Azula by user2933336

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

Fire Lord Azula leads an aggressive Grixis spellslinger strategy that turns the combat phase into a high-velocity spell-copying engine. The primary game plan revolves around casting Azula on turn 3 or 4, protecting her with equipment or cheap countermagic, and declaring attacks to produce free combat mana through Firebending 2. While Azula is attacking, every spell cast is automatically duplicated. The deck capitalizes on this mechanic by chaining instant-speed rituals, card draw, and Magecraft triggers from powerhouses like Archmage Emeritus, Storm-Kiln Artist, Guttersnipe, and Ashling, Flame Dancer. Flash enablers such as Valley Floodcaller and Borne Upon a Wind expand this copy trigger to sorceries and permanents, creating explosive turns that flood the battlefield with Stormsplitter copies or drain the table with Professor Onyx. Backed by dense 1-to-2 mana acceleration and versatile reactive disruption, the deck consistently presents lethal storm-damage lines by turns 5 and 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Azula, Cunning Usurper
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackling Spellslinger
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Firebender Ascension
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Ozai, the Phoenix King
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sozin's Comet
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zuko, Firebending Master