Azula by user7757121

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis spellslinger and combat-combo strategy led by Fire Lord Azula. The primary game plan revolves around deploying the commander on curve, granting her evasion, and attacking to trigger Firebending 2. While Azula attacks, her ability copies every spell cast, doubling the impact of combat pump spells like Bulk Up and cheap card-drawing instants. This allows the deck to eliminate opponents sequentially through explosive bursts of lethal commander damage while maintaining continuous card velocity with engines like Archmage Emeritus and Veyran, Voice of Duality. In addition to combat eliminations, the deck incorporates a compact backup win condition through Niv-Mizzet, Parun paired with Ophidian Eye or Tandem Lookout, which draws the entire library while dealing lethal damage to the table. An efficient interaction suite of cheap counterspells and removal protects the engine, while timing enablers like Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir and Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun prevent opponents from disrupting key turns.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frogify
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Invoke Calamity
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Teachings
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Ty Lee, Chi Blocker
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Winged Boots
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wizard's Staff