Zedruu, Approaching Greatness

Commander / EDH Control Multiplayer RUW (Jeskai, America) Team America

jcarreno

Land (36)

• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 8x Island
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 5x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Delaying Shield
• 1x Eyes Everywhere
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oath of Lieges
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Instant (19)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Shifting Borders
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wear / Tear

Creature (14)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vedalken Plotter

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Donate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Huddle Up
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Political Trickery
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Role Reversal
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Time Wipe
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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Enchantment (26)

• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Dovescape
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Induced Amnesia
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mana Maze
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Sacred Mesa
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Spiritual Asylum
• 1x Stasis Snare
• 1x Vicious Shadows
• 1x Wild Research

Instant (14)

• 1x Benevolent Offering
• 1x Crush Contraband
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Master Warcraft
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Reverse the Sands
• 1x Time Reversal

Land (5)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Shivan Reef

Artifact (11)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Victory Chimes

Creature (10)

• 1x Arcane Artisan
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Guile
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Reckless Scholar
• 1x The Locust God

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Jace Beleren

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Zedruu Politic/Control

Zedruu has always intrigued me as both a deck building and piloting challenge. We want to set up Zedruu as a draw engine and potential win condition for the deck by using spell that either let us exchange lands or donate a land. We should try to exchange the same basic land where possible or maybe help someone with fixing but not hurting our own. This is also why we are running a high number of basic lands and leaning more on ramp that finds us lands. I picked lands because in my meta there isn't much mass land destruction and any targeted land destruction is usually reserved for bigger problems like Cabal Coffers . Lands also dodge most board wipes and most decks don't run sac outlets that can target lands. If there is deck that does this, we may want to avoid giving them lands. In the early game, we should try to sit back as much as possible and let other people duke it out for a couple turns. Then in the mid game, we should try to make an ally that we can try to help by giving them card draw, mana, or spending removal/counterspell that would benefit both of you. In the end game, when it is just you and your "ally" left, we can close out the game using Approach of the Second Sun , Aetherflux Reservoir , or one of the Niv-Mizzets.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elephant 3/3 G, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Gold, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Deck Ideas
Based on	Zedruu's Enchanted Fortress jcarreno EDH