0009_Syrix, Carrier of the Flame (Copy) by K1ng13

Format: Commander

Commander: Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos tribal aristocrats build centered on Syrix, Carrier of the Flame. The strategy focuses on stocking the graveyard with resilient Phoenix creatures such as Flamewake Phoenix, Skyfire Phoenix, and Rekindling Phoenix using enablers like Entomb, Buried Alive, and Faithless Looting. Once assembled, the deck capitalizes on creatures leaving the graveyard to trigger Syrix's end-step damage, alongside value generators like Desecrated Tomb and Teval's Judgment. Victory is pursued primarily through explosive mid-to-late game turns powered by mass reanimation via Living Death or Haunting Voyage, damage multiplication from Shared Animosity or City on Fire, and direct burn from Flayer of the Hatebound and Syr Konrad, the Grim. The deck trades early-turn explosive speed for resilient, grinding aerial combat and incremental aristocrat attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashcloud Phoenix
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Darklight Phoenix
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Everquill Phoenix
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Flameshadow Conjuring
  • 1 Flamewake Phoenix
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Lightning Phoenix
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magma Phoenix
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nemesis Phoenix
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phoenix of Ash
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Rekindling Phoenix
  • 1 Relic Retriever
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyfire Phoenix
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warcry Phoenix
  • 1 Will of the Abzan