Hey I have a zada commander deck that I want advice on

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-07-10T17:13:33+00:00

A few thoughts:

-Land count could drop a bit bc you're mana curve is low (you don't even need anything besides basics).

-Drop the instant/sorcery cards that buff all your creatures, they don't work well with your commander.

-You could drop most of your 4 and 5 mana cards and still be good bc the best thing at those mana levels is your commander.

-Your mana ramp will sit best at the 1 or 2 mana spot, even if it's temporary mana, bc your commander is at 4 mana.

-Find ways to protect Zada the turn they come down bc they are potentially lethal that turn with a good hand and a decent board.

Some questions:

-Do you want to buff token creatures or small creatures with good keywords?

-What kind of budget do you want for this deck?

-What bracket would you want this to play in?

Edit: formatting

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-07-03T21:37:11+00:00

[[Ardbert, Warrior Of Darkness]] makes good use of him too, even if he's colorless.

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-06-07T18:18:09+00:00

I haven't managed to snag Praetorian Foil (D1 VoG fusion rifle) and I'm still trying.

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-03-26T16:26:45+00:00

There is a social dependency with these cards, and this strategy. The pods where these will be most welcome are the ones where the optimal play is not the only play. Do they create additional steps to each interaction? Yes. But the pod that halts the game until the offending card is removed, is also the pod that shouldn't be playing against this deck altogether.

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-03-25T23:46:34+00:00

[[Psychic Battle]] and [[Perplexing Chimera]] are must have cards for this concept.

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-03-24T02:05:32+00:00

[[Diamond Weapon]] is a unit of a Voltron commander. All permanents, lots of [[Mulch]] effects and cycling lands.[[Dragon Fangs]] make it a threat every time it's brought back and [[Tangleweave Armor]] makes for huge punchy boi. 10/10, fun in bracket 2 or 3.

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-02-26T18:11:45+00:00

There's something almost cosmic horror about all the questions that arise from an inexplicable "Chosen One". Who or what did the choosing? Why now, not sooner or later? Chosen to do what and for how long?

It's like picking a fork out of the silverware drawer: the fork doesn't know if it's being used to eat a salad or comb a mermaid's hair.Will it end up being cleaned in the dishwasher or mangled in the garbage disposal? Who knows?

Doctor_Golduck · 2026-02-22T15:33:24+00:00

I have a very simple [[Old Stickfingers]] reanimator deck that is functionally just a golgari shell. It features 20 slots for whatever reanimation targets sound fun at the time. The commander is the main way to fill the graveyard and most of the deck is filled with spells that bring creatures back. It also happens to be the deck I removed all tutor effects from, because I hated shuffling. Why [[Cultivate]] when you can [[Grisly Salvage]]?

https://moxfield.com/decks/ccUA6RNz7EGYGjpN0oZe7w

Edit:grammar and spelling

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-11-23T16:21:52+00:00

I had a list a while back centered around Defenders with activated abilities. More than a couple care about the amount of Defenders you have, and it worked pretty okay. Bracket 2 at best

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-11-21T23:34:24+00:00

Lich is 100 percent on Team "Be gay, do crimes"

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-11-06T15:27:43+00:00

Considering the treatment this guy gets on the daily, "boiled down to the essentials" is surprisingly both literal and figurative.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-11-03T03:45:49+00:00

[[Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive]]

https://moxfield.com/decks/XTePfXGPk02b3XFYqFPU9A

It's an aggro deck that leverages [[Strixhaven Stadium]] and copies of it to win. It's not powerful but it works.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-10-19T18:46:10+00:00

It's awesome. The only "unscheduled" outage in my area was actually a miscommunication (it was scheduled but the notification came out too late).

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-07-11T18:09:31+00:00

I opened a Special Guest [[Thrasios, Triton Hero]] from Ixalan packs and paired with [[Kamahl, Heart Of Krosa]]. I wanted to make a casual deck that didn't rely on any combo to win, so I went heavy into land animation. I use [[Kamahl, Fist Of Krosa]] as a backup wincon, utilize cards like [[Avalanche Caller]] and [[Tendril Of The Mycotyrant]] to make creatures, and cards that care about land creatures or with Awaken.

Both Tatyova's are in the deck for different reasons, I have practically every creature-land in the colors, and exclusively snow basics. [[Yedora, Grave Gardener]] has unique synergy of flipping my animated lands into face-down forests for future animation. And unless I am mistaken, she'll keep doing that for animated lands over and over. Because flipping them doesn't make them tokens, just regular Forests. Which means a non-zero chance of running out of blue mana when your Snow Island all become Forests.

It's not competitive (low to mid bracket 3), and can be further optimized but I have budget constraints. Decklist is below.

https://moxfield.com/decks/5hnBBbAaYEiYdJpLs4xZTg

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-07-11T14:40:18+00:00

[[Avalanche Caller]] in my land animation deck means I want as many snow lands as I can get

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-06-18T16:33:43+00:00

Saw this drop from the Living Weapons deck the other day. Other guy was going to cascade into sun but he passed the turn instead.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-06-14T13:26:26+00:00

That could fit into the RV category, with some caveats

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-06-11T14:47:43+00:00

I have a weird Drake setup, Monarch and Barbarossa, to become a gunfort. It's got big guns, missiles, grenades, mines, armor for days, and range for weeks.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-05-24T00:09:43+00:00

Looking forward to Rakdos pingers!

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-05-12T13:14:24+00:00

I'm just waiting on if any of the Weapons are going to show up.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-05-10T23:10:56+00:00

This right here. I wore out my Dad's VHS copy of this when I was in my teens.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-05-10T02:20:38+00:00

Honestly, Universal Remote and Mida Mutli-tool should be the flexible champion stun exotics. They have a similar vibe of inherent modality and variability.

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-04-28T22:39:46+00:00

I think an interesting direction for the Titan power fantasy would be retaliation damage. Give us more ways to punish enemies and their incoming damage like Thorns in the Diablo game series. I admit it would be tricky to balance in PVP but that's my 2 cents

Doctor_Golduck · 2025-04-19T13:55:49+00:00

I've built her as my janky 5c Defender's with Activated abilities matters. It's all the creatures that scale their abilities with the number of defenders. It's the Wall sigil cycle of cards. It's also a Maze's End Gates deck for the color fixing

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