Be Kind to Otters 🦦 by Dalquize

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Izzet Spellslinger Storm build commanded by Alania, Divergent Storm. The core strategy revolves around ramping in the early turns, establishing Alania or a complementary magecraft creature on Turn 4, and accumulating immense card velocity by duplicating cheap instants and sorceries. On Turn 6, the deck converts burst mana from rituals like Mana Geyser, Seething Song, and Storm-Kiln Artist into a game-ending win condition, primarily a copied Crackle with Power that deals 40 to 50 lethal damage to each opponent simultaneously. The deck features robust instant-speed interaction and redundant spell recursion through Underworld Breach, Past in Flames, and Mizzix's Mastery. While it lacks stax elements and must navigate a vulnerable window when casting its five-mana commander, its explosive card draw, ritual scaling, and single-turn burst finish give it formidable closing power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Daring Waverider
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pearl of Wisdom
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stormchaser's Talent
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Wizard's Staff