Copy of - Zedruu by user9514475

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai political control and donate strategy led by Zedruu the Greathearted. The primary plan neutralizes opposing threats using low-cost disabling Auras like Darksteel Mutation and Witness Protection, then transfers ownership of those permanents to opponents using Zedruu or secondary donors like Bazaar Trader and Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant. In doing so, Zedruu generates compounding card advantage and life gain during each upkeep. The deck leverages this resource surplus alongside asymmetrical stax pieces such as Winter Orb, Ethersworn Canonist, and Lavinia, Azorius Renegade to constrict opponent tempo while developing toward decisive alternate win conditions. Victory is achieved through lifegain payoffs like Felidar Sovereign, casting Approach of the Second Sun, establishing a hard lockout with Lavinia, Azorius Renegade and Knowledge Pool, or weaponizing harmful gifts like Illusions of Grandeur. Robust defensive tools including Grand Abolisher and Teferi's Protection safeguard these closing sequences.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Body of Knowledge
  • 1 Brand
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse of Hospitality
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Honest Work
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Ice Magic
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Iroh, Tea Master
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Knowledge Pool
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Loxodon Peacekeeper
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Primordial Ooze
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Show and Tell
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skybridge Towers
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Spider-Man No More
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted
  • 1 Zur's Weirding