Your Zada Build Sucks

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Goblins Mono-Red Tokens

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Card Draw (15)

• 1x Accelerate
• 1x Aleatory
• 1x Ancestral Anger
• 1x Balduvian Rage
• 1x Boiling Blood
• 1x Chaotic Strike
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Panic
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Spark of Creativity
• 1x Stun
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Creatures - Utility (6)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Goblin Chirurgeon
• 1x Goblin Matron
• 1x Goblin Recruiter
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Dwarven Mine
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 30x Mountain
• 1x Mutavault

Creatures - Mana (14)

• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Hedron Crawler
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Manakin
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Skirk Prospector
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Treasure Nabber

Mass Pump (8)

• 1x Assault Strobe
• 1x Blazing Shoal
• 1x Downhill Charge
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Invigorated Rampage
• 1x Sudden Breakthrough
• 1x Temur Battle Rage
• 1x Twinflame

Ramp (6)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Traitorous Greed

Commander (1)

Creatures - Bodies (13)

• 1x Beetleback Chief
• 1x Dragon Fodder
• 1x Goblin Instigator
• 1x Hanweir Garrison  ^Meld
• 1x Hordeling Outburst
• 1x Krenko, Mob Boss
• 1x Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1x Krenko's Command
• 1x Legion Warboss
• 1x Mogg War Marshal
• 1x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 1x Tempt with Vengeance
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Utility (2)

• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

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Apologies for the clickbait title, but for being a commander that can realistically be built only one way, there are a lot of painfully clunky Zada, Hedron Grinder decks on here. This list cuts out all the cute stuff to be as focused as possible on consistently achieving an attack for 100+ damage by turn 5 or 6. Every card in the 99 should be viable in the first five turns of the game and should generate bodies, cards, mana, or damage. If it doesn't fit that description, it probably belongs in a different deck.

Card Draw

There are 13 viable "target a creature + draw a card" cantrips available to us. We run them all, and would run more if we could, as the deck doesn't really function without having one of them to get the snowball rolling down the hill. Wheel of Fortune and Skullclamp round out the card draw suite.

Pump

You need fewer dedicated pump spells than you think. If you have enough bodies on board, your draw spells will draw you to spells that net mana, which will allow you to cast more draw spells, and basically storm off. The deck runs 5 "pure" pump spells, looking to assemble doublestrike, trample, and haste in addition to increased power.

Creatures

Most are self-explanatory (multiple bodies for one card: good), but a few worth calling out:

Goblin Chirurgeon - Our top tutor target, this is the best way to ensure we get to untap with Zada. It also mitigates wraths, since we'll at least keep half our goblins.

Skirk Prospector - Tutor target 1B, this guy lets us convert bodies into the mana for one last pump spell on our go-off turn.

Along with Prospector, Storm-Kiln Artist is the other mana-generating creature that can generate broken amounts of mana. Red isn't known for its mana dorks, but we run every other playable mana creature available in the color. Each creature draws us an additional card off of Zada. Mana rocks do not. Thus, only the absolute best-of-the-best mana rocks make the cut.

Dualcaster Mage - His copy effect doesn't go infinite with Zada, since copied spells aren't cast. However, we're already running Twinflame and Heat Shimmer to combo with Zada, doubling our board and usually netting mana, and the Mage does form an infinite combo with them if we happen to have both pieces.

Krenko, Mob Boss, Purphoros, God of the Forge are our backup commanders if our opponent(s) really keep us off the Zada plan. Purphoros in particular is invaluable for finishing off opponents who have managed to insulate themselves from death by combat damage.

Utility

Swiftfoot Boots, Champion's Helm, Goblin Chirurgeon, and three ways to tutor up Chirurgeon provide protection for Zada to ensure you get to untap with her.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.17
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dwarf 1/1 R, Elemental 1/1 R, Elemental 1/1 R w/ Haste, Goblin 1/1 R, Human 1/1 R, Treasure
Folders	interrest, Other people's decks, Interesting decks