Balmors bombardment squad by Xathieros

Format: Commander

Commander: Balmor, Battlemage Captain

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger aggro deck commanded by Balmor, Battlemage Captain. The core game plan focuses on establishing early token engines with cards like Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, Cori-Steel Cutter, and Vivi Ornitier, then chaining low-cost cantrips and burn spells to trigger Balmor's ability. This grants the entire board massive power buffs and trample, overwhelming opponents through explosive combat phases. Mid-to-late game momentum is maintained through powerful recursion pieces such as Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, Festival of Embers, and Dreadhorde Arcanist, which allow the graveyard to act as a second hand for multi-spell turns. While the deck lacks fast mana rocks and hard stax locks, its lean curve, redundant spell velocity, and evasive combat triggers create substantial mid-game pressure that can close out four-player pods by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Adversary
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
  • 1 Call the Mountain Chocobo
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
  • 1 Cori-Steel Cutter
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Dazzling Denial
  • 1 Deduce
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Divert Disaster
  • 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Dreamscape Artist
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Energy Tap
  • 1 Equilibrium Adept
  • 1 Eroded Canyon
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Festival of Embers
  • 1 Focus the Mind
  • 1 Forger's Foundry
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Glacial Dragonhunt
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Headlong Rush
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lunar Insight
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mental Modulation
  • 1 Mitotic Manipulation
  • 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mysidian Elder
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nibelheim Aflame
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Release to the Wind
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Scalestorm Summoner
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Slickshot Lockpicker
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Suspend
  • 1 Taigam, Master Opportunist
  • 1 Tarnation Vista
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terrapact Intimidator
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Warlord's Fury
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Zoyowa's Justice