4 flavor mutate by billyon

Format: Commander

Commander: Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a mutate-cascade value engine helmed by Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder, aiming to turn combat damage into a torrent of free spells. The primary game plan is to suit Yidris with Equipment-Buster Sword, Blackblade Reforged, Blade of Selves-then connect for cascade triggers that chain into mutate creatures and other payoff spells. The mutate subtheme provides incremental value: mutating onto Yidris or a secondary beater generates card draw, ramp, removal, and tokens. There are no infinite combos; the deck wins through commander damage, a giant mutated creature, or raw card advantage overwhelming the table. The secondary path is a large mutate pile with evasion and trample closing out games through combat. The deck is moderately dependent on Yidris-without his cascade the engine slows significantly, but the mutate creatures still function as a decent midrange threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archipelagore
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Auspicious Starrix
  • 1 Averna, the Chaos Bloom
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boneyard Lurker
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokkos, Apex of Forever
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Cavern Whisperer
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Chittering Harvester
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloudpiercer
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dirge Bat
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Dreamtail Heron
  • 1 Essence Symbiote
  • 1 Everquill Phoenix
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Gemrazer
  • 1 Glowstone Recluse
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Illuna, Apex of Wishes
  • 1 Insatiable Hemophage
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lizard Blades
  • 1 Lore Drakkis
  • 1 Mage Slayer
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Migratory Greathorn
  • 1 Mindleecher
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Otrimi, the Ever-Playful
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Parcelbeast
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Porcuparrot
  • 1 Pouncing Shoreshark
  • 1 Primal Empathy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Sawtusk Demolisher
  • 1 Sea-Dasher Octopus
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Souvenir Snatcher
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Trumpeting Gnarr
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder
  • 1 Zagoth Triome