Iroh, Grand Lotus by Wander.Soul

Format: Commander

Commander: Iroh, Grand Lotus

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur Spellslinger Storm build commanded by Iroh, Grand Lotus. The primary strategy focuses on spending the opening turns sculpting the hand and stocking the graveyard with cantrips, rituals, and removal. Once Iroh enters the battlefield on Turn 5, he turns the entire graveyard into an accessible spellbook by giving every instant and sorcery flashback, while reducing the flashback cost of Lesson cards to a single mana. On Turn 6, the deck initiates a decisive storm turn by combining burst mana from rituals such as Seething Song and Jeska's Will with static burn engines like Guttersnipe, Coruscation Mage, and Firebrand Archer. Recasting spells directly from the graveyard triggers lethal noncombat damage across all opponents simultaneously without relying on combat steps. In the event Iroh is removed, backup engines such as Bonus Round, Storm-Kiln Artist, and Stormsplitter provide alternate storm finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Accumulate Wisdom
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cast into the Fire
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Elemental Eruption
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Firebending Lesson
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gran-Gran
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration
  • 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
  • 2 Island
  • 1 It'll Quench Ya!
  • 1 Jasmine Dragon Tea Shop
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Professor Zei, Anthropologist
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormscale Scion
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Waterbending Lesson
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Young Pyromancer