Zur, Mid/Combo by Lysandre

Format: Commander

Commander: Zur, Eternal Schemer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 64

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Enchantment Control-Combo strategy helmed by Zur, Eternal Schemer. It combines powerful card engines like Rhystic Study and The One Ring with defensive enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Authority of the Consuls to control the board. Zur grants enchantment creatures hexproof, lifelink, and deathtouch, transforming passive enchantments into resilient offensive and defensive threats. The deck closes games through decisive combo finishes, primarily using Opalescence combined with Parallax Wave. This loop permanently exiles all opposing creatures while triggering infinite constellation life drain through Grim Guardian or Underworld Coinsmith. A secondary combo of Fortune Teller's Talent at Level 3 and Sensei's Divining Top allows the pilot to draw the entire library and cast a game-ending sequence protected by Grand Abolisher, Silence, or Teferi, Time Raveler. Rich interaction and graveyard recursion through Replenish make the deck resilient against heavy disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Rector
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Knowledge
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Case of the Shattered Pact
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dance of Many
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fear of Isolation
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Guardian
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hatching Plans
  • 1 Inquisitive Glimmer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lotus Vale
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Opalescence
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Parallax Wave
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Excavations
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Master of Keys
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underworld Coinsmith
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer