As Jump-Start is being targeted at getting people into Magic with the idea of out-of-the-booster ready "decks" I thought it appropriate to make a budgeted version of Zurzoth, Chaos Rider for those that might pull a "Devilish" booster that contains Zurzoth and then want to get into the foray of Commander without breaking the bank.
There is a bit of a reanimation theme, which usually is blacks domain. But with some spicy artifacts in God-Pharaoh's Gift and Grimoire of the Dead we are looking to use Zurzoth discard a card at random to bin some of our larger creatures.
Feldon of the Third Path also allows you to bring back creatures from graveyard.
The creature base is between nice utility creatures at the lower curve, to high impact "fatties" to run riot over your opponents.
There are some cards that can turn your token Devils into a creature from your deck from the top cards in Divergent Transformations, Reality Scramble, Fireflux Squad.
It is random what creature(s) you'll get, but that is part of the fun and there are a lot great hits.
There are of course a few additional "Devil" creatures to go with Zurzoth, but its not like they are central to the deck as he can create Devils for you simply by attacking himself and the tokens he creates thereafter.
But they do make use of your graveyard so this goes nicely with the discard element of this deck.
Now with drawing and discarding there is a real sense of disrupting your opponents hands. Often players are trying to hold onto combination of cards, and the very word "random" can really spoil their day.
You also have a lot of other draw and discard cards to support the general themes of reanimation and making use of graveyard.
Squee, Goblin Nabob and Punishing Fire can return back to your hand, so that the random discard can sway in your favor if wanting to retain some cards.
However there is a lot of chaos elements to the deck so don't get caught up in keeping card in hand for too long.
In order to make the Devil pings and your creatures in general be way more effective there are a number of damage amplifiers.
Angrath's Marauders, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Embermaw Hellion, Jaya, Venerated Firemage, Quest for Pure Flame, Gratuitous Violence all help to make your creatures deadly.
There is a powerful combo you can look to setup with Underworld Breach and constantly casting Battle Hymn or Mana Geyser|Fifth Dawn to get lots of mana and then casting Burning Inquiry multiple times. This will allow you to stack your graveyard for casting whatever else is in your deck, or you can literally look to draw everybody out of cards in their decks (zero cards in library) and then just pass the turn for them to lose.
Tibalt is a planeswalker Devil so is in the deck for flavor and synergy.
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider Budget Build
Commander
Devils
Graveyard Reanimation
Graveyard Advantages
Looting
Looting Creatures
Creatures (other)
Planeswalker
Enchantments
Disruption
1 Abrade
Artifacts (other)
Approximate Total Cost:
Zacama
