Magnus the red by user1913324

Format: Commander

Commander: Magnus the Red

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a **Magnus the Red** spellslinger deck built around token generation and cost reduction. The primary game plan is to deploy Magnus early, accumulate a critical mass of creature tokens through cards like Young Pyromancer, Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Murmuring Mystic, then use Magnus's ability to reduce instant and sorcery costs to chain multiple spells per turn. The deck wins through combat damage with a wide token army, often accelerated by pump effects from Balmor, Battlemage Captain or Bria, Riptide Rogue, and occasional extra turns via Time Stretch. A secondary, more explosive win condition involves the Dualcaster Mage + Twinflame infinite combo, which can produce a hasty army of Dualcaster copies to finish the table in one combat step. The deck also includes a handful of copy effects and burn from Ral, Storm Conduit and Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Denied
• 1 Aether Gale
• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Apex of Power
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Ashling's Command
• 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
• 1 Banefire
• 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
• 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Doom's Time Platform
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Eagle Vision
• 1 Electrodominance
• 1 Eroded Canyon
• 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• 1 Explosive Derailment
• 1 Fork
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Haughty Djinn
• 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hope's Aero Magic
• 11 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Charm
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Magnus the Red
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Manaform Hellkite
• 1 Moonlit Meditation
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Murmuring Mystic
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Prismari Pianist
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Pyre Hound
• 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1 Ral's Reinforcements
• 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
• 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Release the Gremlins
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scorched Geyser
• 1 Shark Typhoon
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Song of Totentanz
• 1 Spell Swindle
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Stormcatch Mentor
• 1 Stormchaser's Talent
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sword of Wealth and Power
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Time Stretch
• 1 Torrential Gearhulk
• 1 Turbulent Springs
• 1 Twinflame
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Young Pyromancer