Plan Z **Hour of Devastation Update**

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Control Voltron WUB (Esper)

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Land (35)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 3x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Cataclysm
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Winds of Rath

Instant (22)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Foil
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Gush
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Void Shatter

Artifact (11)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Enchantment (19)

• 1x Battle Mastery
• 1x Daybreak Coronet
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity
• 1x Empyrial Armor
• 1x Ethereal Armor
• 1x Fallen Ideal
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Steel of the Godhead
• 1x Vanishing

Creature (4)

• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Sun Titan

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Enchantment (4)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Web of Inertia

Instant (3)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Rewind

Creature (2)

• 1x Bruna, Light of Alabaster
• 1x Sovereigns of Lost Alara

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When all else fails...

Game Plan

Get Zur out as quickly and safely as possible. He is one of our few creatures and searches out the cards we need to win. Unless you can cast him turn 1 or 2-- it is advised to leave up counter magic in order to protect him. With the first few tutors it is probably beneficial to grab enchants to fortify your board state. Diplomatic Immunity gives Zur shroud so our opponents cannot kill him with spot removal. Giving the commander shroud might seem counter productive when trying to put other enchants on him, but the good news is that Zur's ability does not target with auras pulled from the deck. This is because Auras target when they are being cast, not as they enter, so we simply choose something for an aura to go onto.

If we aren't playing super fast then we are slowing our opponents down and controlling the board with cards like Cataclysm and Stasis.

WinCons

There are three main routes to take in order to win with this deck:

Ad Nauseam

Ad Nauseam is a hell of a card. Play this along side Angel's Grace or Phyrexian Unlife to draw your entire deck. From there you can play out all of the mana artifacts. With all of this free mana cast Laboratory Maniac and then use a draw effect to win. The main draw spell for this is Gush, so it is important that a couple of islands are on board. The other draw effects come from a couple of lands in the deck-- Fetid Pools or Irrigated Farmland can be cycled away with the extra mana from our artifacts. If someone attempts to intervene then we have counter magic as backup. This is the quickest way to victory and the only method that takes everyone out at once. This is a very effective and powerful combo, but if the opponent does manage to stop it at the right time-- we lose.

Library Exile

Helm of Obedience combined with Rest in Peace will exile an opponent's entire deck if activated. This effectively eliminated one person at a time.

Voltron

One of the more popular ways to play Zur is as a voltron deck. There are only a handful of enchants in the deck to pump up Zur, but they can potentially make him a one-shot kill. Cards like Ethereal Armor and Daybreak Coronet might pump Zur up-- but that's only the tip of the iceberg. Phyresis shortens our opponent's clock from 21 damage to 10. Empyrial Armor in combination with Necropotence and a "no max hand size" effect allows us to hit for 20+.

Solemn Messenger

The release of the Amonkhet block brought with it a very powerful enchantment-- Solemnity. This card is crazy powerful with so many cards, so I decided to play a few of them. The goal with this combo is to play Geralf's Messenger which drains an opponent for 2 when it enters the battlefield. Because of solemnity, the messenger will keep coming back once it dies due to the fact it can never receive the undying counter. To repeatedly kill the messenger we play Fallen Ideal as a sac outlet and kill everyone on the spot unless someone has enchantment removal. This is a 3 piece combo but two of the pieces are tutorable with Zur. Additionally, the combo is very low risk to go for as opposed to some of the other combos in the deck, if the opponent can destroy this combo then it's not going to be a blowout for us.

Other Notable Combos

Necropotence + Solitary Confinement makes it to where we cannot take damage or be targeted at the cost of 1 life and 1 card a turn.

Solemnity + Phyrexian Unlife let's us sit at 0 or less life and not die from damage or infect.

Card Choices

Work in Progress

Deck Strengths and Weakness

Work in Progress

This is one of the few commander decks I have kept over the years and I am constantly trying to improve it. Any suggestions would be appreciated and don't forget to +1 if you enjoyed the deck list.

Top Ranked	Achieved #20 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	RG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.54
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U