Saheeli by user2355844

Format: Commander

Commander: Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger and token swarm strategy commanded by Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar. The game plan revolves around casting a high density of low-cost noncreature spells to trigger Saheeli's ability, flooding the board with 1/1 flying Thopter tokens that have haste. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using efficient two-mana mana rocks and filters through its library with inexpensive cantrips like Preordain and Brainstorm. Once Saheeli is assembled, enter-the-battlefield pingers such as Impact Tremors, Molten Gatekeeper, and Coruscation Mage convert every spellcast and token creation into direct life drain against all opponents. In the mid-to-late game, high-impact enhancers like Draconic Visitor upgrade Thopters into 5/5 flying Dragons, while Winter, Team Player and Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive ensure combat damage pushes through opposing defenses. Backed by interactive countermagic and bounce spells, the deck overwhelms the table with wide evasive pressure and compounding burn damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armor Wars
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blood Sun
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chandra's Emberling
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Daring Waverider
  • 1 Dazzling Denial
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galazeth Prismari
  • 1 Gandalf's Sanction
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Iron Man, Tony Stark
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Pearl of Wisdom
  • 1 Pinecone Strike
  • 1 Pit of Offerings
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stormchaser's Talent
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
  • 1 Traxos, Academy Guardian
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Unauthorized Exit
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Winter, Team Player
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster