Is it cold in here or is that just me? by user8998970

Format: Commander

Commander: Aegar, the Freezing Flame

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger control build centered around Aegar, the Freezing Flame. The primary strategy uses high-damage single-target burn spells, such as Squash, Lightning Axe, and Bombard, alongside stat-reducing effects like Diminish and Ovinize, to deal excess damage to opposing creatures and planeswalkers. This triggers Aegar's ability to consistently draw cards, turning standard 1-for-1 removal into card advantage. The deck transitions into a win condition by deploying token producers like Docent of Perfection, Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Rite of the Dragoncaller. These engines turn every subsequent instant and sorcery into an expanding, evasive air force. While the list maintains exceptional control over creature-heavy boards, its primary vulnerabilities are vulnerability to board wipes during combat setup, lack of enchantment interaction, and limited stack protection against fast noncreature win lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aegar, the Freezing Flame
  • 1 Apprentice Wizard
  • 1 Artistic Process
  • 1 Bathe in Dragonfire
  • 1 Behind the Mask
  • 1 Bombard
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Broadside Barrage
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crash and Burn
  • 1 Diminish
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Electrolyze
  • 1 Essence Burn
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fiery Impulse
  • 1 Fires of Victory
  • 1 Fireslinger
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flood of Recollection
  • 1 Fry
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 1 Invert // Invent
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Lavamancer's Skill
  • 1 Lightning Axe
  • 1 Lithomantic Barrage
  • 1 Mercurial Transformation
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Muse Seeker
  • 1 Najal, the Storm Runner
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Orbital Plunge
  • 1 Ovinize
  • 1 Precognition Field
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Prophetic Bolt
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Rodeo Pyromancers
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Squash
  • 1 Steal the Show
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Strangle
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Tellah, Great Sage
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Trigger Happy
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Young Pyromancer