The Commander
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Zada, copy that spell for each other creature you control that the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with creatures, then cast a cheap targeted cantrip or pump spell at Zada to copy it onto your entire team for free. You snowball card advantage with copied draw spells or generate a lethal swing with copied combat tricks. The deck wins by chaining spells into an overwhelming alpha strike or by drawing your whole deck and finishing with reach.
Strengths
- Explosive card advantage when copying cantrips across a wide board
- Can generate near-infinite card draw and damage in a single turn
- Cheap commander that snowballs quickly if left unchecked
- Mono-red consistency and access to powerful token/haste enablers
Weaknesses
- Extremely board-wipe dependent—loses all value if Zada or your creatures die
- Spot removal on Zada shuts down the whole engine
- Needs a critical mass of creatures before spells do anything
- Mono-red lacks reliable interaction and struggles against fast combo
Key Cards
- Expedite — Cheap cantrip with haste that gets copied to draw cards and enable surprise attacks across the team.
- Mad Ratter — With Zada, a single targeted spell creates a token for every creature, exploding your board even wider.
- Reckless Charge — Copies to give the whole team +3/+0 and haste for one red mana, often a lethal swing.
- Goblin Bushwhacker — Kicked, it pumps and hastes your token army for the alpha strike Zada builds toward.
- Akroma's Memorial — Grants evasion and haste so your wide board actually connects for the kill.
- Mass Hysteria — Cheap board-wide haste that lets freshly made tokens attack the turn they arrive.
Upgrade Path
Add ritual creatures and rituals (Birgi, God of Storytelling; Pyretic Ritual) to fuel free-cast cantrip loops that draw and damage simultaneously. Prioritize cheap haste enablers and protection like Heroic Intervention-equivalent red effects (Boros Charm splash aside, lean on Deflecting Swat and Tibalt's Trickery interaction). Tighten the curve with the most efficient one-mana targeted cantrips and add a fast wide-token package so Zada is online by turn three or four.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Copy a mass pump spell like Reckless Charge or Brute Force and alpha strike for lethal
- ▸Draw your entire deck with copied cantrips and finish with burn or an overrun effect
- ▸Generate an overwhelming token army with copied token-makers, then swing with Goblin Bushwhacker
Archetypes
- Spellslinger Aggro — Cheap targeted instants and sorceries multiply across creatures for card advantage and burst damage.
- Tokens — A wide creature board maximizes the number of copies every spell generates.
- Combo — Free-cast cantrips plus mana ritual creatures can chain into drawing your whole deck and an infinite-style finish.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
