The Hacker Known as Zedruu

Commander / EDH Control RUW (Jeskai, America) Stax

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Land (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 8x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 6x Plains
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Steam Vents

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Celestial Dawn
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Douse
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Mask of Law and Grace
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Shield of Duty and Reason
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Thought Lash
• 1x Wrath of Marit Lage

Instant (19)

• 1x Alter Reality
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Glamerdye
• 1x Honorable Passage
• 1x Hydroblast
• 1x Magical Hack
• 1x Mind Bend
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Sleight of Mind
• 1x Spectral Shift
• 1x Sudden Substitution
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (11)

• 1x Alabaster Leech
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Blind Seer
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
• 1x Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Ruby Leech
• 1x Sapphire Leech
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Bubble Matrix
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Supreme Verdict

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Merchant Scroll

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Drought

Artifact (1)

• 1x Bubble Matrix

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Jank Zedruu stax deck designed around text changing mechanics like Magical Hack .

Give your friends a lovely leech with Zedruu or her eager apprentice and use a color hack like Sleight of Mind to change the leech's rules text. What? You have to pay one extra white mana for every green spell you cast in your Omnath, Locus of Rage deck? And you're not running any white mana in your gruul colors? Damn dude I'm sorry.

Use Celestial Dawn to fix your mana however you wish. If you play Blood Moon and then Celestial Dawn , the former's effect is asymmetrical thanks to janky layering rules. Decide you'd rather ruin someone's game instead of fix your mana? Float mana, land hack Celestial Dawn , and give it away . What's that? Your lands are all swamps and they can only pay for colorless costs? You mean you can't cast your spells anymore? Man that sucks my b.

Deck includes other color based interactions that you can change at your discretion in order to generate value tailored to any given situation i.e. Eight-and-a-Half-Tails , Llawan, Cephalid Empress , Douse , Hydroblast , etc.

Don't forget to donate symmetrical stax pieces like Meekstone and Rest in Peace to your opponents with Zedruu to buffer your life total and maintain card advantage while everyone else is shut down.

Also threw in some solid wincons to end everyone's misery. We've got several ways to mill our opponents to death with combos like Grindstone + Painter's Servant , Helm of Obedience + Rest in Peace , and Thought Lash + Zedruu the Greathearted . Alternatively, we can use these same tools to mill ourselves and win with Jace, Wielder of Mysteries or Thassa's Oracle .

Enjoy.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Grindstone + Painter's Servant Helm of Obedience + Rest in Peace Thought Lash + Zedruu the Greathearted
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Treasure
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