Zedruu, Architect of Da City

Commander / EDH* Casual Group Hug Pillow Fort RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mercadian Bazaar
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 6x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Saprazzan Cove
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Walls (8)

• 1x Alabaster Wall
• 1x Crenellated Wall
• 1x Dazzling Ramparts
• 1x Fortified Rampart
• 1x Mobile Fort
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Walking Wall
• 1x Wall of Stone

Trade (20)

• 1x Aradara Express
• 1x Balloon Peddler
• 1x Bargaining Table
• 1x Bazaar of Wonders
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Bomat Bazaar Barge
• 1x Cornered Market
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Renegade Freighter
• 1x Rishadan Pawnshop
• 1x Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII
• 1x Sleek Schooner
• 1x Stolen Goods
• 1x Trade Routes
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Venser's Journal

Other (11)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Army (4)

• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Hanweir Garrison  ^Meld
• 1x Hanweir Militia Captain  ^Flip
• 1x Hero of Bladehold

Commander (1)

Politics (14)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Assembly Hall
• 1x Azor's Elocutors
• 1x Council of the Absolute
• 1x Customs Depot
• 1x Droning Bureaucrats
• 1x Hanna, Ship's Navigator
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Political Trickery
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Statecraft
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vedalken Plotter

Mana Rocks (6)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Other (12)

• 1x Amulet of Kroog
• 1x Eon Hub
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Meddling Mage
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mystic Decree
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Oath of Lieges
• 1x Ring of Renewal
• 1x Stone Calendar
• 1x Sunscape Familiar

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"We need to build a wall!" - Zedruu

The goal of this deck is to construct a city within a game of Magic. We don't usually win. We don't try to win (unless our opponent is simulating a Mongol horde of some kind). We just want to peacefully build our city and bribe the table to not hit us in the meantime.

I am playing intentionally terrible cards because they fit a theme. I am playing a $15 colorless land because it fits the theme. Assembly hall is a 5 mana do nothing ever artifact. But it's an assembly hall, so we play it.

We have win conditions because there may be games we need to call upon our legion of soldiers to defend the city. We have merchants and valuable artifacts to pass around the table. We have walls to pass to other players to "incorporate" their territory. We have political bureaucrats that develop the city and make rules on what people can do. We can even attempt to filibuster the table and win sheerly through non-productivity. We have ships and trains to send to other people's boards and to bring them back with Homeward Path.

I have yet to put this deck together in paper, but it seems sweet. I am looking, right now, for feedback on potential cards I could include that are on-theme.

If anyone has suggestions for other cards to add to the deck, please comment them below. Thanks!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.50
Tokens	1/1 U Creature Camarid, Citizen 1/1 W, Goat 0/1 W, Goblin 1/1 R, Human 1/1 R, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W, Thrull 1/1 B
Folders	meme decks