Lightning Crashes by Pog_Park

Format: Commander

Commander: Storm, Force of Nature

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Temur spellslinger deck led by Storm, Force of Nature. The primary plan accelerates mana during the opening turns with artifacts and rituals, casts the commander on Turn 3 or 4, and attacks to trigger Ceaseless Tempest. Connecting with Storm gives the next instant or sorcery spell storm, enabling massive turns where cheap cantrips and rituals chain into game-ending payoffs like Elemental Eruption, Fiery Inscription, and Temporal Fissure. The deck can also execute infinite loops with Storm-Kiln Artist and Haze of Rage or Dualcaster Mage and Rite of Replication. While the deck possesses immense explosive potential and strong stack protection through Flusterstorm and Narset's Reversal, it remains vulnerable to targeted creature removal before combat, flying blockers, and stax pieces that restrict spell casting. Without native haste for its token swarms, the deck typically requires two response cycles after onset to eliminate all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Averna, the Chaos Bloom
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Elemental Eruption
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glamdring
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle
  • 1 Kalamax, the Stormsire
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Najal, the Storm Runner
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sprouting Vines
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stella Lee, Wild Card
  • 1 Storm, Force of Nature
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temporal Fissure
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Volcanic Torrent
  • 1 Weather the Storm
  • 1 Young Pyromancer