Etali and Zur by CharaTamamo

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness and Zur the Enchanter

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 66

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive 5-color Turbo Commander list designed to cast Etali, Primal Conqueror ahead of curve and cascade through libraries. It uses premier fast mana, rituals, and spirit guides to generate seven mana by Turn 2 or Turn 3. Once Etali enters the battlefield, its ability casts the top nonland card from each player's library for free. The deck leverages a dense package of low-cost clone spells, such as Twinflame and Molten Duplication, to create copies of Etali. Because of the legend rule, each clone enters, triggers another four-card cascade, and replaces the previous copy. This storm of triggers rapidly digs through all four libraries, assembling Food Chain plus Squee, the Immortal or an Underworld Breach loop to win on the spot. While exceptionally fast and proactive, the list runs minimal defensive stax and relies on resolving its initial commander cast through opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chandra, Flameshaper
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Intuition
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kindle the Inner Flame
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter
  • 1 _____ Goblin