zaxara by user2728135

Format: Commander

Commander: Zaxara, the Exemplary

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Sultai Hydra and +1/+1 counters strategy helmed by Zaxara, the Exemplary. The primary game plan accelerates mana through efficient 1-2 CMC dorks and rocks, deploys Zaxara on Turn 3, and begins chaining massive X-cost Hydra spells on Turn 4. Zaxara provides high tempo by effectively doubling every X-spell cast into an additional threatening body. The deck scales rapidly using counter multipliers like Branching Evolution and Corpsejack Menace, alongside trample enablers like Garruk's Uprising, culminating in lethal board states around Turn 6. While the deck contains an infinite mana combo using Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura on Zaxara to fuel lethal Exsanguinate casts, the lack of nonland tutors makes this an opportunistic secondary finish rather than the primary line. The deck's primary vulnerabilities lie in sorcery-speed sweepers and a light instant-speed interactive suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alpha Authority
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armorcraft Judge
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bow of Nylea
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Death Denied
  • 1 Deathcap Cultivator
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elementalist's Palette
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Hydra
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydra Broodmaster
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mistcutter Hydra
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Protean Hydra
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thunderous Snapper
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyranid Prime
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Unbridled Growth
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Voyaging Satyr
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wren's Run Hydra
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zaxara, the Exemplary