Shamm (Zur) by TJStunts

Format: Commander

Commander: Zur the Enchanter

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper enchantment control and pillowfort build piloted by Zur the Enchanter. The strategy revolves around deploying Zur on Turn 3 or 4 and attacking to tutor high-impact enchantments with mana value 3 or less directly onto the battlefield without paying mana. Zur immediately fetches protective auras like Diplomatic Immunity or Vanishing to secure the commander against removal, followed by the defensive lock of Solemnity and Nine Lives, which prevents all damage dealt to the pilot. The deck controls the board through tutorable single-target neutralizers like Oubliette and Imprisoned in the Moon, effectively trapping opposing commanders on the battlefield. Win conditions include token swarms from Sigil of the Empty Throne and Hallowed Haunting, commander damage via Battle Mastery, or attrition drain from Grim Guardian. The deck excels in tutor consistency and defense but remains vulnerable to mass enchantment exile and non-damage loss of life.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashes of the Abhorrent
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Battle Mastery
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Diplomatic Immunity
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eaten by Piranhas
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frogify
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Grim Guardian
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hallowed Haunting
  • 1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
  • 1 Heliod, God of the Sun
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Ichthyomorphosis
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Metamorphic Alteration
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Subdual
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Overwhelming Splendor
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polymorphist's Jest
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Realmbreaker's Grasp
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprobation
  • 1 Retether
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shimmerwing Chimera
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigarda's Aid
  • 1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Stab Wound
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Stasis Snare
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 The Birth of Meletis
  • 1 Three Dreams
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vedalken Humiliator
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Words of Wind
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter