cheap Zur.

Commander / EDH* Budget Enchantment Land Destruction WUB (Esper)

justinclarkv1

Creature (19)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Archetype of Courage
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Boonweaver Giant
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Eidolon of Countless Battles
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Meddling Mage
• 1x Sen Triplets
• 1x Soul of Theros
• 1x Sovereigns of Lost Alara
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
• 1x Umbra Mystic

Land (40)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 11x Island
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 11x Plains
• 1x Salt Marsh
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Transguild Promenade

Enchantment (24)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Arrest
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity
• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Engineered Plague
• 1x Ethereal Armor
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Seal of Doom
• 1x Soul Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Steel of the Godhead
• 1x Story Circle
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Unquestioned Authority
• 1x Vanishing

Artifact (5)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spear of Heliod
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (10)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Consume the Meek
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nullify
• 1x Second Sunrise

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Winds of Rath

Commander (1)

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Creature (8)

• 1x Archetype of Finality
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Harvestguard Alseids
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Silent Sentinel
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Vortex Elemental

Land (1)

• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Armament of Nyx
• 1x Celestial Mantle
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Waste Not

Artifact (1)

• 1x Quicksilver Amulet

Instant (1)

• 1x Sudden Spoiling

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Vindicate

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A basic (cheap) Zur deck, mostly set up for 1v1's, I want to play a lot safer than most, throwing in some more strong walls and late game combo's. Also planning on using almost exclusively basic lands and a "back to basics" to punish players who use too many non-basic lands. It also has some tools to halt/stop land (the contaminate/bitterblossom combo vs non-black or artifact decks and early game mana vortex for example). Lots of delay/prevention tactics.

Arcane laboratory and Rule of law should both be very helpful to stop control based decks, and will allow me to continue to search every turn.

I also want tools to dismantle just about every kind of deck, like grafdigger's cage and RIP for graveyard based (trying to find some solid enchantments to replace that) and underworld dreams for blue counter/draw decks, more/better counters to particular decks are always welcome.

As for protecting Zur, I think swiftfoot boots , steel of godhead (gives Zur +2/+2 lifelink and unblockable), shadow lance (would love some better alternatives to this one, especially 3 mana FS + something else enchantments), Infiltrators Magemark

I would like some more enchantments to protect everything like Greater Auramancy does.

Ghostly Prison and Propaganda I have mixed feelings about, on one hand they're both great at controlling decks if they're low on mana, but this is EDH, and while my deck does cut a lot of players access to mana, I think there might be better options of preventing attacks besides them.

Engineered plague will do great at shutting down decks designed to blow up decks designed to get absurd amounts of small creatures.

I need a lot more black to balance out this deck though, especially because I want nearly identical white/blue/black land ratio to get Zur out ASAP and consistently.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	104
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W