Is Ziatora, the Incinerator good in Commander?

Ziatora, the Incinerator

Legendary Creature — Demon Dragon

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

CMC: 6
Mana cost
Color identity: BGR
Rarity: mythic
Set: Streets of New Capenna
Price: $0.44
EDHREC rank: #2949

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Ziatora, the Incinerator converts your largest creature into a Fling that also prints three Treasure tokens — every end step, for free. Six mana is a real ask, but pairing it with Solphim, Mayhem Dominus doubles that flung damage and turns each activation into a one-shot threat, and Henzie "Toolbox" Torre gets it into play ahead of curve with blitz while still triggering the end-step ability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

44.7% of decks · synergy 0.31

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre blitzes Ziatora, the Incinerator into play for as little as four mana, guaranteeing at least one Fling trigger before it dies to the blitz draw — maximum value, minimum investment.

Slimefoot and Squee

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.29

Slimefoot and Squee generates a steady stream of creatures to sacrifice, and Ziatora, the Incinerator converts the fattest one each end step into Treasures that fuel the next loop.

Disa the Restless

36.4% of decks · synergy 0.23

Disa the Restless populates the board with Lhurgoyf tokens that scale with graveyard size, giving Ziatora, the Incinerator progressively larger bodies to fling for escalating damage.

Kresh the Bloodbraided

36.1% of decks · synergy 0.22

Every creature Ziatora, the Incinerator sacrifices loads counters onto Kresh the Bloodbraided, and Kresh himself eventually becomes the biggest thing on the board — and the next thing to fling.

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

34.6% of decks · synergy 0.21

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire already wants creatures in play to sacrifice for its attack trigger, and Ziatora, the Incinerator turns leftover bodies into end-step Treasure acceleration that keeps the engine churning.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Ziatora, the Incinerator lives — six mana is sustainable in a 40-life format with four opponents to hit, and the Treasure generation compounds fast enough to recoup the investment in a turn or two. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy it's simply too slow; a six-mana dragon that requires an additional creature sacrifice to do anything is never seeing competitive constructed play. Pioneer is the same story. Oathbreaker is legal but awkward — the signature spell restriction and smaller life totals make the six-mana ask harder to justify unless the deck is built entirely around the sacrifice loop.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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