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Zacama, the Mana Doubler

Commander / EDH* Combo Ramp RGW (Naya)

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Commander: Zacama, Primal Calamity

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Key strategy is to have a mana doubler such as Mana Reflection, Mirari's Wake, Zendikar Resurgent or one of the other doubling effects. Together with Zacama they create a ton of mana. E.g. Tap your six lands to put twelve mana into your mana pool, pay nine of that floating mana to cast Zacama, then untap your lands. Leaving you with 15 possible mana for further shenanigans.

From here on we have some strategies to create even more mana, with creatures like Kor Skyfisher or Ancestral Statue to bounce back Zacama, only to recast her and netting us more mana. With Cloudstone Curio and another creature other then Zacama we can go infinite, same as with Panharmonicon and an etb-bounce-creature, which then bounces Zacama and itself.

What do we do with all that mana? Unfortunately, Zacama’s activated ability doesn’t deal damage to players, so we can’t simply deal infinite damage to the rest of the table. Still, we have a couple options. First, Zacama can grant us infinite life. That won’t win the game on its own, but it will certainly make it much harder to lose. Second, we can enlist the help of some handy artifacts.

Stuffy Doll for example. We can channel our infinite pool of mana into the Stuffy Doll, which will take out one of our enemies. Then we can use Temur Sabertooth to bounce the Doll back to our hand, recast it, and name a new opponent.

Alternatively, we can convert all our extra life into damage via the Aetherflux Reservoir. Simply casting and recasting Zacama several times will cause Aetherflux Reservoir to give us a lot of life, and on top of that, we can gain a ton with Zacama’s ability. Fifty life is usually a high price to pay, but not for this Elder Dinosaur.

Third way to ensure our win is with enchantments, that trigger upon creatures entering the battlefield like Warstorm Surge or Pandemonium. Casting, bouncing and recasting Zacama a few times will pump out a ton of damage directly to the face of our opponents.

Big props to Joseph Schulz on EDHREC

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