ziatora b2 attempt by user3843818

Format: Commander

Commander: Ziatora, the Incinerator

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund midrange Aristocrats strategy commanded by Ziatora, the Incinerator. The primary game plan focuses on deploying efficient ramp during the opening turns, establishing high-power creatures, and resolving Ziatora on Turn 5. At the beginning of each end step, Ziatora sacrifices a creature to deal direct damage equal to its power to any target while generating three Treasure tokens. This engine creates continuous mana acceleration and board control, allowing the deck to cast massive threats like The Balrog of Moria and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King or recur fallen creatures using Reanimate and Riveteers Ascendancy. The deck finishes games through direct fling damage, aerial combat, and incremental drain from cards like Marionette Apprentice and Agent of the Iron Throne. While resilient and capable of generating heavy resource advantages, its clock is fair and interactive, requiring several turn cycles to eliminate the entire table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Biotech Specialist
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boomer Scrapper
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desecration Demon
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ichor Shade
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pestbrood Sloth
  • 1 Price of Fame
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
  • 1 Riveteers Charm
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator