The Scarab God

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with The Scarab God decks that leave them out.

+4.3 pp

Top card: Undercity Sewers

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Undercity Sewers 61 games	+4.3 pp	61
2	Ledger Shredder Signature build 46 games · Signature build	+4.0 pp	46
3	Gray Merchant of Asphodel 487 games	+3.3 pp	487
4	Geralf, the Fleshwright 47 games	+3.1 pp	47
5	Toxic Deluge 310 games	+2.3 pp	310
6	Animate Dead 115 games	+2.3 pp	115
7	Entomb 162 games	+1.8 pp	162
8	Windfall 108 games	+1.7 pp	108
9	Frantic Search 144 games	+0.9 pp	144
10	Reliquary Tower 187 games	+0.8 pp	187

Show 3 more (ranks 11-13)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Dimir Signet 462 games	+0.3 pp	462
12	Consecrated Sphinx 55 games	+0.2 pp	55
13	Phyrexian Altar 165 games	+0.2 pp	165

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

The Scarab God wins 35.96% of games from position 1 and 17.04% from position 4 across tracked games.

Seat 1

35.96% n=1129

Seat 2

28.37% n=1156

Seat 3

23.4% n=829

Seat 4

17.04% n=487

Seat 5

20.73% n=82

Seat 6

20.0% n=10

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, The Scarab God wins 28.01% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

28.01% n=1678

1 mulligan

28.52% n=575

2 mulligans

26.47% n=170

3 mulligans

26.92% n=52

4 mulligans

25.0% n=12

5 mulligans

0.0% n=3

6 mulligans

0.0% n=2

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with The Scarab God 3.61/5 on average, across 2528 self-reports.

3.61 / 5

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Opponent salt

When The Scarab God wins, opponents flag the game as salty 36.4% of the time across 1104 tracked wins.

36.4 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against The Scarab God. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.