It's Wizard Time! by NightKat13

Format: Commander

Commander: Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Inalla, Archmage Ritualist deck functions as a synergistic Wizard tribal and enter-the-battlefield value engine. By taking advantage of Inalla's eminence ability directly from the command zone, every nontoken Wizard cast can be duplicated for a single generic mana. The deck leverages enter-the-battlefield triggers from utility Wizards like Aether Channeler and Sea Gate Oracle, doubled further by Naban, Dean of Iteration and Harmonic Prodigy. Massive card draw from Azami, Lady of Scrolls and Kindred Discovery fuels continuous deployment while interactive spells and countermagic protect development. The mid-to-late game transitions into decisive board dominance through Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration, which transforms the Wizard army into large flying threats, or through Patron Wizard's oppressive spell tax. Asymmetric sweepers like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance clear opposing blockers, allowing the deck to close games cleanly through combat damage and Inalla's direct life-drain ability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Epiphany
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
  • 1 Base Camp
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Divining Duelist
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kaza, Roil Chaser
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Mentor's Guidance
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Naban, Dean of Iteration
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patron Wizard
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Pyre of Heroes
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Riptide Director
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Robe of the Archmagi
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Ruric Thar, Biomagus
  • 1 Sage of Fables
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sea Gate Oracle
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirit Water Revival
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Stream of Unconsciousness
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 The Master, Multiplied
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Wizard's Staff