Take it and keep it by chamalo

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Zedruu the Greathearted "donate" deck. The core plan is to deploy permanents with severe drawbacks - Illusions of Grandeur, Delusions of Mediocrity, Aggressive Mining, Grid Monitor, Steel Golem, Transcendence, Nine Lives, and Thought Lash - then hand them to opponents via Zedruu's activated ability and a suite of backup donate spells (Harmless Offering, Donate, Bazaar Trader, Puca's Mischief). Each donated permanent turns Zedruu's upkeep trigger into extra cards and life, fueling the primary win condition: Approach of the Second Sun, cast and then drawn again through the massive card advantage. Secondary wins come from donating lethal "gifts" - Transcendence kills an opponent at 20+ life, Nine Lives kills when it leaves, and Illusions of Grandeur's cumulative upkeep eventually costs its new owner 20 life. The deck is a slow, grindy control strategy that wins through attrition and card advantage rather than speed.

Decklist (99 cards)

• 1 Aether Membrane
• 1 Aggressive Mining
• 1 Akroan Horse
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bazaar Trader
• 1 Boros Garrison
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Brand
• 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultural Exchange
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Curse of Verbosity
• 1 Delaying Shield
• 1 Delusions of Mediocrity
• 1 Donate
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Grid Monitor
• 1 Harmless Offering
• 1 Hithlain Rope
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Humble Defector
• 1 Idyllic Tutor
• 1 Illusions of Grandeur
• 1 Irrigated Farmland
• 6 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Jinxed Choker
• 1 Jinxed Idol
• 1 Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Monastery
• 1 Nine Lives
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pendant of Prosperity
• 1 Perplexing Chimera
• 5 Plains
• 1 Political Trickery
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Puca's Mischief
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Role Reversal
• 1 Rust Elemental
• 1 Sejiri Refuge
• 1 Shifting Borders
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectral Grasp
• 1 Steel Golem
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1 Switcheroo
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Temple Bell
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thought Lash
• 1 Tranquil Cove
• 1 Transcendence
• 1 Wall of Denial
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 1 Wear // Tear
• 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
• 1 Windborn Muse
• 1 Wrong Turn
• 1 Zedruu the Greathearted