Otters by Moogle89

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a focused Izzet spellslinger/storm deck helmed by Alania, Divergent Storm, whose triggered ability copies the first instant, first sorcery, and first Otter spell you cast each turn (in exchange for an opponent drawing a card). The deck's plan is to chain cheap instants and sorceries through a dense web of cost reducers - Stormcatch Mentor, Goblin Electromancer, Mindsplice Apparatus, Jace's Sanctum - and multiply them with copy effects like Galvanic Iteration, Doublecast, Narset's Reversal, Pyromancer's Goggles, and Kitsa, Otterball Elite. The kill comes from storm-scale burn: Thousand-Year Storm, Fiery Inscription, Coruscation Mage, and big X-spells like Electrodominance and Invoke the Firemind, with Arclight Phoenix and Bloodfeather Phoenix as a recursive beatdown backup. It is a value-and-volume deck that wins by burying the table in copied spells rather than assembling a single infinite line.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Admiral's Order
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arclight Phoenix
  • 1 Balor
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bloodfeather Phoenix
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Commander's Insight
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desperate Ravings
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Divergent Equation
  • 1 Doublecast
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Electrolyze
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Invoke the Firemind
  • 18 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Kindlespark Duo
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Mindswipe
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Practical Research
  • 1 Prophetic Bolt
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Repeated Reverberation
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Slick Sequence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Staggershock
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Teach by Example
  • 1 Tempest Angler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality