Zur's Tyranny

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

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Enchantment (32)

• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Daybreak Coronet
• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity
• 1x Energy Field
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Ethereal Armor
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pariah
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Staggering Insight
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Steel of the Godhead
• 1x Vanishing

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal

Land (30)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (12)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Instant (19)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Negate
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Creature (4)

• 1x Archon of Sun's Grace
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Sun Titan

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A Zur deck focused on control and steady damage output! The two strategies for this deck are to make yourself immortal, and then buff one of your creatures into a sweeper to end the game.

3 IMMORTALITY COMBOS:

1) Pariah! There's actually two ways to pull this one off. The first is to enchant one of your own creatures with Shielded by Faith and then follow up with Pariah to make an indestructible scapegoat out of what will likely also become your sweeper. The second option is far more brutal: I'm sure you noticed that Imprisoned in the Moon, Deep Freeze, and Darksteel Mutation are all Commander-killers, right? Well, if you happen to shut someone down with Darksteel Mutation, you can then enchant their worthless indestructi-bug with Pariah to add insult to injury and let their beetle be your meat shield! Just don't let that player die, otherwise everything fizzles and you're returned to your mortal state.

2) Solitary Confinement + Necropotence! Solitary Confinement is actually pretty unreliable without the card-draw guarantee of Necropotence, but if you can manage to keep both out, then you're hexproof AND untouchable, which makes this the strongest immortality combo. Be sure to offset the life-loss of Necropotence with some steady lifelink, otherwise this combo will fizzle and you'll be in a LOT of danger.

3) Energy Field + Rest in Peace! This is my personal favorite, since the CMC is lower on both of these cards, which means that you can easily play one from your hand the same turn you tutor one out with Zur, which can catch opponents off-guard. On top of that, Rest in Peace is also the ultimate graveyard hate, so that's pretty handy. Just be sure nothing important gets exiled from your graveyard that you would prefer to return to play with Sun Titan later...

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 33 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Pegasus 2/2 W, Zombie Army 0/0 B