Not Your Daddy's Zur

Commander / EDH* Control Enchantment Primer Reanimator WUB (Esper)

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Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 4x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (16)

• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Reya Dawnbringer
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Sun Titan

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attunement
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Unfulfilled Desires

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress

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Artifact (4)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Angelic Renewal
• 1x Banishing Light

Creature (4)

• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Zombify

Instant (2)

• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Negate

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

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Zur the Filthy Necromancer Primer:

When I first discovered Zur the Enchanter I was drawn in by his sheer power level! Honestly... few and far between are cards that hit the table and make people scared the way Zur does. As my friends always said "EDH was invented so we would have a better way to play Zur." That being said I've never been the type of player where lockdown style control made me happy. It's commander after all. What's the fun if everyone doesn't get to play? I wanted to find a way to build Zur that didn't include the ever painful Diplomatic Immunity/Daybreak Coronet voltron style of play. When I came to the miraculous conclusion that reanimation enchantments could be fetched with Zur, Reanimator Zur was born.

The Gameplay

The strategy is simple! You are a beat down reanimator deck that happens to have some control elements in case things get hazy. Zur offers an interesting but not necessary ability to tutor for not just the reanimation enchantments, but also literally every enchantment in our deck allowing us discard utility with cards like Attunement and Unfulfilled Desires, reanimation style gameplay with cards like Necromancy as well as kind of all around great utility with cards like Copy Enchantment, and Solitary Confinement.

1. Fill The Grave

2. Bring back your heart's desire

3. Drown in indescribable amounts of value

How to fill the graveyard Show

The deck is designed to run such that you can as best possible selectively choose which creatures are put into the grave. The obvious Entomb and Buried Alive are the cream of the crop allowing you to selectively put anything into your graveyard. Enchantments such as Attunement, Unfulfilled Desires (which can be tutored by Zur by the way) as well as cards like Careful Consideration, Fact or Fiction, Forbidden Alchemy, Thirst for Knowledge, Intuition, Compulsive Research have the unique effect that you can both draw as well as remove any perfect reanimation targets from your hand with a simple discard.

Reanimation effects Show

First and foremost it's always important to remember that your enchantments are instant tutor-able by Zur. That means any creature in the grave always has the chance of coming back as long as Zur remains in play and you have an enchantment in your deck.

Enchantments: Necromancy, Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead

• All serve the same great purpose of bringing back your creatures.

Other: Dread Return, Exhume, Reanimate, Unburial Rites

• When Zur isn't sticking to free tutor the enchantments and all hope is lost have no fear because other reanimation style cards are here.

A little utility goes a long way Show

Though we have a main reanimation game plan we also run a handful of great utility cards to protect/expedite this plan.

Sun Titan: Offers a constant and consistent method to return any reanimate style enchantment as well as any other enchantment in our deck that may suit our needs.

Copy Enchantment: Copy enchantment mainly exists to copy the set of reanimation enchantments and act as a duplicate, but every other target is just as good depending on the situation. Copying Greater Auramancy makes for a great combo to protect all of your enchantments/enchanted creatures.

Oblivion Ring, Oblivion Ring, Banishing Light: All serve the same great removal style effect while having the advantage of being tutor-able by Zur and Recur- able by Sun Titan.

Greater Auramancy: Offers protection to all of your enchantments as well as protection to any creatures you brought back via reanimation style enchantments.

Clever Impersonator, and Body Double: Who doesn't love two of the coolest thing?! Body Double doesn't even require you to have reanimate style cards, and clever impersonator can not only be your opponents greatest thing, but it could even be another reanimation enchantment in a pinch if you wanted it to be!

Primary win conditions Show

Though you are going to be downing in absolutely ridiculous amounts of value sometimes you just have to expedite the process. Sorin Markov and (the even better because it can be reanimated) Magister Sphinx have some of the cheesiest effects for EDH in the fact that they can instantly drop an open from 40 to 10 making most of your creatures an easy two turn swing for lethal.

All in all I have really enjoyed my time playing this deck. Any suggestions are welcomed, and also greatly appreciated!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	RG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.73
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U