Budget Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Commander / EDH*

upgraded

Artifact (28)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Hedron Matrix
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loreseeker's Stone
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Pearl Medallion
• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Strata Scythe
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worldslayer
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Creature (16)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kinjalli's Caller
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Palace Jailer
• 1x Palace Sentinels
• 1x Protector of the Crown
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Wall of Omens

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Rout
• 1x Sublime Exhalation
• 1x Terminus

Instant (1)

• 1x Return to Dust

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Armored Ascension
• 1x Arrest
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Sigarda's Aid
• 1x Stasis Snare

Land (38)

• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 34x Plains
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Throne of the High City

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The deck is mostly focused on keeping other people from winning while you ramp up to your commander and then winning with commander damage. Zetalpa, Primal Dawn's Double Strike, Evasion AND indestructibility make it ideally suited to being suited up with equipment and winning with commander damage. While traditional voltron decks try to put a bunch of equipment and auras on your commander, Zetalpa only really needs one piece of equipment to be a threat. The deck contains 6 pieces of equipment or auras that plausibly let Zetalpa kill an opponent each turn:

Armored Ascension

Assault Suit

Bonehoard

Grafted Exoskeleton

Hedron Matrix

Strata Scythe

Worldslayer (this doesn't kill opponent's immediately, but it does destroy everything but Zetalpa and worldslayer each turn).

A non-budget version of this list would probably include Stoneforge Mystic, Eldrazi Conscription, Blightsteel Colossus and a few more tutor's. The Sword of X and Y cycle would also be very good in this deck. They help you get value in the midgame and they turn Zetalpa into a 6/6, speeding up her clock by a turn per player.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, The Monarch, Treasure
Folders	EDH