Bad Friends by oppa002

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck is piloted by Zedruu the Greathearted and operates as a Bad Gifts control and chaos strategy. The game plan focuses on establishing early mana development through signets and medallions, resolving Zedruu, and transferring control of restrictive or actively harmful permanents to opponents. Cards like Steel Golem and Grid Monitor lock out creature-based strategies, while Aggressive Mining halts land development and Thought Lash threatens library exile. Defensive tools such as Island Sanctuary, Glacial Chasm, Pramikon, Sky Rampart, and Silent Arbiter suppress incoming combat damage. Meanwhile, global disruptors like Possibility Storm and Grip of Chaos make coordinated opponent interaction nearly impossible. As Zedruu draws multiple extra cards each upkeep from donated permanents, the deck transitions into direct player eliminations via cumulative upkeep triggers, Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos combat scaling, or an alternate win condition like Triskaidekaphile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aeon Engine
  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Alabaster Leech
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Boldwyr Heavyweights
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusion in the Ranks
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feedback
  • 1 Flamehold Grappler
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Grip of Chaos
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inspired Ultimatum
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Island Sanctuary
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeskai Infiltrator
  • 1 Jeskai Revelation
  • 1 Knowledge Pool
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Lich's Mirror
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Miren, the Moaning Well
  • 1 Moderation
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Numot, the Devastator
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Possibility Storm
  • 1 Pramikon, Sky Rampart
  • 1 Rainbow Vale
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Role Reversal
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Share the Spoils
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Smoke
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thought Lash
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Transcendence
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Vedalken Plotter
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted
  • 1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice