Lavabending by user4089725

Format: Commander

Commander: Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Spellslinger Storm strategy helmed by Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder, blending cascade velocity with unique Earthbend and Firebending mechanics. The game plan establishes early four-color fixing and accelerates into mid-game creature engines such as Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, and Chakram Retriever. Once Yidris connects in combat to give spells cascade, or once magecraft engines are active, the deck chains low-cost cantrips, untap rituals, and flashback spells. Earthbent lands function as creatures to generate extra mana with untappers like Mobilize and Badgermole Cub. The deck closes games around Turn 6 by converting high storm counts into table-wide direct damage using pingers like Witherbloom Apprentice, Firebrand Archer, Gandalf, Goblins' Bane, Urabrask, and a finishing Grapeshot. While the deck possesses massive card flow and mana explosive potential, it relies heavily on creature survival and features limited stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Benefactor's Draught
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Blood Money
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Cast Away Doubt
• 1 Cerulean Wisps
• 1 Chakram Retriever
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cracked Earth Technique
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Dai Li Indoctrination
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Earthbender Ascension
• 1 Earthbending Student
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expansion // Explosion
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fire Covenant
• 1 Fire Lord Azula
• 1 Fire Nation Palace
• 1 Fire Nation Turret
• 1 Firebender Ascension
• 1 Firebending Student
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Flame of Anor
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 4 Forest
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Galvanic Iteration
• 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Hidden Strings
• 1 Iroh, Dragon of the West
• 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
• 3 Island
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Keen Sense
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Manamorphose
• 1 Mobilize
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Overflowing Basin
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Refocus
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Rockalanche
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Savage Beating
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Slip Through Space
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Manipulation
• 1 Sozin's Comet
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Strike It Rich
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Turnabout
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unsubstantiate
• 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
• 1 Wizard's Staff
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder