*RETIRED* The Trial of Zeal: Hazoret EDH

Commander / EDH* Burn Casual Discard Jank Mono-Red

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Enchantment (17)

• 1x AEther Flash
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Brand of Ill Omen
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Madcap Skills
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Shifting Shadow
• 1x Smoke
• 1x Spellshock
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Tectonic Instability
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Widespread Panic

Instant (11)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Boil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Lightning Axe
• 1x Omen of Fire
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Radiate
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Land (37)

• 37x Mountain

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x By Force
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Devastating Dreams
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Flamebreak
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grenzo's Rebuttal
• 1x Kindle the Carnage
• 1x Malevolent Whispers
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Pulverize
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wake of Destruction
• 1x Wild Swing

Creature (10)

• 1x Anje's Ravager
• 1x Avaricious Dragon
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Prophetic Flamespeaker
• 1x Stromkirk Occultist
• 1x Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1x Wrecking Ogre

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Dead-Iron Sledge
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Grafted Skullcap
• 1x Hot Soup
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x O-Naginata
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tenza, Godo's Maul
• 1x Uba Mask
• 1x Ward of Bones
• 1x Worldslayer

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra Ablaze
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

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Instant (31)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Carbonize
• 1x Chain of Plasma
• 2x Char
• 1x Combust
• 1x Fall of the Hammer
• 1x Fault Line
• 2x Fiery Temper
• 1x Flame Javelin
• 1x Hungry Flames
• 1x Hungry Flames
• 1x Impact Resonance
• 1x Lavaball Trap
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Magma Jet
• 1x Magmaquake
• 1x Savage Alliance
• 1x Searing Blaze
• 2x Searing Blood
• 1x Shard Volley
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Sudden Shock
• 1x Sulfurous Blast
• 2x Tears of Valakut
• 1x Thunderclap
• 1x Violent Eruption
• 1x Weight of Spires

Sorcery (14)

• 2x Cave-In
• 2x Chain Lightning
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Conflagrate
• 1x Distemper of the Blood
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Flamebreak
• 1x Incite Rebellion
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 2x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Subterranean Tremors

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Quest for Pure Flame
• 1x Spellshock
• 1x Taste for Mayhem

Creature (9)

• 1x Abbot of Keral Keep
• 1x Anger
• 1x Bomat Courier
• 1x Hammer Mage
• 1x Ire Shaman
• 1x Magus of the Scroll
• 1x Rakdos Pit Dragon
• 2x Satyr Firedancer

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ankh of Mishra
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Cursed Scroll
• 1x Dingus Staff
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Worldslayer

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Hazoret the Fervent is the goddess of ZEAL. No matter the odds, she and her followers will fight...but she requires complete and utter devotion to her cause. There are no half-measures in her Trials.

You fight, or you die. There is no middle ground.

Accordingly, there are no cushy concepts like "card advantage" or "subtlety" here. Leave that to the pesky Chicken God. This deck quickly and gleefully empties its hand as quickly as possible, both by casting burn spells like Lightning Bolt and by tossing cards to fuel spells like Firestorm .

To win a game, despite having no cards in hand after Turn 3? That requires an utter commitment to the ideal of Zeal. And only thusly shall you pass Hazoret's Trial and prove yourself among the Worthy.

Deck Strategy

I saw Hazoret and immediately decided I had to build her.

...After all, that art is too awesome not to use!

The card's strength...remains to be seen. She's certainly not a conventional commander.

The deck's goal is threefold - first, playing mono-red burn to give red some of the damage and removal that it sorely leaves.

Second, the deck plays a large number of discard outlets to both let Hazoret attack and to use as potent sources of removal - however, the deck is optimized to play with an empty hand by "drawing" cards with exile effects such as Prophetic Flamespeaker .

And finally, the deck plans to win by voltron and aggro damage if the burn damage can't close out the game.

The deck wins or loses very quickly. As stated above, this is not a deck for the tactful. But fearlessly throwing away your entire hand to go all-in on a Nahiri's Wrath or Devastating Dreams ? That's how EDH was meant to be played - with flair and passion.

I hope you enjoyed my deck - there will be one for each god on Amonkhet, stay tuned!

Hazoret is not a commander who lends herself easily to deckbuilding...but it's certainly an unorthodox and interesting deck!

If you like the deck, feel free to leave an upvote!

...to prove your Zeal!

(Cards that are marked as Spanish are cards that I currently own.)

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	110
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Ogre 4/4 R
Folders	Decks to Imitate, Commander/EDH, EDH, Decks to Playtest, Inspo