Zada, Miracle Worker

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Mono-Red Storm

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Creature (24)

• 1x Anax, Hardened in the Forge
• 1x Ashling, Flame Dancer
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Cavalier of Flame
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Hanweir Garrison  ^Meld
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Loyal Apprentice
• 1x Mirrorwing Dragon
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Pinnacle Monk  ^Flip
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Stormsplitter
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Young Pyromancer
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip
• 1x Underworld Breach

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Dwarven Mine
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 12x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (13)

• 1x Battle Hymn
• 1x Blazing Crescendo
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Flick a Coin
• 1x Spawning Breath
• 1x Stun
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Electroduplicate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Haze of Rage
• 1x Hordeling Outburst
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Kick in the Door
• 1x Molten Duplication
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Reality Scramble
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Sundering Eruption  ^Flip
• 1x Traitorous Greed
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Vandalblast

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Koth of the Hammer

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Instant (4)

• 1x Downhill Charge
• 1x Flare of Duplication
• 1x Spawning Breath
• 1x Turn Inside Out

Land (1)

• 1x Arena of Glory

Creature (2)

• 1x Fury
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Highway Robbery
• 1x Involuntary Employment

Artifact (2)

• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power

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Card choices:

Lands: Show

-Snow-Covered Mountain: Basics. These can be replaced with regular Mountains for less expense; it isn't all that detrimental to the deck to do so. I like to use a copy of Scrying Sheets as an additional way to get the lands off the top of the deck that we don't want to be there, something that can't be done with normal Mountains.

-Ancient Tomb, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx: Lands that, in some shape or form, produce more than one mana. Acceleration is important; being able to cast multiple pumps/anthems in combat is essential to victory.

-Arid Mesa, Ash Barrens, Bloodstained Mire, Fabled Passage, Prismatic Vista, Scalding Tarn, Scrying Sheets, Wooded Foothills: Deck-thinning lands. You need to get to the meat of your spells as quickly as possible. These lands assist with that, as well as being a shuffle effect if you need it.

-Forgotten Cave: The only cycling land in this deck. Other cycling lands that cost more to cycle like Smoldering Crater and Desert of the Fervent have been cut.

-Command Beacon: Zada is crucial to the gameplan. If Zada isn't in play, we most likely lose. If she dies, take off the general tax and re-cast her from the hand.

-Blast Zone: If the game is going well, this is just a colorless land. But if there's a troublesome permanent in play, this land will be a safe, if slow, method of removing it. This goes especially for enchantments, as this deck struggles to remove them outside of Chaos Warp.

-Scavenger Grounds: Similar to Blast Zone, being a colorless utility land that does more only when you desperately need graveyards gone. This unfortunately affects your graveyard as well, neutering cards like Finale of Promise, Past in Flames, and Underworld Breach. But this deck doesn't require the graveyard to function, and it can hardly afford the space anywhere else in the 99 for graveyard hate.

-Hanweir Battlements  : Haste is red. Haste is good. Give some haste.

-Dwarven Mine, Kher Keep, Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance, Urza's Saga: Lands that make bodies. Going wide is the name of the game. When you just can't find token producers, these lands keeps the plan rolling. Dwarven Mine has the benefit of being fetchable, and Urza's Saga can search the library for mana rocks, or for Skullclamp for some repeatable card draw.

-Reliquary Tower: With the mass amount of card draw possible here, why not?

The amount of lands that enter tapped is kept to an absolute minimum, increased only by MDFC spell lands from Zendikar Rising.

Creatures: Show

-Cavalier of Flame, Combat Celebrant, Hellrider, Purphoros, God of the Forge, Urabrask the Hidden: Buff the team. The average power of our creatures is fairly low, so making them more threatening individually is helpful when Zada's trigger isn't enough to win. Urabrask also gives us more time to set up our win.

-Cavalier of Flame, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Seasoned Pyromancer: Creatures with card selection attached. Zada is incredibly picky over what types of cards are needed in a specific order. These cards help you get through the chaff.

-Hanweir Garrison  , Loyal Apprentice, Seasoned Pyromancer, Young Pyromancer: Token-producing bodies. It is always more effective to copy pump spells with Zada over to several smaller bodies, rather than one or two large ones. Melding into Hanweir, the Writhing Township     doesn't happen often, but both cards are valuable enough in the deck to have the possibility available.

-Birgi, God of Storytelling  , Dockside Extortionist, Goldspan Dragon, Ornithopter of Paradise, Runaway Steam-Kin, Storm-Kiln Artist, Treasonous Ogre: Ramping and rituals. Most instants and sorceries that produce mana have been cut in favor of creatures that provide more targets for Zada triggers. Birgi's alternate face, Harnfel, Horn of Bounty  , is too expensive for what it does, and is almost never cast except in the rare case when we need card selection over mana.

-Combat Celebrant, Dualcaster Mage, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Purphoros, God of the Forge, Storm-Kiln Artist, Zealous Conscripts: Combo creatures. Rounding out the creature package with several paths to an infinite.

-Anax, Hardened in the Forge: Boardwipe protection. Allows you to recast Zada post-Wrath into a board still populated with tokens.

-Imperial Recruiter: There are so many viable targets here to tutor to hand. Recruiter excels at finding that last piece needed to take over the game.

-Mirrorwing Dragon: Zada 2.0. When Zada gets too expensive to recast after being removed multiple times, we have a backup. Dissuades spot removal.

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Sorceries: Show

Artifacts: Show

Enchantments: Show

-Blood Moon: Makes it more difficult for opponents to interact and break up our gameplan. This list has many nonbasic lands that get shut off by Blood Moon, but its never so detrimental as to make the deck unplayable.

-Underworld Breach: Usually used in a similar fashion to Past in Flames, but is also the only way we can rebuy creatures or other permanents from the graveyard.

Planeswalkers: Show

-Chandra: Any Chandra planeswalker that we want has to align with the deck's goals very well, in order to justify its inclusion over other token producers or pump spells. Chandra, Torch of Defiance is good here, generating both card advantage and mana accelerating with either +1 ability. The ability to kill decently-sized creatures or ping to the face is nice, but not typically used unless in extreme situations (or if the first +1 hits a land or something). Lastly, we rarely get to use her emblem, but if it ever does come down, the cantrips we use combined with the extra burn will usually end the game.

-Koth: Koth of the Hammer is a bomb, when set up correctly. The most used ability is the -2, which typically provides us with all the {R} we need to end the game that turn. The +1 is good for getting some extra value out of cantrips, as the copies bouncing from Zada will hit the Elemental-ized land as well. The emblem is more of a failsafe than anything, providing inevitability as a safe form of damage. Combining it with a Blood Moon is an excellent lock against decks that heavily rely on nonbasic lands.

Originally suggested by ComradeJim270 as part of an EDH deckbuilding challenge I posted on the Forums section. I have experimented and adapted this deck for several years.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Dungeon: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation, Dwarf 1/1 R, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 1/1 R, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Koth of the Hammer, Goblin 1/1 R, Goblin Shaman, Human 1/1 R, Kobold 0/1 R, Satyr 1/1 R, Skeleton 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 C, The Atropal, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Ideas & Inspiration, Primers