Anakin by user5113536

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Helmsmasher

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Voltron and board-control strategy commanded by Zurgo Helmsmasher. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana to cast Zurgo on Turn 4, immediately attacking with his 7-power hasty body. Because Zurgo possesses indestructible during your turn, the deck leverages symmetric damage-based board wipes such as Blasphemous Act, Chandra's Ignition, and Nibelheim Aflame to wipe opposing blockers while leaving Zurgo unharmed to press combat damage. High-impact Equipment like Blackblade Reforged and Lizard Blades accelerate commander damage kills, while combat tricks like Hatred, Boros Charm, and Tainted Strike enable surprise one-shot eliminations. The deck controls the tempo of the table using efficient exile removal like Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile, while protecting Zurgo across turn cycles with Swiftfoot Boots and Mother of Runes. It aims to systematically eliminate all three opponents through focused combat pressure by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 All-Out Assault
  • 1 Ankle Shanker
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brutal Hordechief
  • 1 Catharsis
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cleansing Wildfire
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Emptiness
  • 1 Fighter Class
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Gaze of Pain
  • 1 Geomancer's Gambit
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Grappling Hook
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Hatred
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Hunted Bonebrute
  • 1 Hunted Lammasu
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
  • 1 Kusari-Gama
  • 1 Larceny
  • 1 Lion Sash
  • 1 Lizard Blades
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magnetic Web
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Necropolis Regent
  • 1 Nemesis Mask
  • 1 Nibelheim Aflame
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Gravestone
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stigma Lasher
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Zurgo Helmsmasher