un by user3455704

Format: Commander

Creator: user3455704

Commander: Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 19

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos tribal midrange strategy built around Syrix, Carrier of the Flame and an extensive roster of recursive Phoenix creatures. The deck leverages tribal cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn to deploy evasive threats ahead of curve. As Phoenixes cycle between the battlefield, graveyard, and hand, Syrix translates zone changes into direct-damage burn to control the board or pressure life totals. Without fast mana or tutors, the deck operates at a classic casual pace, steadily building an aerial presence that is resilient against conventional creature destruction. The win condition relies on sustained combat damage from evasive flyers supplemented by burn engines such as Warstorm Surge and mass reanimation via Patriarch's Bidding. The deck's primary vulnerabilities lie in graveyard-exile effects, a complete absence of stack interaction, and a multi-turn combat clock that allows faster opponents ample opportunity to stabilize.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akoum Firebird
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arclight Phoenix
  • 1 Ashcloud Phoenix
  • 1 Aurora Phoenix
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfeather Phoenix
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bogardan Phoenix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chandra's Phoenix
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Darklight Phoenix
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Detective's Phoenix
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Erebos's Intervention
  • 1 Everquill Phoenix
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firestorm Phoenix
  • 1 Firewing Phoenix
  • 1 Flame-Wreathed Phoenix
  • 1 Flamewake Phoenix
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Immortal Phoenix
  • 1 Jaya's Phoenix
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kuldotha Phoenix
  • 1 Lamplight Phoenix
  • 1 Lightning Phoenix
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magma Phoenix
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Molten Firebird
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nemesis Phoenix
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phoenix Chick
  • 1 Phoenix of Ash
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rekindling Phoenix
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retriever Phoenix
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Screeching Phoenix
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shard Phoenix
  • 1 Shivan Phoenix
  • 1 Skarrgan Firebird
  • 1 Skyfire Phoenix
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Spellpyre Phoenix
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sunstreak Phoenix
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warcry Phoenix
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Whip of Erebos