Respect Your Otters by AJIrish318

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet Spellslinger and Otter combo deck commanded by Alania, Divergent Storm. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early mana rocks and cost reducers to assemble an engine on Turn 4, followed by a decisive win on Turn 5. The primary victory condition is the compact two-card infinite combo of Twinflame and Dualcaster Mage, which generates infinite hasty token copies to eliminate all three opponents in a single combat step. Alternatively, the deck can storm off using Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, Ral, Storm Conduit, and Jeska's Will into a copied Crackle with Power or Grapeshot. With dense card selection, flexible copy effects, and a robust suite of cheap counterspells and bounce spells, the deck pivots smoothly between value generation and sudden combo finishes, though it relies heavily on natural draw steps to locate its creature combo pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jokulhaups
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier