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Format: Commander

Commander: Zo-Zu the Punisher

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This mono-red stax deck punishes lands and spells to grind opponents out. Zo-Zu the Punisher and Ankh of Mishra deal 2 damage for each land that enters, while Manabarbs, Burning Earth, Spellshock, and Sulfuric Vortex tax every mana tap and spell cast. Blood Moon, Magus of the Moon, Ruination, From the Ashes, and Wildfire keep opponents on basics and force repeated land drops for more triggers. Torbran, Furnace of Rath, and Dictate of the Twin Gods double the pings, and Heartless Hidetsugu or Price of Progress close the game. You win by stacking 6-8 overlapping punishers, not by combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Acidic Soil
• 1 Akki Blizzard-Herder
• 1 Ankh of Mishra
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Moon
• 1 Burning Earth
• 1 Cemetery Gatekeeper
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Citadel of Pain
• 1 Cleansing Wildfire
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1 Dingus Egg
• 1 Dwarven Blastminer
• 1 Dwarven Driller
• 1 Dwarven Miner
• 1 Endless Atlas
• 1 Epicenter
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 From the Ashes
• 1 Furnace of Rath
• 1 Ghirapur Orrery
• 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1 Harsh Mentor
• 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1 Impending Disaster
• 1 Invader Parasite
• 1 Iron Myr
• 1 Keldon Firebombers
• 1 Krenko's Buzzcrusher
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Magus of the Moon
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Mine Layer
• 35 Mountain
• 1 Price of Glory
• 1 Price of Progress
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Roiling Terrain
• 1 Roiling Vortex
• 1 Rug of Smothering
• 1 Ruination
• 1 Smoke
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellshock
• 1 Stoneshaker Shaman
• 1 Storm Cauldron
• 1 Stranglehold
• 1 Sulfuric Vortex
• 1 Sunspine Lynx
• 1 Tectonic Instability
• 1 Thoughts of Ruin
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Tremble
• 1 Tunnel Ignus
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Wake of Destruction
• 1 War's Toll
• 1 Wildfire
• 1 Winter Moon
• 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher