Weekly Sale Commander: Hidden Treasures!

Posted on October 6, 2025

Hi folks! Welcome to the Weekly Sale Column! This column will be aimed at showing you some cards on sale that could give you some new ideas for your lists. They will *usually* be Commander lists in Bracket 3 as well so you'll be able to play these in any Bracket 3 (or higher) pods. If you want to play in lower pods, just swap out the Game Changers for other choices and/or add more along with some other competitive combos if you want to compete with Bracket 4 and 5 pods! Remember that the weekly sale ends on Sunday night at 11:59 PM EST, so you have until then to get your cards ordered!

For this week's Hidden Treasures sale, we bring you a Jund deck featuring the leader of the Riveteers in New Capenna, Ziatora, the Incinerator! Ziatora is a big ol' Demon Dragon that leads a group of construction workers in the Riveteers' Crime Family, mostly using her power to have monuments built in her glory, aside from the rest of Capenna.

She joins many other 3-color, 6-mana dragons in MtG's history that have powerful effects on their 6/6 flying bodies.Ziatora lets you sacrifice a creature at the beginning of your end step. When you do, you basically get to Fling it, dealing damage equal to its power to any target, but you also get to create three treasures (hence the weekly sale's namesake). She will be built similar to many Kresh the Bloodbraided decks of old, where you would have a good amount of cards that make Kresh bigger by being sacrificed when you want them, but we're also going to include cards that will benefit from the large influx of treasures! Here we go!

"Not All Treasure is Silver and Gold, Mate"

Captain Jack Sparrow said it right, not all treasure is silver and gold. In our deck, treasure leads us to so many payoffs, between mana, damage, and even pure victory. We play cards like Goldspan Dragon, Ganax, Astral Hunter, and Decadent Dragon for just pure treasure generation. These dragons, along with Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge, Goldlust Triad, and Old Gnawbone all generate constant treasures for us, which plays into the usual trope of dragons hoarding treasure!

It's not just dragons though, pirates, rogues, and even one big turtle (who is indeed turtley enough for the turtle club) give us lots of treasures. Pitiless Plunderer and Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer bring our pirates' treasure. Revel in Riches, printed in Ixalan, will fall under the pirates' category here and also double as a win condition for having all of these treasures. Rev, Tithe Extractor and Grim Hireling round out the rogues with Unexpected Windfall as the rogues' spell for this list (printed in Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, and one of our rogues is conveniently from a DnD set!). Ancient Adamantoise, one big Green turtle, gives us ten tapped big ones when it dies, which is convenient with Ziatora's triggered ability!

"Superman"

I was trying to find a powerful quote about sacrifice, and then I remembered the most gut-wrenching scene from when I was a kid, in The Iron Giant. THAT was a scene about sacrifice.

So anywho, we're gonna get some benefit from sacrificing our creatures with Ziatora! We've already spoken about our turtle friend, Ancient Adamantoise, but we also have Atsushi, the Blazing Sky. I like to picture Atsushi as a giant sushi roll covered in tobiko (the orange stuff), basically like fire, but Atsushi is perfect for this deck because it has a great trigger when it dies, giving us the option to play extra cards or to create more treasures. Sidenote, Sushi-Roll Atsushi would be the Secret Lair that gets ALL of my money.

The Balrog of Moria has the option of being cycled for treasures or to be played so we can use it to exile one of each of our opponents' creatures. Keep in mind that when we fling the Balrog with Ziatora, we're also getting three treasures and hitting something for 8, so there's a TON of value in that (delightfully on-curve) play. Stalking Vengeance turns our flings into essentially double-damage flings, and Mayhem Devil lets us ping whatever we sacrifice a creature, treasure, or even a fetchland.

On the Superman theme, we play a ton of other cards that are just big, strong, creatures. This is because they pair so well with Ziatora's ability that flinging them is just too good an idea to pass up. Yargle and Multani is a vanilla 18/6; nothing else to say there. Malignus is as big as half our opponents' life totals, so we fling Malignus for half our opponents' life totals, and Phytotitan just keeps coming and coming and coming back until their life totals have been depleted!

Change the Game.. with Nothing...?

You'll notice that our list has exactly zero game changers! Time for today's Commander Bracket lesson. The Game Changers aren't the only thing that make a deck bracket 3! Your playstyle and overall level of efficiency in the deck also determine it. One could argue that having Warren Soultrader and Phytotitan for a nice little mini-loop could fall under "upgraded", which is what bracket 3 is supposed to be. You could also argue that it's too slow for bracket 3 and should fall under 2. I would happily play this list in pods with other 3's and would feel comfortable that we're on the same relative power level!

If you did want to add some game changers, I would just pick your favorite 3 in the Jund colors. My personal favorites are Demonic Tutor, Deflecting Swat, and Jeska's Will, but they're all good and on the game changers list for a reason. Just go with what you're comfortable with (or at least have access to) and you can't go wrong!

Here's the list, see you next week with more random movie references!