Karador, Ghost Chieftain
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard.
A ready-made Karador decklist
Complete 100-card Abzan deck, free to read, with prices and buy links.
How Karador decks play in EDH
Karador, Ghost Chieftain is a Abzan commander in white, black and green costing 5WBG, and its legendary creature - centaur spirit line shapes the whole deck around it. It works out of the graveyard, so self-mill and cheap recursion effectively become extra card advantage. The cards below are the ones Karador, Ghost Chieftain decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $75.84Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (2)
Card draw (2)
Removal (3)
Creatures (13)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Karador, Ghost Chieftain decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Karador, Ghost Chieftain deck?
Karador, Ghost Chieftain has a Abzan colour identity, so every card in the deck must be white, black and green or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Karador, Ghost Chieftain?
The cards played most often in Karador, Ghost Chieftain decks include Primal Witchstalker, Avacyn, Angel of Horror, Flickering Hound. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Karador, Ghost Chieftain deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $75.84 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Karador, Ghost Chieftain deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.