niche zabaz deck by deckchecker1

Format: Commander

Commander: Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Boros artifact-creature "Modular" deck piloted by Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp. The plan is to flood the board with cheap Arcbound and Modular creatures, grow them with Steel Overseer and proliferate effects, and use Zabaz to make every modular trigger put an extra counter while also serving as an instant-speed artifact sac outlet that shuffles counters around. Evasion comes from Abzan Falconer (flying for the whole counter-army), Rogue's Passage, and Zabaz's own flying activation; burst damage comes from Temur Battle Rage and Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold. The secondary win is Lux Artillery's end-step 10-damage drain once 30 counters exist across artifacts and creatures. A recursion core of Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever, Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle, Daretti, Scrap Savant, and Wake the Past keeps the deck grinding through removal. This is a classic mid-power value/combat deck: no infinite combos, wins through incremental counter-accumulation and evasive combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Crusher
  • 1 Arcbound Hybrid
  • 1 Arcbound Javelineer
  • 1 Arcbound Mouser
  • 1 Arcbound Prototype
  • 1 Arcbound Reclaimer
  • 1 Arcbound Shikari
  • 1 Arcbound Slasher
  • 1 Arcbound Slith
  • 1 Arcbound Stinger
  • 1 Arcbound Tracker
  • 1 Arcbound Whelp
  • 1 Arcbound Worker
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Envoy of the Ancestors
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Iron Apprentice
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Marketback Walker
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Reluctant Role Model
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruins of Oran-Rief
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Scrapyard Recombiner
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
  • 1 The Jolly Balloon Man
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Throne of Geth
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Towashi Guide-Bot
  • 1 Trading Post
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp