Zirda, the dawnwaker

Duel Commander Combo Control Exile Indestructible Prison Protection RW (Boros)

Zuzur

Land (33)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Needle Spires
• 1x Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip
• 7x Plains
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Demonfire
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fireball
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant

Instant (18)

• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Argivian Find
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Wear / Tear

Artifact (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Diviner's Wand
• 1x Goblin Cannon
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Retrofitter Foundry
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Tangle Wire

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Recruiter
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Merchant of the Vale
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Prismite
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Restoration Specialist
• 1x Shepherd of the Flock
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Underworld Breach

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This deck aims to get and keep control of the game in order to launch one of the many combos in there. Combo is started with Basalt Monolith . Zirda's passive reduce the ability of Untap to (1), so it creates infinite colorless mana.

To setup these, a balance between protections, recursivity, tutors, draw, control and prison was needed. Following this list :

Protections and Recursivity :

• Giver of Runes
• Mother of Runes
• Shepherd of the Flock
• Apostle's Blessing
• Rebuff the Wicked
• Sejiri Shelter  
• Lightning Greaves
• Sevinne's Reclamation
• Buried Ruin
• Underworld Breach
• Goblin Welder
• Argivian Find
• Teferi's Protection
• Flawless Maneuver
• Restoration Specialist
• Grand Abolisher
• Boros Charm

Tutors :

• Gamble
• Enlightened Tutor
• Weathered Wayfarer
• Inventors' Fair
• Goblin Engineer
• Goblin Recruiter
• Open the Armory
• Steelshaper's Gift
• Citanul Flute
• Ring of Three Wishes
• Sunforger
• Recruiter of the Guard

Draw : - * Faithless Looting - * Valakut Awakening   - * Merchant of the Vale - * Diviner's Wand - * Scroll Rack - * Jeska's Will

Control / Prison:

• Archon of Emeria
• Generous Gift
• Tangle Wire
• Red Elemental Blast
• Pyroblast
• Blood Moon
• Static Orb
• Meekstone
• Banishing Light
• Skyclave Apparition
• Swords to Plowshares
• Path to Exile
• Lightning Helix
• Lightning Bolt
• Silence
• Wear / Tear
• Celestial Purge
• Ghostly Prison

Rest of the deck is based around blasting the opponent with X spells, or create a wincon with infinite colorless (or colorfull if we find Prismite ) mana such as Banefire , Mirror Entity or even Retrofitter Foundry

It has several gameplans. You can either play the midrange/control way and not even trying to search for your Monolithe (even though it is more powerfull if you go for it) because several cards are strong by themselves and you can find big direct answers with Sunforger . Or go with traditionnal Combos way

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.13
Tokens	Construct 4/4 C, Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Illusion */* U, On an Adventure, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C