I ship Ziatora x Smaug by Lapras32

Format: Commander

Commander: Ziatora, the Incinerator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Jund sacrifice-value deck helmed by Ziatora, the Incinerator. The primary plan is to ramp into high-power creatures, then sacrifice them at the end step to deal direct damage and generate three Treasures each turn. The deck leverages a dense recursion suite to repeatedly replay its threats, while theft effects (Captivating Crew, Loki's Scepter) provide additional sacrificial fodder. Secondary win conditions include Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord flinging a giant creature to all opponents, and combat damage from power-doubled attackers like Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus and The Skullspore Nexus. The deck plays a grindy midrange game, aiming to out-value opponents through incremental sacrifice triggers and card advantage engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Lighthouse
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Captivating Crew
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Daemogoth Titan
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Disciple of Bolas
• 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Erebor Heirloom
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feign Death
• 1 Feldon of the Third Path
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 3 Forest
• 1 God-Eternal Bontu
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hunter's Insight
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
• 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
• 1 Khalni Garden
• 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
• 1 Kura, the Boundless Sky
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Loki's Scepter
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mimic Vat
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Not Dead After All
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Patron of the Arts
• 1 Pawn of Ulamog
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Phytotitan
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Protean Hulk
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Riveteers Overlook
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
• 1 The Skullspore Nexus
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Traitorous Greed
• 1 Twisted Fealty
• 1 Twisted Landscape
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Undying Malice
• 1 Vat of Rebirth
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodfall Primus
• 1 Workshop Warchief
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
• 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator
• 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus