Deck Improvement Ideas 2 by Cupka

Format: Commander

Commander: Iroh, Grand Lotus

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur spellslinger and midrange strategy led by Iroh, Grand Lotus. The core game plan focuses on casting Lesson cards in the early turns to ramp, fix mana, and draw cards, naturally stocking the graveyard. Once Iroh enters the battlefield, he turns the graveyard into an extended hand by granting all Lesson cards flashback for just {1} during your turn. The deck leverages this explosive spell velocity through payoffs like Burning Vengeance, Firebrand Archer, and Toph, Hardheaded Teacher, turning cheap graveyard recasts into widespread burn damage and an army of animated, trampling land creatures. Supporting pieces like Bumi, Unleashed provide extra combats for land creatures, while a dense suite of reactive redirection and hexproof spells protects key threats. The deck executes a resilient, mid-game combat and burn strategy without needing infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abandon Attachments
• 1 Accumulate Wisdom
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Badgermole
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blossoming Defense
• 1 Bumi, King of Three Trials
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Burning Vengeance
• 1 Combustion Technique
• 1 Commercial District
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cycle of Renewal
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Dragonfire Blade
• 1 Dramatic Reversal
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Earthbending Lesson
• 1 Electroduplicate
• 1 Firebending Lesson
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 7 Forest
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Gardenize
• 1 Glacierwood Siege
• 1 Heritage Reclamation
• 1 Hermitic Herbalist
• 1 Hidden Grotto
• 1 High Stride
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 How to Start a Riot
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Introduction to Annihilation
• 1 Iroh's Demonstration
• 1 Iroh, Dragon of the West
• 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
• 5 Island
• 1 It'll Quench Ya!
• 1 Karakyk Guardian
• 1 Katara's Reversal
• 1 Leaves from the Vine
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lightning Strike
• 1 Match the Odds
• 1 Meditation Pools
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Octopus Form
• 1 Omashu City
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Overprotect
• 1 Overwhelming Surge
• 1 Pillar Launch
• 1 Ran and Shaw
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Rocky Rebuke
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rugged Highlands
• 1 Rumble Arena
• 1 Run Away Together
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Storm of Saruman
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1 Tempest Angler
• 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
• 1 Thornwood Falls
• 1 Thousand-Year Storm
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Ty Lee, Artful Acrobat
• 1 Ty Lee, Chi Blocker
• 1 Uncle Iroh
• 1 Walltop Sentries
• 1 Waterbending Lesson
• 1 Watery Grasp
• 1 Whirlwing Stormbrood // Dynamic Soar
• 1 White Lotus Hideout
• 1 Wild Ricochet
• 1 Zuko's Exile