Secondhand Smoke by Boralin

Format: Commander

Commander: Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity mono-red spellslinger and storm archetype commanded by Gandalf, Goblins' Bane. The primary strategy focuses on assembling low-cost noncreature spell pingers alongside damage amplifiers and mana engines. By Turn 4, the deck establishes an operating setup with Gandalf or redundant pingers like Coruscation Mage and Guttersnipe backed by engines such as Birgi, God of Storytelling or Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might. On Turn 5, it launches a decisive lethal turn by chaining rituals like Jeska's Will and Seething Song into deep impulse draw from Virtue of Courage and Wrenn's Resolve. Each cast triggers Gandalf and supporting pingers, dealing amplified damage across all three opponents simultaneously to finish the game within a single main phase. Robust reactive protection like Deflecting Swat and Pyroblast defends the critical turn, while Underworld Breach and Mizzix's Mastery provide explosive graveyard recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Embrace the Unknown
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Isengard Unleashed
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Magus of the Moon
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 26 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Overmaster
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Reckless Impulse
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wrenn's Resolve