Ziatora2 by Jables

Format: Commander

Commander: Ziatora, the Incinerator

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Jund deck is commanded by Ziatora, the Incinerator, utilizing a potent fusion of Dragon tribal beatdown, graveyard reanimation, and aristocrats burn. The primary game plan accelerates early using one-mana mana dorks and ramp spells, quickly binning titanic Dragon threats like Atarka, World Render, Utvara Hellkite, and Terror of the Peaks using efficient discard outlets and graveyard tutors. By Turn 4, the deck cheats these threats onto the battlefield using low-cost reanimation spells or Sneak Attack. On Turn 5, massive flying attacks paired with Ziatora, the Incinerator's end-step fling ability chunk opposing life totals and generate Treasure tokens. Asymmetric board wipes such as Crux of Fate and attrition engines like Grave Pact keep opposing creature boards clear while you close the game across two subsequent combat rounds. The list trades infinite combos for explosive combat steps, sustained direct burn, and strong multi-zone resilience.

Decklist (108 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boneyard Scourge
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn of the Dead
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fling
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malignus
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
  • 1 Sarkhan Vol
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Scavenger Regent // Exude Toxin
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stalking Vengeance
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator