Lady Zhurong -- Maidens with Swords

Commander / EDH*

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Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Moment's Peace
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Unravel the Aether

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Bramblecrush
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Desert Twister
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Recollect
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Sylvan Tutor

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Ancestral Mask
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x City of Solitude
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Gaea's Touch
• 1x Hall of Gemstone
• 1x Holistic Wisdom
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Primeval Bounty
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Artifact (14)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sigil of Distinction
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Creature (10)

• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glissa Sunseeker
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Verduran Enchantress
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Land (40)

• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 20x Forest
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Seasons Past

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Vessel of Nascency

Land (1)

• 1x Command Beacon

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Who is she, and why?

Lady Zhurong is a fictional character in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. She claimed to be descended from the fire deity Zhu Rong, from whom she acquired her name. Zhurong was the only woman in the novel who took part in any of the fighting, battling against Shu Han forces alongside her husband. -- Wikipedia

Portal Three Kingdoms legends: interesting and eduational!

Lady Zhurong is a 4/3 for 4G, slightly mediocre by current creature strength standards. Unlike other green voltron generals Thrun, the Last Troll and Silvos, Rogue Elemental, Lady Zhurong hasn't got any form of built-in protection like hexproof or regeneration. However, what she does have is the best evasion of any mono-green commander. And in mono-green, instead of trying so hard to protect her, you can just ramp hard so when she dies you can recast her again again.

How did I decide on Lady Zhurong? To be honest -- I was initially going to build Sigarda, but I didn't want a general with such unappealing artwork. Lady Zhurong's artwork is flat-out beautiful. Since I like my decks to have an aesthetic theme, to complement this lovely general, I eschewed the typical big monsters of mono-green decks for a bunch of female warriors and shieldbearers for Lady Zhurong.

The gameplan

It's a straight voltron gameplan here. Swords, auras, and go wild. Lady Zhurong isn't efficient enough to beat opponents to death quick, so we go for the long game, using the enchantress package and Life from the Loam with cycling lands to draw enough cards to keep running while dumping all the deck's lands onto the table.

City of Solitude and Hall of Gemstone do serious work, locking the opponents out of interaction so a massive, hasty Zhurong can run in to one-shot.

This deck also packs enough Exploration effects to play the Strip Mine/Crucible of Worlds game with ease, if we feel like something a bit more nasty.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G