Zur Enchantress by user8188499

Format: Commander

Commander: Zur, Eternal Schemer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Enchantress control strategy commanded by Zur, Eternal Schemer. It establishes early mana velocity through 2-CMC mana rocks and cost reducers before casting Zur on turn 3. The mid-game focuses on assembling defensive pillowfort layers like Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Sphere of Safety alongside spell restrictions like Eidolon of Rhetoric to stifle opposing aggression. Meanwhile, engines such as Phyrexian Arena, Greed, and Enduring Curiosity replenish the hand. The deck transitions to victory around turn 6 by animating high-CMC enchantments with Zur, Starfield of Nyx, or Opalescence, or by generating massive token swarms with Hallowed Haunting and Sigil of the Empty Throne. Zur grants all enchantment creatures hexproof, lifelink, and deathtouch, allowing the deck to dominate combat and close out the game over two combat cycles while leaning on mass reanimation spells like Open the Vaults to recover from sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Agent of Erebos
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Brago, King Eternal
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cleansing Meditation
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dictate of Heliod
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Domestication
  • 1 Doomwake Giant
  • 1 Dream Leash
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extinguish All Hope
  • 1 Fall of the Thran
  • 1 Faramir, Prince of Ithilien
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
  • 1 In Bolas's Clutches
  • 1 Inquisitive Glimmer
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Mark of Eviction
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 1 Monk Idealist
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Opalescence
  • 1 Open the Vaults
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Out of Time
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
  • 1 Parallax Wave
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Repair and Recharge
  • 1 Riptide Chimera
  • 1 Roiling Dragonstorm
  • 1 Seal of Cleansing
  • 1 Search the Premises
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Soul Snare
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teeming Dragonstorm
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Creation of Avacyn
  • 1 The Fall of Lord Konda // Fragment of Konda
  • 1 The Master of Keys
  • 1 Thoughtrender Lamia
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer