The Right Way to Play Ziatora

Commander / EDH* BRG (Jund)

Blumaroo

Creature (39)

• 1x Archfiend of the Dross
• 1x Ayara, Widow of the Realm  ^Flip
• 1x Beast of Burden
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Glissa Sunslayer
• 1x Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1x Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1x Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 1x Juri, Master of the Revue
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Kresh the Bloodbraided
• 1x Kura, the Boundless Sky
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Nessian Boar
• 1x Neyith of the Dire Hunt
• 1x Old One Eye
• 1x Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver
• 1x Rivaz of the Claw
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Slimefoot and Squee
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Xorn
• 1x Yargle and Multani

Sorcery (28)

• 1x Act of Treason
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blood Money
• 1x Bloody Betrayal
• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Claim the Firstborn
• 1x Dredge the Mire
• 1x Ghouls' Night Out
• 1x Green Sun's Twilight
• 1x Hijack
• 1x Involuntary Employment
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Lose Calm
• 1x Mark of Mutiny
• 1x Mass Mutiny
• 2x Mob Rule
• 1x Mutiny
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Price of Loyalty
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Sinister Waltz
• 1x Torrent of Souls
• 1x Traitorous Blood
• 1x Traitorous Greed
• 1x Wrangle

Artifact (3)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Monster Manual

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Big Score
• 1x Black Sun's Twilight
• 1x Choose Your Weapon
• 1x Delirium
• 1x Fall of the Hammer
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Prizefight
• 1x Riveteers Charm
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Unleash Fury

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Fight Rigging
• 1x Frontier Siege
• 1x Next of Kin
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Emergent Woodwurm
• 1x Primeval Protector

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The main problem with Ziatora is having big creatures to launch at opponents' faces but no big creatures to block after you hit opponents for big damage. But what if you could hit an opponent with their own monsters? Enter Hijack-style cards. For three mana, piss off the entire play group by stealing their biggest creature, swinging their biggest creature at them, then hitting them again with Ziatora. Who needs blockers when your opponent's creatures are your attackers?

Then, when their monsters are in the graveyard, pull them out of the graveyard using your opponent's recursion spells. Black has a ton of strong graveyard enemy recursion and we're going to use our treasure boost and big spells to keep our board states nice and healthy while keeping the enemy sad.

This deck is my answer to my own Ziatora problem. It's fun to swing beefy-ass creatures at opponents for guaranteed damage and be paid for it, but your board state is easily the worst on the field. So I wanted to make a deck that keeps my board state healthy while depleting the enemy board state.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 3 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	89
Avg. CMC	4.04
Tokens	Blood, Copy Clone, Ogre 3/3 R, On an Adventure, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit */* G, Treasure, Tyranid 5/5 G