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Format: Commander

Commander: Zur, Eternal Schemer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper pillowfort and enchantment control deck commanded by Zur, Eternal Schemer. The strategy focuses on establishing defensive barriers through attack taxes like Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Sphere of Safety, while slowing opposing tempo with tap effects like Frozen Aether and Kismet. Once the board is locked down, the commander animates high-cost enchantments into resilient creatures with deathtouch, lifelink, and hexproof. The deck features exceptional tutor density to assemble specific answers or win conditions on demand. However, it lacks recurring card-draw engines and finishes the game through slow, non-infinite combat damage, leaving it vulnerable to mass permanent removal like Farewell or Cyclonic Rift during protracted turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Absolution
  • 1 Assault Suit
  • 1 Aurification
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromium, the Mutable
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commence the Endgame
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eye of Singularity
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frozen Aether
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hesitation
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kismet
  • 1 Long-Term Plans
  • 1 Lunar Force
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Mornsong Aria
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl Lake Ancient
  • 1 Perplex
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plea for Guidance
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Spark Rupture
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Summary Dismissal
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Cruelty of Gix
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 War Tax
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer