Kuja - def by kintsugitecture

Format: Commander

Commander: Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 16

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Wizard spell-burn deck built around Kuja, Genome Sorcerer. The primary plan is to cast Kuja, create or find enough Wizards to transform it, then cast a sequence of cheap noncreature spells. Transformed Kuja doubles the damage from its Wizard tokens, while Guttersnipe, Black Waltz No. 3, Gandalf, Goblins' Bane, Urabrask, and Thunderdrum Soloist add further triggers. Storm-Kiln Artist, rituals, Treasures, and Jeska's Will can create explosive turns. The deck has useful card flow and broad but uneven removal, though its tutors and functional redundancy are limited. Its main weakness is timing: ordinary assembly takes about seven turns, and the engine still needs many spells to eliminate three opponents from 40 life. It has no supported infinite combo or total lockout. Treat the deck as a value-oriented burn engine that can produce strong finite turns rather than as a compact combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
  • 1 Dual Strike
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Overmaster
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroclasm
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reckless Handling
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Young Pyromancer
  • 1 Zuko's Conviction