Otters by Moogle89

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Izzet Otter spellslinger deck helmed by Alania, Divergent Storm, built to chain instants and sorceries while the commander copies the first instant, first sorcery, and first Otter spell each turn - up to three free copies per turn cycle. The deck leans on Otter payoffs (Coruscation Mage, Veyran, Voice of Duality, Tempest Angler, Kindlespark Duo), enchantment engines (Fiery Inscription, Chakra Meditation, Firemind's Research), and token makers (Manaform Hellkite, Shark Typhoon) to convert spell-casting into burn, card advantage, and board presence. It wins through copied burn damage, a Thousand-Year Storm chain, or token beats, with Banefire and Electrodominance as uncounterable finishers. The deck is a value-and-reach engine rather than a combo deck, with no infinite lines in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral's Order
  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arclight Phoenix
  • 1 Balor
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Bloodfeather Phoenix
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chakra Meditation
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Insight
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Daring Waverider
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desperate Ravings
  • 1 Detonate
  • 1 Divergent Equation
  • 1 Doublecast
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firemind's Research
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Invoke the Firemind
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Cluestone
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Kindlespark Duo
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Magmatic Insight
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Mindswipe
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Noble's Purse
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prophetic Bolt
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Slick Sequence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Staggershock
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Tempest Angler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Vapor Snag
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality