Zur by user75384

Format: Commander

Commander: Zur the Enchanter

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Esper control and combo deck uses Zur the Enchanter to tutor key enchantments directly onto the battlefield. Low-cost mana rocks accelerate Zur into play on Turn 3, enabling an attack on Turn 4. Zur's combat triggers assemble asymmetric lock states, combining damage-prevention cards like Solemnity and Phyrexian Unlife or draw-denial engines using Mornsong Aria and Opposition Agent. A dense suite of attack taxes including Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Sphere of Safety prevents opposing creature combat, while counterspells defend key spells on the stack. After securing the board, the deck wins by tutoring and casting the infinite life-drain combo of Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond, casting Approach of the Second Sun twice, or copying Phage the Untouchable with Fractured Identity. While the lockouts are formidable, the deck relies heavily on Zur surviving his first turn on the board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Access Denied
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archangel of Tithes
  • 1 Archmage Ascension
  • 1 Archon of Absolution
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Battletide Alchemist
  • 1 Blood Reckoning
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypsis
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Demonic Collusion
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Energy Field
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Hissing Miasma
  • 1 Holy Mantle
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Koskun Falls
  • 1 Lightmine Field
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
  • 1 Maralen of the Mornsong
  • 1 Mornsong Aria
  • 1 Noctis, Prince of Lucis
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Noxious Field
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orbs of Warding
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phage the Untouchable
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Sigil
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unquestioned Authority
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter