Spellslinging Gunslinger by Slightlychris

Format: Commander

Commander: Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger and storm burn strategy commanded by Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot. The primary game plan revolves around casting multicolored instants and sorceries to exile them as plotted cards, effectively banking zero-mana spells for an explosive future turn. Once key burn pingers such as Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription, and Coruscation Mage or token producers like Young Pyromancer and Third Path Iconoclast are established, the deck unleashes its plotted spells alongside mana rituals like Seething Song and copy effects like Galvanic Iteration and Ral, Storm Conduit. This multi-spell burst deals devastating noncombat damage across all opponents on Turn 5, followed by a swift table elimination on Turn 6. While lacking fast cEDH tutors and free protection spells, the deck boasts high functional redundancy and resilient recovery due to plotted spells remaining insulated from graveyard hate and discard in exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Broadside Barrage
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Electrolyze
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Eroded Canyon
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Firespitter Whelp
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gandalf's Sanction
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Ionize
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot
  • 1 Magmakin Artillerist
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Retrieval
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skewer the Critics
  • 1 Slick Sequence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swerve
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Teach by Example
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vibrant Outburst
  • 1 Wizard's Lightning
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Young Pyromancer