Combo hell by SirPenguin

Format: Commander

Commander: Zaxara, the Exemplary

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Zaxara, the Exemplary is an accelerant and a spare combo piece rather than a strict requirement. The deck's primary plan is to use BUG tutors to assemble the two-card Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle kill, with a backup of Zaxara plus Freed from the Real to generate infinite mana and cast Enter the Infinite into the same Oracle finish. Secondary channels are creature/token loops-Scurry Oak with Ivy Lane Denizen, Gravecrawler with Phyrexian Altar, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl with Nim Deathmantle-that end through Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat or Mirkwood Bats. There is no double-faced commander; Doctor Doom acts as a hidden value-win option that can convert a near-empty library into a win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bring to Light
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doctor Doom
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enter the Infinite
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grand Architect
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Herd Baloth
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Illicit Shipment
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pili-Pala
  • 1 Pine Barrens
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Creation of Avacyn
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zaxara, the Exemplary
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat