Zevlor - your cards, my destiny ! 😈🦹‍♂️ by tuktukswag

Format: Commander

Commander: Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zevlor, Elturel Exile turns one-target instants and sorceries into three-payment plays, making this a Grixis spellslinger deck that wins with a late copied X-spell. The main plan is to ramp into Zevlor, abuse his ability with theft and draw spells such as Acquire, Bribery, Rousing Refrain, and Jeska's Will, then use Thousand-Year Storm, Storm-Kiln Artist, and Flick a Coin to chain cantrips into a critical-mass storm turn. Secondary lines rely on Kess, Dissident Mage and Mystic Sanctuary to recur key spells, or steal opposing boards with Clone Legion. Kess functions as a hidden backup commander. Zevlor is not a combo piece but an extreme card-advantage and mana multiplier, and the deck can still grind without him, albeit slower.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acquire
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Battlemage's Bracers
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clairvoyance
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Display of Power
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract Brain
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flick a Coin
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Great Intelligence's Plan
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Ray of Erasure
  • 1 Recurring Insight
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rousing Refrain
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stolen Goods
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talent of the Telepath
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Worst Fears
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners
  • 1 Zevlor, Elturel Exile