Ziatora by Neonster

Format: Commander

Commander: Ziatora, the Incinerator

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Jund aristocrats and big-mana strategy helmed by Ziatora, the Incinerator. The primary game plan accelerates mana on Turns 1 through 3 using efficient dorks and land ramp to deploy Ziatora on Turn 4. The deck utilizes undercosted high-power creatures like Slumbering Trudge and recurring threats like Phytotitan and Urabrask's Forge as prime sacrifice fodder. At each end step, Ziatora converts these creatures into targeted burn and a burst of three Treasure tokens. On Turn 5, these Treasures fuel aristocrat amplifiers such as Mirkwood Bats and Marionette Master or power-doubling artifacts like The Skullspore Nexus. Steal effects like Mass Mutiny and Sauron, the Lidless Eye double as asymmetric removal by attacking opponents with their own threats before sacrificing them for direct damage. Supported by free redirection and reanimation, the deck reliably eliminates all three opponents by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Biotech Specialist
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloody Betrayal
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Harness by Force
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mass Mutiny
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noggle Robber
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Patron of the Arts
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phytotitan
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shadow in the Warp
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slimefoot and Squee
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 The Beast, Deathless Prince
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator