Super Ultra Budget Zaxara

Commander / EDH* Budget BUG (Sultai)

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Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 5x Island
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls

Artifact (6)

• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bred for the Hunt
• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Font of Fertility
• 1x Primal Empathy
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Creature (20)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Embodiment of Spring
• 1x Endless One
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Feral Hydra
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gadwick, the Wizened
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Battle at the Bridge
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Distorting Wake
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Find / Finality
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Mind Spring
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Villainous Wealth

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Condescend
• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Death Wind
• 1x Disembowel
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Ertai's Meddling
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Molder
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Syncopate
• 1x Thassa's Intervention

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

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Sideboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Wurmcalling

Land (1)

• 1x Dimir Guildgate

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Verity Circle

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Maybeboard

Land (21)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Woodland Stream

Creature (12)

• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Heroes' Bane
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Maga, Traitor to Mortals
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Mistcutter Hydra
• 1x Protean Hydra
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Vastwood Hydra
• 1x Voracious Hydra

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Finale of Eternity
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Kodama's Reach

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Instant (7)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Sultai Charm

Artifact (6)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo

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A new deck for 100+29 Commander.

A lot of inspiration comes from this deck Zaxara, the Exemplary (1DH) from BudgetCommander1. Thank you! :-)

REMARKS FOR MYSELF:

• Titans' Nest - ADD!
• Bred for the Hunt / Verity Circle / Syphon Mind ??? - it's hard choice ..
• Deepglow Skate - could be fun :)

Maybe:

• Dimir Machinations / Drift of Phantasms / Shred Memory / Perplex / Dimir Infiltrator - tutors ! (transmute, but still ..)
• Clash of Wills - X counterspell
• Enshrined Memories
• Logic Knot - x counterspell with Delve
• Zameck Guildmage - card draw + +1/+1 counters
• Dominate - X steal spell (x1UU)
• Skatewing Spy - all creatures with +1/+1 get flying
• Wrap in Vigor - protection (but not X spell)
• Syphon Mind - card draw & Disruption => bigger card advantage! :-)
• Epiphany at the Drownyard - X spell - card draw w Instant speed
• Hydra's Growth - make one creature bigger and bigger
• Open Into Wonder - X spell Evasion + card draw
• Icy Blast - X spell Tap x creatures
• Wildest Dreams - Recursion with X
• Repeal X spell removal (return to hand ..)
• Disrupting Shoal - X counterspell
• Entrancing Melody - X spell steal .. :)

MUST FIT IN:

Mana!

• Wilderness Reclamation

Removals:

• Repeal (return to hand ..)
• Curse of the Swine - removal with X
• Primal Might - removal + boost + X spell ! :)
• Stolen by the Fae - return to hand + make some tokens! :-)

Counterspells:

• Clash of Wills
• Logic Knot - counterspell with X and Delve

Card Advantage:

• Uncage the Menagerie - tutor + card advantage
• Zameck Guildmage
• Bounty of the Luxa - 4CMC is a lot, but ..

Considering to fit in:

MUST!:

• Skatewing Spy - Flying for (almost) everybody. :)
• Incubation / Incongruity - Card Advantage / Removal
• Parcelbeast - card draw / ramp
• Nissa, Steward of Elements - card draw, scry
• Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• Wildest Dreams - Recursion with X
• Diplomatic Immunity - protection

Damage:

• Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord - sac token hydras for profit ..

Counterspells:

• Power Sink - !! :-)
• Disrupting Shoal
• Spell Blast
• Tale's End

Removal:

• Gaze of Granite
• Nylea's Intervention - find X lands or ...

Card draw:

• Blue Sun's Zenith
• Give / Take - Card draw!
• Momentous Fall
• Bident of Thassa
• Llanowar Visionary
• Bred for the Hunt - repeatable draw

Protection:

• Wrap in Vigor

Ramp:

• Animist's Awakening - ramp with X!
• Mana Bloom - ramp with X!

Utility:

• Golgari Charm - removal / protection
• Simic Charm - removal / protection / booost
• Dimir Charm - removal / counterspell / disruption

Others:

• Deadly Tempest - wrath
• Cazur, Ruthless Stalker   + Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
• Narset, Parter of Veils - stax + card advantage
• Everflowing Chalice
• Rhonas's Monument
• Elves of Deep Shadow
• Tidal Barracuda
• Ivy Elemental
• Invigorating Surge
• Profane Command
• Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• Mistcutter Hydra
• Zameck Guildmage
• Capricopian
• Open Into Wonder - Evasion w X
• Hydra's Growth - KKND!

Not used:

• Garruk's Uprising - unfortunately not triggered by hydra tokens :-(

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 3 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Hydra 0/0 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G, Wurm */* G
Folders	Super Ultra Budget