Zax Deck Check by AllegiantKyukon

Format: Commander

Commander: Zaxara, the Exemplary

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai big-mana midrange strategy commanded by Zaxara, the Exemplary. The core game plan focuses on deploying early ramp on Turns 1 and 2 to resolve Zaxara ahead of curve on Turn 3. Once Zaxara is active, every spell with {X} in its cost produces an additional scalable Hydra token while Zaxara itself taps for two mana of any one color. The deck channels this mana velocity into large draw spells like Pull from Tomorrow and Hydroid Krasis, continuous token swarms from Awaken the Woods, and explosive board buffs. The primary win condition is casting Finale of Devastation for X>=10 on Turn 6 to tutor Craterhoof Behemoth, giving the entire board haste, trample, and massive power buffs to eliminate all three opponents in a single swing. Backup routes include direct table drain via Exsanguinate and massive value replication using Doppelgang.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Brass Infiniscope
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Colossal Skyturtle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Insight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Edge of Autumn
  • 1 Elementalist's Palette
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Into the North
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Lattice Library
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mana Bloom
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nev, the Practical Dean
  • 1 Oko, Thief of Crowns
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Owlin Spiralmancer
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 1 Primo, the Unbounded
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zaxara, the Exemplary
  • 1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst