Spelslinger by Amilino

Format: Commander

Commander: Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis spellslinger deck built to weaponize Zevlor, Elturel Exile's activated copy ability. The plan is simple and powerful: land Zevlor - his haste means he can fire the turn he arrives - pay {2}, then turn any single-target spell into a multi-opponent blowout. A dense shell of instant/sorcery cost reducers (Goblin Electromancer, Stormcatch Mentor, Archmage of Runes, Case of the Ransacked Lab) plus magecraft payoffs like Guttersnipe, Storm-Kiln Artist, and Archmage Emeritus convert every cast and every copy into damage, mana, and cards. The deck's primary win conditions are copied haymakers: Worst Fears to take all three opponents' turns, Cruel Ultimatum and Bribery to bury the table in disadvantage, Talent of the Telepath for free-cast chains, and Mizzix's Mastery to storm off from the graveyard. It scales with pod size and closes through overwhelming value rather than one fragile combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Chakram Retriever
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Ultimatum
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Deekah, Fractal Theorist
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Exterminator Magmarch
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Font of Magic
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Great Intelligence's Plan
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marchesa, Dealer of Death
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Pelakka Predation // Pelakka Caverns
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talent of the Telepath
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Worst Fears
  • 1 Zevlor, Elturel Exile