BEDH: Smashing Success

by NorthernWarlord on 23 April 2022

Command Zone (1 card)

Creatures (1)

Main Deck (99 cards)

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Deck Description

I know I've made a Zurgo deck before, but I think it is time I give him a chance for another spin!

This is a Budget Elder Dragon Highlander deck (BEDH). It is meant for the Elder Dragon Highlander format, a.k.a. Commander. If you are not familiar with the format, I'll link it below for you.
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_(format)

I mostly use MTG Vault for my own private projects nowadays, but feel free to comment or request a deck of your choice. I've loved the Vault so far, and I like that they are still improving on it, as well as I am improving on my English language skills.

So, if you like what you see, consider checking out some of my other budget-y work from the link below.
https://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/budget/

How to Play

Too many boardwipes? What do you mean, too many boardwipes?
(This deck runs a whopping 18 boardwipes total, if you count all the possible options.)

Zurgo Helmsmasher is invulnerable to most threats during your turn, allowing you to build quite unique deck designs around him. This deck (like many others before it) has just crammed a ton of boardwipes into it, in hopes that your opponents give up by mere boredom (since Zurgo is likely to get killed on their turn anyway).

Nevertheless, this deck is built around the idea that the board is cleansed of creatures (and sometimes even nonland permanents) every turn or two. Most of its creatures are either very hard to kill, provide you advantage upon arrival/death or are designed to come back with little effort after dying. Use Zurgo and all the others to beat down foes ruthlessly, and wipe the board whenever they start to have some troops assembled again. Rinse and repeat.


Statistics, pros and cons. Consider reading these, especially if you are a newbie!

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Pros:
+ A true nightmare for most creature-based decks, especially those with little targeted removal. (Mono green players, beware!)
+ Quite resistant against enemy boardwipes.

Cons:
- Vulnerable against exile.
- You paint yourself as the big bad guy REALLY easily.

Deck Tags

  • Mardu
  • Boardwipe Tribal
  • Control
  • EDH
  • Casual
  • Budget
  • Cheap

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for BEDH: Smashing Success

wickeddarkman has deleted this comment.

Posted 24 April 2022 at 11:12

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wickeddarkman has deleted this comment.

Posted 24 April 2022 at 11:20

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I think it's your third zurgo deck.
You must have accidentally deleted it.

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Posted 24 April 2022 at 13:13

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It might be. Zurgo has been around for quite some time now.
What's with the deleted comments, by the way?

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Posted 24 April 2022 at 13:14

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Oh, I got so many of these and rather frequent, sometimes if I see a -1 on my comments I just go ahead and delete in advance before the trolls do :)

I like things to progress at a fast pace.

Sometimes I even feed them hints about what I write, just to see them go at it.
I guess I am a sadist/masochistic hybrid of some sorts.

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Posted 24 April 2022 at 13:21

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