Zedruu the Greathearted by soundguy1993

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Jeskai "bad gifts" and theft-control deck built around Zedruu the Greathearted. The primary plan is to donate symmetrical or self-destructive permanents - Steel Golem, Grid Monitor, Aggressive Mining, Statecraft, Nine Lives, and Pyromancer's Swath - then cash every donated permanent in for Zedruu-triggered life and cards. A large theft package, including Control Magic, Agent of Treachery, Memnarch, Empress Galina, and Reins of Power, turns the table's own creatures into the deck's win condition. Finishing options are gradual but real: Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos roams the table as an un-hittable clock, Illusions of Grandeur plus Leave // Chance can deal a 20-life swing, and Reins of Power can one-shot a crowded board. This is a slow, political, interaction-dense deck with no fast combo and no deterministic kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 Alabaster Leech
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Thief
  • 1 Aura of Dominion
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
  • 1 Charisma
  • 1 Chef's Kiss
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cytoplast Manipulator
  • 1 Dack Fayden
  • 1 Dismiss into Dream
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Empress Galina
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Inevitable Betrayal
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Leave // Chance
  • 1 Master Thief
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 1 Mind Control
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pendant of Prosperity
  • 1 Perch Protection
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Pyromancer's Swath
  • 1 Ray of Command
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Role Reversal
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Statecraft
  • 1 Steal Artifact
  • 1 Steal Enchantment
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Take Possession
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Vedalken Plotter
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Yes Man, Personal Securitron
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted
  • 1 Zidane, Tantalus Thief