Ezuri Primal Surge Wizard Tribal build

Commander / EDH

TRK27

Creature (56)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cephalid Constable
• 1x Champion of Wits
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Ertai, Wizard Adept
• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Kaseto, Orochi Archmage
• 1x Kheru Spellsnatcher
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Library
• 1x Magus of the Vineyard
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Patron Wizard
• 1x Prodigal Sorcerer
• 1x Profaner of the Dead
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Silumgar Sorcerer
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Temporal Adept
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Viridian Joiner
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Voidmage Apprentice
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Willbender
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 6x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 14x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Song of the Dryads

Artifact (3)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Planar Portal

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Primal Surge

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Primal Surge Wizard tribal with Ezuri, Claw of Progress at the helm. The basic idea is that Wizards are a tribe of spell effects stapled to creatures, so they allow you to protect your combo and interact with opponents while still staying within Primal Surge's harsh deckbuilding restriction.

Ezuri helps you ramp into Primal Surge by sticking a bunch of counters on Gyre Sage or Viridian Joiner or Crystalline Crawler. He can also draw a ton of cards with Fathom Mage, make Cephalid Constable bounce entire boards, and make Profaner of the Dead and Simic Manipulator much more effective.

You find Primal Surge with Fauna Shaman or Vedalken AEthermage or Yisan, the Wanderer Bard or Birthing Pod or Momir Vig, Simic Visionary into Treasure Mage into Planar Portal. Then you cast Primal Surge and win with Laboratory Maniac off of Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Champion of Wits, etc.

If the Primal Surge plan fails you can fall back on Aphetto Alchemist / Illusionist's Bracers (have him target himself with the copied instance of his ability to get infinite untaps) combined with any of your numerous wizards with tap abilities. Draw your deck with Azami, Lady of Scrolls, lock opponents out of the game with Patron Wizard, or win outright with Prodigal Sorcerer.

As a third plan, you can sometimes sneak in a quick win with Sage of Hours, but this is a well-known and much-detested Ezuri combo and will get you targeted.

The final way to go about winning is simply to beat faces in with creatures that have had a bunch of counters stuck on them by Ezuri. The deck is controlling enough to protect this line of play, too. There are games I've won just by swinging over and over again with a 20/21 Trygon Predator while my Glen Elendra Archmage / Sage of Fables lock is online.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Champion of Wits 4/4 B, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Thopter 1/1 C, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W
Folders	Commander / EDH