Nahiri's Devastation ft. Zirda the Dawnwaker

Commander / EDH Stoneblade Tokens Vorthos Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Tsal

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact Swarm (3)

• 1x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Tutors (3)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Kaho, Minamo Historian
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic

Weapons (14)

• 1x Battlemage's Bracers
• 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip
• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Mace of the Valiant
• 1x Moonsilver Spear
• 1x Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients
• 1x Nahiri, Storm of Stone
• 1x Nahiri, the Lithomancer
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice

Ramp (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Dalakos, Crafter of Wonders
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Raugrin Crystal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Board Wipes (5)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Sweltering Suns

Infinite Colourless (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x North Star

Blanket Buffs (3)

• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Steel Overseer

Protection and Recursion (2)

• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Nahiri's Machinations

Commander (1)

Companion (1)

Blink (Protection) (9)

• 1x Astral Drift
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Semester's End
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Draw (5)

• 1x Impulse
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Removal (4)

• 1x Declaration in Stone
• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wear / Tear

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Sideboard

Waking the Dawn (2)

• 1x Nahiri, Storm of Stone
• 1x Zirda, the Dawnwaker

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Maybeboard

Other (1)

• 1x Dispatch

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Note to the reader:

If you want a more proper blurb about how this deck works, drop me a comment and I'll write something up nice for you as soon as I can.

My builds go through continuous change and upgrades with each new set and it is a big effort to keep track of all changes across all my decks.

Motivation - Comments about my Commander and Meta

As far as deck-building goes I am told this was my Everest. Building a competent deck while under the Zirda, the Dawnwaker's companion restriction was a massive challenge. I was also trying to include as many Nahiri based cards in the deck as reasonably allowable to tell her story.

With the heavy artifact focus, Breya, Etherium Shaper became the commander of choice. One thing I learned really quickly about Breya is that she LOOOVES to go infinite. You so much as look at her funny and she'll go infinite. I enjoyed reading Kai-Erik's Breya, Ghost in the Shell OVER 65 INFINITE COMBOS which has many infinite combos. I bet he could double that by adding Zirda, the Dawnwaker into the 99. I was also really impressed by Coumie's [cEDH Primer] Breya the Malevolent which shows how Breya can be pushed to the next level of competitive play. Looking at both for inspiration and testing them out, I soon found that Breya is just too darn powerful! At least for my local meta. Any time you get infinite coloured mana, you instantly win which got really boring when my opponents could do nothing to stall it. So I scaled it back.

As such, there are no infinite coloured mana combos in this deck. I only allow infinite colourless mana.

This deck turned out to be a Nahiri Vorthos deck with lots of equipment spells, cycling spells, and blink etb thopter generators. The allows me to remove all generic costs from spells, cycle for free, and cast and equip weapons for free which is plenty powerful but not instant death. I think the only instant death combo in the deck is to pump into Xantcha, Sleeper Agent.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 1 Rares 15 - 1 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Clue, Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Kor Soldier 1/1 W, Kor Warrior 1/1 W, Shark X/X U, Stoneforged Blade, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U
Folders	Planeswalker Centric