Itazura’s Auction House by Kaizen

Format: Commander

Commander: Itazura, Lingering Wick

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Izzet archetype commanded by Itazura, Lingering Wick, designed around upkeep triggers, topdeck manipulation, and high-impact chaos economics. By combining library-stacking tools like Sensei's Divining Top and Scroll Rack with upkeep multipliers like Paradox Haze and The Ninth Doctor, the deck repeatedly forces opponents into punishing auctions on Itazura's upkeep trigger. Opponents must either pay massive chunks of life to cast revealed spells or allow the player to put powerful cards into hand. A critical subtheme leverages ownership-reclamation cards such as Brand, Homeward Path, and Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor, allowing opponents to cast exiled creatures like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger or It That Betrays before stealing them back immediately. Backed by robust countermagic, extra turns, and resilient Eldrazi titans, the deck turns game-wide chaos into decisive board dominance.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Duneyard
• 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
• 1 Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1 Brand
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commandeer
• 1 Coveted Falcon
• 1 Crystal Vein
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dance with Calamity
• 1 Darksteel Angel
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delay
• 1 Descent into Avernus
• 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Expropriate
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Hide on the Ceiling
• 1 Hit the Mother Lode
• 1 Homeward Path
• 1 Improvisation Capstone
• 1 Into the Flood Maw
• 1 Invert Polarity
• 7 Island
• 1 It That Betrays
• 1 Itazura, Lingering Wick
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Multiversal Passage
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Mystifying Maze
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Nexus of Fate
• 1 Northampton Farm
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 One with the Multiverse
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Paradox Haze
• 1 Perplexing Chimera
• 1 Planar Incision
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Red Death, Shipwrecker
• 1 Release to the Wind
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Remand
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Show and Tell
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spaceshift
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Starting Town
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Suspend
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 The Ninth Doctor
• 1 The Ten Rings
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thundering Falls
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Twincast
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Vivi Ornitier
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Weftwalking
• 1 Wizard's Staff