azula cyp by cessis

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-tempo Grixis spellslinger strategy built around Fire Lord Azula. It takes advantage of Azula's combat-triggered Firebending 2 to generate burst mana and automatically duplicate any spell cast while she is attacking. The deck combines low-cost artifact ramp and cost reducers with powerful magecraft engines like Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, and Veyran, Voice of Duality. In the early game, cheap cantrips and mana rocks set up deployment. Once Azula attacks, instant-speed draw spells, rituals, and removal are doubled, fueling explosive card advantage and Treasure generation during the combat phase. Flash enablers such as Leyline of Anticipation and Borne Upon a Wind unlock sorcery-speed spells during combat. The game finishes either through massive burn spells like a multikicked Comet Storm or an overwhelming board of tokens generated by Deekah, Fractal Theorist, Sedgemoor Witch, and Metallurgic Summonings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Azula, Cunning Usurper
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deekah, Fractal Theorist
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Fire Nation Attacks
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ozai, the Phoenix King
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Tidal Barracuda
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge