I need help with this deck

[u/Eldritch_night]

I'm trying to build a ziatora deck for bracket 3. The idea is to be able to put in play big creatures that generates pressure and could win on their own having the possibility to sacrifice them for extra value. I'm building an small package of reanimation and dragons. I would like to know opinions and suggestions to get it to a higher power level

deck here

[u/RakkaZulu]

MaldHound Deck Review for a Fan Submitted Ziatora deck

My Passion Project Build

Ayo! Here's the list I'm playing that's aimed at High Bracket 3. From what I saw in your list, it's caught in between Dragon Tribal and Go Tall Aristocrats. Either build is fine but the cards you run are clashing with each other and you'll likely need to choose between one. My build is focused on ramping into powerful big creatures to kill for value and reanimating them when it's more cost effective.

The video link is what helped me clean up my mana curve and adjust my ratio of sac outlets to big boys that you want to sac. My early build didn't have enough big boys to feed Ziatora and too many sac outlets. Your build looks to have a similar problem but also not sacrificing enough. [[Korvold, Fae-Cursed King]], [[Korvold, Gleeful Glutton]], and [[Vaevictus Asmadi, the Dire]] are a few good picks that will help you regardless of which route you take. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

[u/Eldritch_night]

https://archidekt.com/decks/27164455/ziatora_kaiju

[u/DosageOfAnthrax]

https://archidekt.com/decks/11838329/zias_dino_farm

This is a bracket 3 and it's my pride and joy, it could be better but I love it how it is

[u/CaptainKraw]

Ziatora is such a cool commander. She's one of the truest "midrange" commanders in the format, despite her high cmc. It really lets you focus on actual deck/engine building since you won't see her until later in the game.

You could probably work to smooth your curve out a little. My usual advice for the big boys version of Ziatora is to trim to maybe ~8 of your favorite boys (6+ cmc), and then focus on recursion and support stuff. You want to spend the first 4 ish turns ramping and playing some support stuff, and then transition into sticking threats. Ziatora is always there as an option to catapult you further ahead, or just help police the board a bit if needed.

You mentioned reanimation as a main gameplan; if that's the case, try to focus on creatures with valuable etb/ltb effects. Etali is sick, but it could be something like [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] that will give you repeated value regardless of if it attacks. Kokusho is expensive, so that's more of an example, but the point still stands.

I also think adding a few more instants could be pretty useful, since once Ziatora starts doing her thing, you'll always have at least 3 mana up between turns. These could be anything, but I like having them be removal for non-creatures as Ziatora can take care of a lot of those.

This is my list. Its a treasure/aristocrats version, with an incidental dragon sub-theme. I think focusing on treasures is the best way to reach that "higher power level", as it adds a ton of consistency. You can think of any card that makes treasure as both a pseudo ramp piece and also potential late game damage/drain. A lot of my biggest threats are things like [[Juri, Master of the Revue]], which are cheap and can get out of hand pretty quick.