Zirda Throws a Hammer

Commander / EDH Budget Casual RW (Boros) Toolbox

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Instant (27)

• 1x Blacksmith's Skill
• 1x Mana Tithe
• 1x Burnout
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Hallowed Moonlight
• 1x Illumination
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Valorous Stance
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Survive the Night
• 1x Wing Shards
• 1x Wyll's Reversal
• 1x Big Score
• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Crush Contraband
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Heartwarming Redemption
• 1x Hidetsugu's Second Rite
• 1x Patrician's Scorn
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Violent Eruption
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Austere Command

Land (36)

• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crawling Barrens
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Lorehold Campus
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Needle Spires
• 12x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rustvale Bridge
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum

Artifact (14)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Cranial Archive
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Battlemage's Bracers
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Fervent Champion
• 1x Auriok Steelshaper
• 1x Oread of Mountain's Blaze
• 1x Relic Seeker
• 1x Sun-Collared Raptor
• 1x Akiri, Fearless Voyager
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Inner-Flame Igniter
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Merchant of the Vale
• 1x Reito Sentinel
• 1x Blaring Recruiter
• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Sun Titan

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Fighter Class
• 1x Forging the Tyrite Sword
• 1x Mobilization
• 1x Sacred Mesa

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Maybeboard

Instant (35)

• 1x Argivian Find
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Isolate
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Abrade
• 1x Angelsong
• 1x Aurelia's Fury
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Dual Strike
• 1x Due Respect
• 1x Gilded Light
• 1x Humble
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Reroute
• 1x Shredded Sails
• 1x Thraben Exorcism
• 1x Unexpectedly Absent
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dispense Justice
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Lightning Storm
• 1x Rally the Peasants
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x Second Sunrise
• 1x Soul Sear
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Into the Core
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Scour
• 1x Smashing Success
• 1x Tears of Rage
• 1x True Love's Kiss
• 1x War Flare

Land (8)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 1x Mistveil Plains

Creature (24)

• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Oswald Fiddlebender
• 1x Sunhome Guildmage
• 1x Hedron-Field Purists
• 1x Prava of the Steel Legion
• 1x Verge Rangers
• 1x Auriok Salvagers
• 1x Hundred-Handed One
• 1x Kabira Vindicator
• 1x Osgir, the Reconstructor
• 1x Signpost Scarecrow
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Firemane Angel
• 1x Ruin Grinder
• 1x Sanctuary Smasher
• 1x Screeching Phoenix
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Soul of Shandalar
• 1x Soul of Theros
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Angel of the Ruins
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Sojourner's Companion

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Flame Blitz
• 1x Gerrard's Battle Cry
• 1x Gryff's Boon
• 1x Paladin Class
• 1x Quest for the Holy Relic
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Echoes of the Kin Tree
• 1x Skyblade's Boon
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x Experimental Frenzy

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger

Artifact (21)

• 1x Blinding Powder
• 1x Brainstone
• 1x Brittle Effigy
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Liar's Pendulum
• 1x Pyramid of the Pantheon
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Seraphic Greatsword
• 1x Urza's Tome
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Bonder's Ornament
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Magnifying Glass
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Gemstone Array
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Predator, Flagship
• 1x Loreseeker's Stone

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Fireball
• 1x Oust
• 1x Basri's Solidarity
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Declaration in Stone
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Rip Apart
• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Seize the Spoils
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Decree of Justice
• 1x Excavation Technique
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Late to Dinner
• 1x Path of Peace
• 1x Reconstruct History
• 1x Refurbish
• 1x Throes of Chaos

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This is a deck about a fox picking up and throwing a hammer over and over.

It's my take on a Zirda Sunforger deck. By the way, I'm very surprised that Sunforger isn't a hub on tapped out. This deck is very focused on tutoring up Sunforger and equipping it for cheap using Zirda's cost reduction ability, and using a selection of instants in the deck as a toolbox to respond to any situation I might find myself in. There are many ways to defend Zirda and my other permanents in this deck such as Lapse of Certainty, as well as plenty of removal for any kind of permanent. I think the real stars in this deck are the really specific answers that you wouldn't normally see in other decks, like Patrician's Scorn and Wild Ricochet. These cards aren't usually useful, but Sunforger can bring them out when it's the perfect moment for them. One of my favorite cards in this deck is Hidetsugu's Second Rite, which can be set up with Violent Eruption fairly easily once an opponent gets low enough. Having all of these cards that are only good in highly specific situations comes at a cost though, since you could just draw them when you don't want to. For this reason I have plenty of ways to throw these cards away such as Merchant of the Vale and Oread of Mountain's Blaze. There are even effects like this that Sunforger can bring out such as Fateful Showdown and Heartwarming Redemption.

Now, since I'm casting and discarding these instants all the time, I'll end up with a lot of cards in my graveyard that I'd rather have in my library. Because of this there are a few cards that move stuff from the graveyard back to the library, like Elixir of Immortality and Cranial Archive. Reito Lantern is an especially effective example of these because it sticks around on the battlefield and can be activated for only one mana thanks to Zirda.

Although there are a few ways to win with Sunforger alone, I don't expect it to be the usual win condition for the deck. I've included many ways to fill up the board with tokens like Blaring Recruiter, Mobilization, and Sacred Mesa. Thanks to Zirda, these tokens can be generated very efficiently and boosted using Inner-Flame Igniter and Tears of Rage. Sun-Collared Raptor and Captivating Crew are some other options for winning the game all on their own with the help of Zirda.

I decided it would be easier if I just didn't include ways to instantly win the game with infinite damage, and so I didn't see any point in including Basalt Monolith in the deck even though it's best friends with Zirda. I might go back on that decision since infinite mana is just so enticing.

This deck has never been playtested. As always I am very open to suggestions. Thanks for reading!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, On an Adventure, Pegasus 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W