New Untitled Deck by ghost_lit

Format: Commander

Commander: Zur, Eternal Schemer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

Zur, Eternal Schemer commands an Esper enchantress control and combo deck that leverages powerful enchantments for defense, card advantage, and game-ending locks. The deck accelerates through low-cost mana rocks, cost reducers like Inquisitive Glimmer, and Serra's Sanctum, quickly establishing early draw engines such as Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and Trouble in Pairs. Zur provides a formidable defensive core by passively granting all enchantment creatures hexproof, lifelink, and deathtouch, while turning non-Aura enchantments into formidable combat threats. The primary win conditions revolve around oppressive hard locks and sudden lethal combos. Combining Solemnity with Decree of Silence completely shuts down opponents by countering every spell they cast without ever accumulating depletion counters. Alternatively, casting Fractured Identity on Phage the Untouchable forces each opponent to create a Phage token, triggering immediate game loss for the entire table. Backed by Replenish recursion and free countermagic, the deck grinds out opponents before decisively sealing the game.

Decklist (94 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Demon of Fate's Design
  • 1 Demonic Pact
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Estrid's Invocation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Impostor Syndrome
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Inquisitive Glimmer
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Reflection
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
  • 1 Phage the Untouchable
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valkyrie's Call
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer