12/12 flying haste by marinert

Format: Commander

Commander: Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger and token beatdown strategy led by Rootha, Mastering the Moment. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana through cost reducers and mana rocks, deploying Rootha, and casting high-mana-value instant and sorcery spells. Whenever an instant or sorcery is cast before combat, Rootha creates a flying Elemental token with power and toughness equal to that spell's mana value, attacking immediately thanks to haste. The deck leverages heavy-hitting spells such as Magma Opus, Dance with Calamity, and Furygale Flocking alongside token amplifiers like Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer, Rionya, Fire Dancer, and Surge to Victory to deal massive aerial combat damage. While the deck boasts high explosive power and strong functional redundancy among its cost reducers and spell payoffs, it lacks targeted tutor packages and proactive stax pieces. Consequently, it relies on natural card flow to assemble its board and remains vulnerable to board wipes when tapping out.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abstract Performance
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dance with Calamity
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Determined Iteration
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Furygale Flocking
  • 1 Galazeth Prismari
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 Homesickness
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Leitmotif Composer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magma Opus
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle, the Ever-Changing
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 1 Prismari Campus
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Renegade Bull
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Rousing Refrain
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Sanar, Innovative First-Year
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacle Mage
  • 1 Spectacle Summit
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge to Victory
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tackle Artist
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Throes of Chaos
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Unblinking Observer
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Visionary's Dance
  • 1 Volcanic Salvo