Blue Sun's Zenith

Instant

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

SaberTech on Zaxara, Exemplify Winning *Primer*

5 months ago

Blue Sun's Zenith has performed well for me in my list. I use it as a secondary win condition if Thassa's OracleGC isn't an option for some reason. You can draw your deck with the Zenith and then it puts itself back as the only card in your library. You can then cast something like Gretchen Titchwillow or Spectral Sailor to draw it again. Cast the Zenith targeting an opponent to deck them out, put it back into your library, draw it again with your creature, rinse and repeat until you win.

I gave up on running cards like Exsanguinate or Villainous Wealth because they weren't that useful in the first few turns, while X cost draw spells at least helped me get closer to my combo pieces. If I did get my combo then the X cost draw spells essentially win the game for me as well, it just takes a few more steps to finish the game.

SaberTech on Zaxara, Exemplify Winning *Primer*

5 months ago

I was wondering what you usually use Whir of Invention to tutor up? I can see Midnight Clock as an option but almost all your other artifacts are mana rocks. You could run a cheaper spell like Nature's Lore instead if you are mostly using the Whir for ramping, or maybe the slot could be Blue Sun's Zenith if you want the slot to still be an X cost spell.

psionictemplar on Balaam__'s Challenge: Get Twisted

9 months ago

Well the thing about the cryptic/Sanctuary lock is that you return sanctuary so it always comes in untapped.

Putting that aside though I dont think snapcaster will be of much help to you, at least not in the normal play patterns it commonly sees. You pretty much want to save it as a counter grabber as needed.

Going back to your high tides, I just dont see the value. You have to use 1 land to cast and then 3 more lands to get eon hub into play which only saves 1 land over casting it normally. Rewind makes it slightly better because you could have extra mana for after, but then you need something like a Blue Sun's Zenith to sink it into. Instead of high tide what about Extraplanar Lens instead? It still helps ramp and can help every turn?

Flarhoon13 on Kruphix's Fantastic Elastic Mighty Morphin Machine

1 year ago

Nov 1 Kruphix's Fantastic Elastic Mighty Morphin Machine won a 5 player custom game. It was pretty much a shutout. Kurtis on Alania, Divergent Storm was the knight and I the King. We dominated. He kept gifting me and Kruphix got Seedborn Muse. We shut them down. I was able to get infinite mana and card draw, drawing Rob out with Blue Sun's Zenith. Rob was about to control me during my combat. Kurtis had eliminated the other two players.

Flarhoon13 on Flarhoon13

1 year ago

May 3, 2024, I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

Aug 22

Treasure Chest

Omnath (decklist not uploaded) won another epic game. I dropped an early Mana Flare. Will used Sovereign Okinec Ahau to threaten Ben who retaliated to kill his dad with his commander Kalamax, the Stormsire. I untapped once with Omnath, which was enough for Blue Sun's Zenith for 12ish, even though he was killed in my upkeep lol. Win brings my record to 23-26-1 for a .469 win percentage

Flarhoon13 on Kaervek the Merciless, Vampires & Doomsday Demons

1 year ago

May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

May 31

Kaervek the Merciless, Vampires & Doomsday Demons loss 8-8 I went for it but vs two blue decks with open mana and I paid the ultimate price. Had Bloodletter of Aclazotz out, cast Rune-Scarred Demon and got Demonic Consultation since I had Mirror of Fate in hand. Consulted for Fraying Omnipotence but that exiled all but three cards of my deck. Cast a five drop demon but the Fraying Omnipotence ate a counter. Blaine's Blue Sun's Zenith finished me off.

Before I had started this play through of my decks, I had gotten a turn 4 win with Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Fraying Omnipotence against these very same opponents in a game last year, tied for fastest victory of any of my decks. Turn one Sol Ring, turn 2 Demonic Tutor, turn 3 played the tutor target, Bloodletter of Aclazotz and turn 4 Fraying Omnipotence ended the game. Kind of. The table just kept playing out the game so Kurtis could show off Ovika, Enigma Goliath's crazy tricks.

ANXI3TY on Merfolk

1 year ago

It goes pretty fast, definitley one of my fastest aggro decks! I use to play modern merfolk years ago, so the fish are special to me.

Probably going to add: Strix Serenade and Flare of Denial removing the Aether Vial and Blue Sun's Zenith.

Vial was really nice in modern, but if you don't have it out early it doesn't have much value in EDH.

I found playing the counterspells while having Lullmage Mentor and Vodalian Hexcatcher is sweet for control.

AThiccNacho on Say Hy(dra) to Your Grandma For Me

1 year ago

I would very much recommend:

Garruk's Uprising as it gives you trample for the big bois, can cantrip AND gives you draw power on ETB. If you cast a hydra with {X} > 3, you get to draw 2 cards, assuming Zaxara is on the field.

Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner Gives you ramp AND ETB triggers. Same as G's Uprising above.

Elemental Bond Have you noticed a pattern yet? More expensive than the others because of the Power 3 trigger vs 4; but still a really sick card to have.

Simic Ascendancy Alternate wincon and pretty easy to get twice {X} since, if a hydra enters with 6 counters, you get 12 if you control Zaxara due to the token getting the +1/+1 counters.

Open Into Wonder Straight up ends the game if a creature is big or your board state went unchecked for too long. Won me plenty of games. If it can't end the game, you can still draw plenty of cards to play on main phase 2.

Finale of Revelation Essentially just an X draw but with additional benefits for going all in. Obviously, Zaxara is needed to get a 10/10, but it's way better than Even the Score; the extra 2 cards drawn is meh and you lift the 4 card restriction. Blue Sun's Zenith is technically better being at instant speed, but you get WAY more value in EDH out of Finale, especially with mana doublers/triplers.

Herald of Secret Streams A more $$ card, but makes your creature with +1/+1 unblockable; usually allows you to kill 1 or 2 players that turn and end the game if it goes unanswered, buying your other threats more time.

Curse of the Swine To exile high prio threats. Giving opponents 2/2 creatures doesn't matter. Gets around indestructible or creatures that are overly powerful such as voltron creatures. I would honestly swap this for Spinning Wheel Kick as that relies heavily on your commander; which Zaxara is already a high prio target.

Those are all the suggestions i have for budget; most of the others i'd make for budget are counter spells. My Zaxara deck should be on my profile if you're interested in higher $$ cards.