"So I Started Blasting!" - Frank Reynolds by user5665719

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Izzet spellslinger and burn strategy built around Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph. The game plan focuses on deploying Ghyrson on Turn 3 and leveraging his 2-damage amplification on Turn 4 with cheap pingers and 1-damage spells. Ghyrson turns 1-mana sweepers like End the Festivities and Blazing Volley into one-sided board wipes that clear opposing creatures while dealing 3 damage to each opponent. Attaching Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or Tandem Lookout to Ghyrson creates a card-draw engine that draws up to three cards per cast. The deck chains low-cost cantrips and burn spells across Turns 4 to 6 to eliminate the table. Supported by efficient counterspells, protective boots, and damage punisher creatures like Razorkin Needlehead, the deck exerts continuous life-total pressure and board control.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Blazing Volley
• 1 Boiling Earth
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Cast into the Fire
• 1 Chandra's Pyrohelix
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 2 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Dual Shot
• 1 Electrickery
• 1 Electrolyze
• 1 Electrostatic Field
• 1 End the Festivities
• 1 Erebor Flamesmith
• 1 Eroded Canyon
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Ferrous Lake
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Flame Fusillade
• 1 Flick a Coin
• 1 Fog Bank
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gelectrode
• 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
• 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Gut Shot
• 1 Immolation Shaman
• 6 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Charm
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
• 1 Kessig Flamebreather
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Needle Drop
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Opt
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pain Distributor
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Peculiar Lighthouse
• 1 Playful Shove
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Quicksilver Dagger
• 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Repercussion
• 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scorched Geyser
• 1 Scouring Sands
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sleight of Hand
• 1 Smash to Dust
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spark Jolt
• 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Tandem Lookout
• 1 Tectonic Hazard
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Unruly Catapult
• 1 Vivi Ornitier