Tellah, for Alan

Format: Commander

Commander: Tellah, Great Sage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger and burn strategy built around Tellah, Great Sage. The game plan focuses on casting noncreature spells to build a wide army of Hero tokens while generating card advantage whenever you spend four or more mana on a spell. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and sculpting the hand with efficient cantrips. Once Tellah is established, big mana spells like Mana Geyser and Irencrag Feat unlock massive burn turns, triggering Tellah's board-wide damage ability alongside pingers like Guttersnipe and Electrostatic Field. A versatile suite of countermagic, instant-speed blink spells, and hexproof protection shields the commander from opposing removal. Without relying on infinite combos, the deck closes games through explosive burn spells and wide combat swings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choco-Comet
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Explosive Welcome
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Fool's Demise
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glittering Stockpile
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Highland Lake
  • 1 Ice Magic
  • 1 Illusionist's Stratagem
  • 1 Irencrag Feat
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Logic Knot
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Lunar Frenzy
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Meteor Swarm
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mysidian Elder
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noggle the Mind
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Orbs of Warding
  • 1 Painted Bluffs
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rolling Thunder
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Suplex
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 Tellah, Great Sage
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 The Lunar Whale
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Torch Breath
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Volcanic Geyser
  • 1 Wandering Fumarole
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach
  • 1 Young Pyromancer