Zaxara v3 - TI 43 B4 - $551

Format: Commander

Commander: Zaxara, the Exemplary

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai big-mana strategy helmed by Zaxara, the Exemplary. It leverages X-cost spells to build massive Hydra boards while ramping into decisive finishers. Zaxara provides both mana acceleration and an army in a can, creating a lethal token whenever an X spell is cast. The primary win condition is an infinite mana combo between Zaxara and Freed from the Real, which generates limitless colored mana to fuel lethal table-wide drain through Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate. Alternatively, the deck can play a formidable midrange stompy game, deploying giant trampling Hydras backed by Garruk's Uprising, Herald of Secret Streams, and Finale of Devastation. With a strong suite of scalable interaction and card draw, the deck transitions smoothly from ramp to lethal threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elementalist's Palette
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hooded Hydra
  • 1 Hungering Hydra
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Icy Blast
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mass Manipulation
  • 1 Mistcutter Hydra
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Neverwinter Hydra
  • 1 Nexos
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Protean Hydra
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zaxara, the Exemplary