New Untitled Deck by user5857583

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Zedruu the Greathearted deck operates as a specialized Bad Gifts control and political stax strategy. Its primary game plan revolves around casting debilitating permanents with severe asymmetric drawbacks—such as Steel Golem, Aggressive Mining, Pyromancer's Swath, and Transcendence—and transferring control of them to opponents using Zedruu's activated ability or auxiliary donation spells like Donate and Iroh, Tea Master. Once gifts are distributed, Zedruu generates compounding card advantage and life gain each upkeep, fueling a robust interactive suite of free countermagic (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat) and spot removal (Swords to Plowshares, Cyclonic Rift). Opponents are systematically dismantled either through hard resource denial or sudden lethal bursts from Transcendence, Illusions of Grandeur, and Nine Lives combined with bounce or exile effects from Venser, the Sojourner. The deck excels at grinding out multiplayer pods by turning symmetric board states into insurmountable asymmetric deficits.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Akron Legionnaire
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avaricious Dragon
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Brave the Elements
  • 1 Bronze Bombshell
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Giant
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Contested Game Ball
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Crown of Doom
  • 1 Cultural Exchange
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delusions of Mediocrity
  • 1 Donate
  • 1 Emberwilde Caliph
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Frenzy
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Geist-Fueled Scarecrow
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Goldnight Castigator
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Iroh, Tea Master
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jinxed Idol
  • 1 Kookus
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loxodon Peacekeeper
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Moderation
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Political Trickery
  • 1 Pyromancer's Swath
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Role Reversal
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Serendib Djinn
  • 1 Shifting Borders
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Statecraft
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Transcendence
  • 1 Troublesome Spirit
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Venser, the Sojourner
  • 1 Vibrating Sphere
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wild Research
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted