Spell Slingers by user3425992

Format: Commander

Commander: Baral and Kari Zev

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger strategy commanded by Baral and Kari Zev. The primary plan leverages low-cost instant and sorcery velocity to cheat mana costs via the commander's triggered ability and flood the board with evasive creature tokens. Engines such as Talrand, Sky Summoner, Docent of Perfection, and Third Path Iconoclast convert spellcasts into swarms of Drakes, Wizards, and Soldiers, while Double Vision and Gandalf, Goblins' Bane provide direct burn and copied value. The deck features a robust suite of ten counterspells and efficient spot removal to contest opposing win conditions on the stack and protect its board. With a lean 30-land base and limited raw card draw, the list relies on cantrips, looting, and cost reducers to maintain tempo, eventually overwhelming the table through evasive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bubble Matrix
  • 1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame
  • 1 Chandra, Heart of Fire
  • 1 Chandra, the Firebrand
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Dormant Volcano
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
  • 1 Dwarven Ruins
  • 1 Early Frost
  • 1 Entrancing Melody
  • 1 Epiphany at the Drownyard
  • 1 Exquisite Firecraft
  • 1 Face Yourself
  • 1 Fall of the Titans
  • 1 Firemind's Foresight
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Gridlock
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Imminent Doom
  • 1 Impact Resonance
  • 1 Incite Rebellion
  • 1 Innovative Commons
  • 1 Ionize
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Ixidor's Will
  • 1 Izzet Chronarch
  • 1 Izzet Cluestone
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kaza, Roil Chaser
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Mage's Guile
  • 1 Mage-Ring Network
  • 1 Mages' Contest
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Micromancer
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Neurok Stealthsuit
  • 1 Otterball Antics
  • 1 Perfected Theory
  • 1 Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act
  • 1 Portent of Calamity
  • 1 Prophetic Bolt
  • 1 Purphoros's Intervention
  • 1 Rethink
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 River's Rebuke
  • 1 Sakashima's Will
  • 1 Searing Wind
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Soaring Seacliff
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Svyelunite Temple
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Ugin's Insight
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Way of the Pyromancer
  • 1 Web of Inertia
  • 1 Wishing Well
  • 1 Wizard's Staff