Ink-Treader Crystal V4 by nipie40

Format: Commander

Commander: Crystal, Inhuman Princess

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Crystal, Inhuman Princess provides mana acceleration and deals burn damage whenever noncreature spells resolve, turning damage-triggered draw effects into explosive card draw engines. The deck accelerates into compact two-card infinite combos to close the game immediately. Its primary win line pairs Dualcaster Mage with Twinflame or Electroduplicate to generate infinite hasty attacking tokens. Alternatively, imprinting Dramatic Reversal on Isochron Scepter with mana rocks generates infinite mana and casts infinite spells, letting Crystal burn all opponents out simultaneously. A dense suite of cheap countermagic, hexproof spells, and transmute tutors ensures consistent, protected combo execution across four colors.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal, Inhuman Princess
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dizzy Spell
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emerald Charm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Flamescroll Celebrant // Revel in Silence
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sixth Sense
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wargate
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast