Zethi by user1335889

Format: Commander

Commander: Zethi, Arcane Blademaster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius spellslinger tempo deck built around Zethi, Arcane Blademaster. The strategy focuses on stocking the graveyard in early turns using cheap cantrips, card selection, and self-mill spells like Consider, Thought Scour, and Otherworldly Gaze. Once the graveyard contains vital utility and evasion spells, Zethi is cast with multikicker to exile them with kick counters. Upon attacking, Zethi copies and casts each kicked card, creating an engine of repeatable card draw, unblockability, and removal without depleting cards from hand. The deck converts this spell velocity into game-ending pressure through token producers like Monastery Mentor and Talrand, Sky Summoner, power scaling via Octavia, Living Thesis and Leonin Lightscribe, or incremental burn from Sentinel Tower. Because it relies on fair combat damage across multiple turn cycles to eliminate three opponents, it plays a resilient tempo game supported by dense instant-speed protection and efficient interaction rather than fast infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Astral Steel
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Leap
  • 1 Leonin Lightscribe
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mental Note
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niblis of Frost
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Octavia, Living Thesis
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pieces of the Puzzle
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Sentinel Tower
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Show of Confidence
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 You Come to a River
  • 1 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster