gambling by fej1177

Format: Commander

Commander: Neera, Wild Mage

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a high-variance Izzet chaos-spellslinger deck helmed by Neera, Wild Mage. The primary game plan is to cast cheap spells to trigger Neera's ability, putting the original spell on the bottom of the library and revealing until a nonland card is found, then casting it for free. This lets the deck cheat out enormous threats like Omniscience, Blightsteel Colossus, and Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre far ahead of curve. A secondary channel uses Polymorph effects (Polymorph, Transmogrify, Proteus Staff) to turn token creatures-generated by Young Pyromancer, Third Path Iconoclast, Dragon Fodder, and Shark Typhoon-into those same bombs. The deck also includes cascade-style value engines (Etali, Primal Storm, Plargg and Nassari, Wanda's Vision) and a single extra-turn spell (Expropriate) to close out games. The overall strategy is explosive but inherently random, relying on Neera's trigger and topdeck manipulation to find the right payoff.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aminatou's Augury
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Breaker of Creation
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Displacer Kitten
• 1 Divergent Transformations
• 1 Dragon Fodder
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expropriate
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Ferrous Lake
• 1 Fireflux Squad
• 1 Flashback
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Halimar Depths
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Improvisation Capstone
• 8 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1 Lazotep Plating
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Neera, Wild Mage
• 1 Negate
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Otherworldly Gaze
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plargg and Nassari
• 1 Polymorph
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Proteus Staff
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shark Typhoon
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Show and Tell
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Soothsaying
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Tempt with Vengeance
• 1 Third Path Iconoclast
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Tidings of War
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Transmogrify
• 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Vivi Ornitier
• 1 Wanda's Vision
• 1 Young Pyromancer