Day N Night by huanbispo

Format: Commander

Commander: Vadrik, Astral Archmage

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet spellslinger combo list helmed by Vadrik, Astral Archmage. The core game plan focuses on casting Vadrik early and rapidly inflating his power using +1/+1 counters, day/night cycles, equipment, and low-cost pump effects. Vadrik's static ability provides a massive generic mana discount to all instants and sorceries, transforming expensive card draw, rituals, and buyback spells into virtually free velocity. Once the cost reduction is established, the deck transitions into a game-ending storm turn. It generates infinite mana and storm through synergies such as Storm-Kiln Artist paired with buyback Haze of Rage, or Reiterate loops with Mana Geyser. The infinite loop immediately converts into a table-wide win using Aetherflux Reservoir, buyback Searing Touch, or Grapeshot. Supported by free protection like Deflecting Swat and massive burst draw like Finale of Revelation, the deck reliably presents a lethal same-turn win around Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Clout of the Dominus
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Empyrial Plate
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Fists of Flame
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Retrieval
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Ring of Evos Isle
  • 1 Runechanter's Pike
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Searing Touch
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Time Stretch
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vadrik, Astral Archmage
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Young Pyromancer