Zedruu's Foreign Policy

Commander / EDH* Control RUW (Jeskai, America) Stax

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Land (35)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 7x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 3x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Volcanic Island

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Smoke

Creature (16)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soulfire Grand Master
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vedalken Plotter
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Windborn Muse

Artifact (13)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Orb of Dreams
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Tsabo's Web

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Due Respect
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fire / Ice
• 1x Into the Core
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wear / Tear

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x End Hostilities
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

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Sideboard

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Tangle Wire

Creature (2)

• 1x Imposing Sovereign
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Instant (4)

• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Scatter to the Winds
• 1x Volcanic Fallout

Land (2)

• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Needle Spires

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Mana Maze

Sorcery (2)

• 1x End Hostilities
• 1x Planar Outburst

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Blood Sun
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Induced Amnesia
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Storm World
• 1x Waterknot

Artifact (2)

• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun

Creature (6)

• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Tilonalli's Summoner
• 1x Timestream Navigator

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ajani Vengeant
• 1x Ral Zarek
• 1x Saheeli Rai

Land (4)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream

Instant (4)

• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Glorious End
• 1x Into the Core
• 1x Leave / Chance

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Most of Zedruu's "Gifts" will neutrally affect the board and eventually we'll win when our opponents give up, get their lands blown up for the second time, or have to face a Karn Liberated who is about to ultimate with awesome setups like Static Orb, Sun Titan, Arid Mesa and maybe even Meekstone on the field. Other times we'll just exile all their garbage with Venser, the Sojourner.

About my list
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There are a few things you can do that will really mess up the list. Don't do these things:
1. Have less than 4 board wipes. Depending on Meta 5 is much better.
2. Have more than 7 planeswalkers if plaing Orb of Dreams and Static Orb. If you want to just run all of the Walkers then replace those with board wipes such as End Hostilities.
3. Don't play Volcanic Fallout unless you are facing Narset, Enlightened Master, Krenko, Mob Boss, Azami, Lady of Scrolls or Arcum Dagsson consistently.
4. DON'T play Tsabo's Web with both Needle Spires and Celestial Colonnade. If you want to play more than one special land then don't play this card.
5. DON'T play Smoke with more than one creature (for me Jace's Archivest) that needs to tap to function.

In the past the deck was able to use the same list for 1v1, 1v1v1, or 4+ player games. With the last 4 blocks that is no longer the case. Right now the deck is still trying to do well vs all these players but to be honest it's much stronger with 7 walkers. Running things like Ajani Vengeant is very good 1v1 but horrible in multiplayer.

Alternative build ideas to get you started.
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Budget Pacifism and Tron Enchantment Cards

Cards to get you started
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- Angelic Gift (Aggro - Gift) NEW
- Giant Spectacle (Aggro - Gift) NEW
- Pacifism (Control - Gift)
- Stasis Snare (Control - Gift)
- Bastion Protector (Protection)
- Monk Idealist (Blocker - Recursion)
- Journey to Nowhere (Control - Gift)
- Cage of Hands (Control - Recursion)
- Undying Rage (Aggro - Control - Recursion)
- Cessation (Control - Recursion - Gift)
- Auramancer (Blocker - Recursion)
- Heliod's Pilgrim (Blocker - Tutor)
- Eel Umbra (Totem Armor - Gift)
- Daybreak Coronet (Aggro - Gift)
- Conviction - (Aggro - Recursion)
- Brilliant Halo - (Aggro - Recursion)
- Forced Worship - (Control - Recursion)
- Gossamer Chains - (Control - Repeatable)
- Overburden - (Control - Gift - Prison)
- Clout of the Dominus - (Aggro - Protection)
- Slow Motion - (Control - Gift - Prison)
- Sluggishness - (Control - Gift - Voltron)
- Launch (Gift - Voltron)
- Dragon Wings - (Gift - Voltron - Draw)
- Spirit Loop - (Life-gain - Gift - Recursion)
- Squee's Embrace - (Aggro - Gift - Recursion)
- Volrath's Curse - (Tax - Control - Stax)
- Pemmin's Aura - (Aggro - Evasion - Protection)
- Flickerform - (Protection)
- Mesa Enchantress - (Blocker - Draw)
- Kor Spiritdancer - (Blocker - Draw)

Choose your Combo!

Each combo here wants certain cards to be either added or removed to your Gifts package. Recommended changes are included in each combos spoiler.

Jeskai Land rush
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This combo generates infinite mana and infinitely big animated lands using the first 3 cards. From there either win or keep going. Full list of Buyback Spells playable with Zedruu here.
- Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper (Combo Piece)
- Jeskai Ascendancy (Combo Piece)
- Clockspinning (Combo Piece)
- Dack Fayden (Steal it all!)
- Mind Games (YES STEAL IT!)

*Note that you only need the first three pieces to win with combat damage. The last three are if you want to go overboard. Mind Games can also be used if you are playing Winter Orb, Trinisphere, or Storage Matrix. In fact Mind Games is fine even if you don't run Dak. With that said Dak works wonderfully with Alhammarret's Archive which also works well with Zedruu the Greathearted. Did I mention that Dak + the Archive will help you draw into the combo faster? Don't forget merely using a counter/interupt will help you draw to the combo. Lastly the archive will prevent your hand size form decreasing if you play Dack Fayden or any other non-creature permanent once the main combo is assembled.

These cards help the combo:
- Terra Eternal (Protection + Give away)
- Teferi's Response (Protection + Counter + Draw)
- Defense Grid Zedruu giveaway version of Grand Abolisher
- Price of Glory Really makes people think twice about countering, especially with Defense Grid + Trinisphere !
- Sacred Ground (Saves your lands from anything but combat damage. Even works vs Kozilek, the Great Distortion!)
- Monastery Mentor + View from Above (Infinite Tokens if you have the basic combo online. Use Zedruu's ability to give away 100 tokens to each opponent. After that just scoop because you've won at life.)
- Laboratory Maniac (Alt win condition in case they are playing fogs.)

Titan Dance
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Dance of Many + Sun Titan + Auratog + Purphoros, God of the Forge/Mass Hysteria/Fervor

To start DoM has 4 seperate triggers that go onto the stack. Sun Titan is on the field.
1. Cast DoM, DoM resolves.
2. DoM puts each ETB ability on the stack targetting Sun Titan.
3. Sacriice DoM to Auratogg before DoM's 1st trigger resolves.
4. DoM's second ability goes onto stack. Let it resolve exiling no token because you don't have one yet.
5. Resolve DoM's first ability which puts a token of sub titan onto the battlefield.
6. Token of DoM returns DoM. Repeat as much as desired.

Note that Mass Hysteria is probably the best "finisher" for the combo since you can get it back with Sun Titan once you are done going off. You can also give it away with Zedruu the Greathearted and on top of that playing it early makes people like you. If you are using other combos that rely on Purphoros, God ofthe Forge and token generators like White Sun's Zenith, Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Assemble the Legion or Secure the Wastes then I would run one or the other but not both.

Deadeye Faeries
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Setup: Have a bounce land such as Azorious Chancery , Izzet Boilerworks, or Boros Garrison and another land in play. Only one of them needs to be able to produce . Have Deadeye Navigator + Cloud of Faeries in play connected via soulbond.

1. Tap Karoo Land + Land for /X/X
2. Pay /X to flicker Cloud of Faeries with Deadeye Navigator's ability.
3. Cloud of Faeries ETB triggers. Use it to untap the lands that paid for the flicker.
4. Repeat until you have desired mana.

Since this combo can make infinite mana it can also be used to untap all of your lands to fight around your own Winer Orb type effects or those of a Teferi, Temporal Archmage deck.

B R M K Y V P
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- Body Double #Combo
- Reveillark #Combo
- Mirror Entity #Combo
- Karmic Guide #Combo
- Yosei, the Morning Star #Sustain
- Venser, Shaper Savant #Sustain
- Purphoros, God of the Forge #Finisher

1. Evoke Reveillark, reanimating both Karmic Guide and Mirror Entity. Karmic Guide reanimates Body Double.
2. Body Double copies the dead Reveillark.
3. Activate Mirror Entity 1000+ times for 0. The first activation resolves and kills your team. The Body Doubled Lark's leaves play ability triggers.
4. Reanimate both Body Double and Karmic Guide. Karmic Guide can now reanimate any other creature. Use Yosei or Venser.
5. The next Mirror Entity activation resolves, killing your whole team. Step 2 is repeated as well as step 3 (minus the Mirror Entity activations), except this time you now get to trigger Yosei too.
   

Krenko Alarm
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Intruder Alarm + Krenko, Mob Boss

To easy. Intruder Alarm also comboes with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.

Kiki/Twin X
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One of these:
- Splinter Twin- Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Plus any of these:
- Pestermite- Deceiver Exarch- Village Bell-Ringer- Breaching Hippocamp- Zealous Conscripts

All of them except Conscripts give you lethal damage. Conscripts steals things and gives them haste. There is also one creature named Midnight Guard that works with Splinter Twin but NOT Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.

Panoptic Turns
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Panoptic Mirror + Time Warp (or any of the other 3-5 cards that give an extra turn.)

One card that can make this MUCH cheaper mana-wise is Goblin Welder. Simply sacrfice any stax piece before your untap bringing back Panoptic Mirror. When it triggers exile the spell from your hand.

Basalt Monolith Infinite Mana
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This should be familiar to all those who started playing EDH when it was first invented.

1. Play Basalt Monolith
2. Enchant with Power Artifact
3. Tap BM for .
4. Untap Basalt Monolith for .
5. Repeat.

IF SOMEBODY PLAYS A Basalt Monolith EITHER BLOW IT UP OR KILL THEM ASAP.

Arcanis' Mind; Infinite Draw
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1. Have enchantment Mind Over Matter in play.
2. Tap Arcanis the Omnipotent to draw three cards.
3. Discard a card with Mind Over Matter to untap Arcanis the Omnipotent.
4. Repeat.

Infinite Attack Combos
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Dragon Feast Combo
(Named because of Hellkite Charger + Sword of Feast and Famine.)
1. Have lands that can produce .
2. Have a creature equipped with Sword of Feast and Famine. It doesn't mater what but something with "can't be blocked" or other means of evasion is preferred.
3. Attack paying and do whatever else you can to ensure the critter with Sowrd of feast and Famine connects untapping your lands.

Aureliagator Famine
(Becuase Aurelia, the Warleader, Sword of Feast and Famine, Deadeye Navigator. It also should be making you picture Aurelia turned into an alligator making a striking mid-air action pose with a sword in her now scaly maw.)

Setup: Aurelia, the Warleader cannot be the creature equipped with Sword of Feast and Famine. She does need to be the creature soulbound with Deadeye Navigator. Like the previous combo you need to be able to connect with the equipped creature otherwise your combat phases are limited by the number of times you can pay .

Step 1: Attack with Aurelia + the creature equipped with Sword of Feast and Famine.
Step 2: Let combat resolve until you get to the trigger for Sword of Feast and Famine. In respones to the trigger activate Deadeye Navigator blnking Aurell the Warleader.
Step 3: Resolve Deadye blink then Sword of Feast and Famine triggers untapping your mana.

Why it works: Every time you blink Aurelia with Deadeye she counts as a "new instance". In other words anything that applied to her before does not. At the same time her trigger saying get another combat step is separate from her so you get another combat. Since this is the first time she has attacked (remember it's like a whole new card after blinking) you can do this over and over.

Run ALL the Planeswalkers!

Ones for the current deck
- Ajani Vengeant
- Narset Transcendent
- Dack Fayden
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion
- Ral Zarek
- Karn Liberated
The untested and unused
- Ajani Goldmane
- Ajani Steadfast
- Chandra Ablaze
- Chandra Nalaar
- Chandra, Flamecaller (My Chandra of Choice)
- Chandra, Pyrogenius
- Chandra, Pyromaster
- Chandra, the Firebrand
- Chandra, Torch of Defiance
- Chandra, Roaring Flame
- Daretti, Scrap Savant
- Dovin Baan
- Elspeth, Knight-Errant
- Elspeth Tirel
- Gideon Jura
- Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
- Gideon, Battle-Forged
- Gideon, Champion of Justice
- Jace, Architect of Thought
- Jace, Memory Adept
- Jace, the Living Guildpact
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
- Koth of the Hammer
- Nahiri, the Harbinger
- Nahiri, the Lithomancer
- Saheeli Rai
- Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage (STAX Superstar!)
- Tezzeret the Seeker
- Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Threats worth playing.

- Anya, Merciless Angel: This is basically a 7/7 for that often has indestructible to boot.
- Archangel of Thune: Combine this with your commander and your army grows every turn.
- NEW Combustible Gearhulk: Win win for you. Your opponent? Not so much. I only wish it had flash.
- Arjun, the Shifting Flame: Absolutely BUSTED with Alhammarret's Archive (which also works with Zedruu).
- Avacyn, the Purifier: Play this in big creature decks only.
- Balefire Dragon: You're going to either want mana rocks like with Gisela or at least 4 cards that net you 2+ cards each to be able to play this guy.
- Frost Titan: Not quite auto-include.
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight: If you cut Storage Matrix for mana rocks this card is great.
- Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius: He says "pay : Draw a card". There's nothing wrong witht hat.
- Scourge of the Throne: Best creature if you are playing mid to large size creatures and use your counters for keeping your board alive.
- NEW Skysovereign, Consul Flagship: Very good value generator, just make sure you have some 3/2 creatures to pilot it. Thalia, Heretic Cathar is an excellent Captain.
- Sphinx of Magosi: Half a Divination for on a 6/6 body.
- Sphinx of the Final Word: If your just starting out and there are mono players running rampant where you live then this is a very handy card.
- Stormbreath Dragon: Pro Path to Exile and Swords to Plowshares. This is relevant because of Commander 2016.
- NEW Torrential Gearhulk: A bigger, not necessarily better, Snapcaster Mage. If you don't mind exiling your own spells then this guy is a fantastic beat-stick.

The Encyclopedia Zedrica
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Damage Acceleration

- Spellshock
- Sulfuric Vortex
- Ankh of Mishra
- Citadel of Pain
- Crown of Doom
- Manabarbs
- Rivalry
- Storm World
- Oath of Mages
- Pandemonium
- Battle Strain
- Copper Tablet
- Pyrostatic Pillar
- Psychogenic Probe
- Oath of Mages
- Jinxed Ring
- Earnest Fellowship (Less blocking/removal)
- Invasion Plans
- Task Mage Assembly
- Scald

Cards for affecting lands.

- Limited Resources
- Mana Breach
- Mana Vortex
- Overburden
- Blood Moon
- Magus of the Moon
- Impending Disaster
- Price of Glory
- Quicksilver Fountain
- Rising Waters
- Steam Vines
- Tectonic Instability
- Tsabo's Web
- Terra Eternal
- Oath of Lieges
- Sheltering Prayers
- Intruder Alarm
- Mana Flare

Cards that help/hinder card draw

- Anvil of Bogardan
- Excavation
- Stabilizer
- Horn of Greed
- Horn of Plenty
- Howling Mine
- Well of Knowledge
- Oath of Scholars
- Excavation

Cards that help/hinder creatures

- Overburden
- Ashling's Prerogative
- Arena of the Ancients
- Cursed Totem
- Custody Battle
- Caltrops (Pair with Kormis Bell)
- Caverns of Despair
- Chaosphere
- Crackdown
- Damping Matrix (Not recommended)
- Dream Tides
- Earnest Fellowship (Harder to block)
- Gravity Sphere (Great for Elspeth!)
- Invasion Plans (Screw them over on blocks.)
- Juntu Stakes
- Moat
- Mudslide- Mystic Decree
- Smoke
- Staff of the Ages
- Portcullis
- Total War
- Mass Hysteria
- Favor of the Mighty
- Planar Collapse
- Pendrell Mists (For creatureless decks. Very few people play without the commander and with no creatures. This gives you a big edge for an "oops all spells" version of Zedruu.)

Cards that mess with Spellcasting

- Arcane Laboratory
- Chill
- Defense Grid
- Helm of Awakening
- Grip of Chaos
- Hive Mind
- Sphere of Resistance
- Trinisphere
- In the Eye of Chaos (Without counter you NEED THIS)
- Thorn of Amethyst
- Urza's Incubator (Play tribal, give away, profit.)

Cards that mess with Artifacts/Enchantments

- Null Rod
- Stony Silence
- Serenity (Add Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice if desired.)

Cards that mess with graveyard shenanigans

- Rest in Peace
- Grafdigger's Cage

Cards that mess with Permanents and "cards" in general

- Confusion in the Ranks
- Suppression Field (Works VS P-Walkers!)
- Damping Engine
- Thran Lens
- Teferi's Realm
- Elkin Lair
- Enchanted Evening (Has a fe dirty combos. Will update for them in the future.)
- Null Chamber (The trick is you and player B figure out how to hose player C, D, or C and D the hardest. This is a very political card.)

Unsorted Cards

- Mana Cache
- Paradox Haze
- Power Surge

Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Panoptic Mirror + Time Warp Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice Intruder Alarm + Krenko, Mob Boss Defense Grid + Trinisphere Monastery Mentor + View from Above
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 4 Mythic Rares 47 - 11 Rares 24 - 3 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.20
Tokens	Emblem Dack Fayden, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	(A) My Commander Decks