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Format: Commander

Commander: Zur, Eternal Schemer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an enchantment/room value deck built around Zur, Eternal Schemer. The primary plan is to use Eerie and enchantress triggers to generate tokens and cards (Ghostly Dancers, Gremlin Tamer, Entity Tracker, Mesa Enchantress), then animate large enchantments with Zur for combat or assemble the Enchanted Evening + Aura Thief combo to steal every permanent. Secondary paths are the Room-mill win via Central Elevator // Promising Stairs and a slow Super State beater. Aminatou, Veil Piercer acts as a hidden commander, turning enchantment draws into miracle-cost plays. Zur's role is protection and evasion: his static shields enchantment creatures and his ability turns non-Aura enchantments into attackers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Aura Thief
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Central Elevator // Promising Stairs
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
  • 1 Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
  • 1 Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Diabolic Vision
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doomwake Giant
  • 1 Enchanted Evening
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Ethereal Armor
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fear of Isolation
  • 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Ghostly Dancers
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gremlin Tamer
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Inquisitive Glimmer
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Meat Locker // Drowned Diner
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Niko, Light of Hope
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Phenomenon Investigators
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Redress Fate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restricted Office // Lecture Hall
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor
  • 1 Seized from Slumber
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Adversary
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super State
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Master of Keys
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timely Ward
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vanish from Sight
  • 1 Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
  • 1 Warehouse Tabby
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer