Zedruus Giftsgiving by user9627358

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zedruu's Giftsgiving is a fetch-and-donate control deck. The primary plan is to give away harmless or beneficial permanents so Zedruu draws cards and gains life, then use those resources to deploy pillowfort and Rule-of-Law effects. The secondary path weaponizes the gifts: Illusions of Grandeur, Nine Lives, and Delaying Shield are donated, then removed with Austere Command or Time Wipe to drain life or cause a game loss. Heliod, the Radiant Dawn provides enchantment recursion, and its Warped Eclipse face grants flash and cost reduction in this draw-heavy shell. There is no hidden commander; Zedruu is both engine and kill enabler, and the deck wins through late-game attrition rather than combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Rector
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Arcane Laboratory
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Artifact
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Delaying Shield
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Estrid's Invocation
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Island Sanctuary
  • 1 Karmic Justice
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moderation
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Rainbow Vale
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Rule of Law
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Share the Spoils
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Statecraft
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sunbaked Canyon
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Unstable Glyphbridge // Sandswirl Wanderglyph
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Wild Research
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yes Man, Personal Securitron
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted