Yusri's Gambit by REGELDUDES

Format: Commander

Commander: Yusri, Fortune's Flame

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger strategy piloted by Yusri, Fortune's Flame. Yusri serves as a repeatable card advantage and resource engine in the command zone, attacking each turn to flip five coins and draw multiple cards. The deck maximizes this coin-flip mechanic through support pieces such as Krark's Thumb, Tavern Scoundrel, and Edgar, King of Figaro, converting flips into explosive card draw and Treasure generation. The influx of cards fuels a dense package of cost reducers like Goblin Electromancer and Baral, Chief of Compliance, enabling rapid sequences of cheap cantrips and rituals like Jeska's Will. Rather than relying on combat damage against individual life totals, the deck utilizes asymmetric burn engines including Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription, and Coruscation Mage to damage every opponent simultaneously. Backed by efficient countermagic and swift recovery, the deck applies severe pressure around Turn 5 and closes games on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chance Encounter
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Edgar, King of Figaro
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hall of Storm Giants
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krark's Thumb
  • 1 Krark, the Thumbless
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mission Briefing
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Retrieval
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tavern Scoundrel
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Yusri, Fortune's Flame