Iroh

Format: Commander

Commander: Iroh, Grand Lotus

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur Spellslinger engine centered on Iroh, Grand Lotus, turning every Lesson in your graveyard into a high-velocity {1}-mana flashback spell. The early game establishes acceleration using low-cost ramp spells like Farseek and Search for Tomorrow alongside cost reducers such as Goblin Electromancer and Baral, Chief of Compliance. Meanwhile, early Lessons and cantrips fill the graveyard with utility, card draw, and removal. Once Iroh enters on Turn 5, the deck transitions into an explosive storm engine. By casting multiple Lessons from the graveyard for just one mana each, you generate massive card draw through Archmage Emeritus, produce boundless mana with Storm-Kiln Artist, and scale lethal Paradox damage with Impending Flux. Secondary win conditions leverage Toph, Hardheaded Teacher and Earthbend sorceries to animate lands into large, hasty attackers. While vulnerable to graveyard exile and commander removal, the deck boasts immense card flow and spell velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aang's Journey
• 1 Abandon Attachments
• 1 Accumulate Wisdom
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1 Boomerang Basics
• 1 Bountiful Landscape
• 1 Bumi's Feast Lecture
• 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
• 1 Chakra Meditation
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Combustion Technique
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Containment Breach
• 1 Cracked Earth Technique
• 1 Cycle of Renewal
• 1 Dire-Strain Rampage
• 1 Elemental Teachings
• 1 Energybending
• 1 Environmental Sciences
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explore
• 1 Farseek
• 7 Forest
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Glacierwood Siege
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Gran-Gran
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Illuminate History
• 1 Impending Flux
• 1 Inspiration from Beyond
• 1 Introduction to Annihilation
• 1 Introduction to Prophecy
• 1 Iroh's Demonstration
• 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
• 7 Island
• 1 It'll Quench Ya!
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Charm
• 1 Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Lock and Load
• 1 Lost Days
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Nightmares and Daydreams
• 1 Octopus Form
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Overwhelming Victory
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Price of Freedom
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reckless Blaze
• 1 Rockalanche
• 1 Roiling Regrowth
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Search for Tomorrow
• 1 Seismic Sense
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Sokka's Haiku
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solstice Revelations
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Stormcatch Mentor
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Teachings of the Archaics
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 True Ancestry
• 1 Turnabout
• 1 Volcanic Vision
• 1 Waterbending Lesson
• 1 Whirlwind Technique
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Zuko's Exile