Kung Fu Fighting by NobleGiratina

Format: Commander

Commander: Zethi, Arcane Blademaster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius spellslinger midrange strategy led by Zethi, Arcane Blademaster. The deck's primary plan revolves around filling the graveyard in the early turns using efficient one-mana cantrips, card filtering, and protection spells. Once key instants are in the graveyard, Zethi, Arcane Blademaster is cast with multikicker to exile them with kick counters. Each time Zethi attacks, she copies these exiled spells and allows you to cast them, creating an engine of recurring card draw, unblockable evasion, and defensive shielding. The deck converts this spell velocity into game-winning pressure through prowess and magecraft token generators like Monastery Mentor and Murmuring Mystic, amplified by anthem effects like Leonin Lightscribe and scalable counters from Show of Confidence. Backed by a dense suite of spot removal, countermagic, and repeatable protection spells, the deck controls opposing threats while steadily eliminating the table over multiple combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Beaming Defiance
  • 1 Boon of Safety
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Defiant Strike
  • 1 Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Enter the Avatar State
  • 1 Erase
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Leap
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Leonin Lightscribe
  • 1 Lightfoot Technique
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Radstorm
  • 1 Rapier Wit
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rebellious Strike
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Show of Confidence
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taigam, Ojutai Master
  • 1 Take Up the Shield
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Unauthorized Exit
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windrider Wizard
  • 1 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster