Iroh, Grand Lotus - 🍵 (G/R/U) - Br3/4 - “Hope is something you give yourself.” by Sartoris

Format: Commander

Commander: Iroh, Grand Lotus

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur Spellslinger Storm engine commanded by Iroh, Grand Lotus. The strategy focuses on accelerating mana through cheap cost reducers, mana-generating creatures like Storm-Kiln Artist, and rituals such as Seething Song. After setting up an engine, the deck uses Iroh to grant every instant and sorcery in the graveyard flashback during your turn, while Lesson spells gain flashback for just one generic mana. This effectively doubles your hand size and allows you to chain a flurry of cheap cantrips, Lessons, and burn spells. Win conditions center on scaling damage triggers from Fiery Inscription, Guttersnipe, Electrostatic Field, Longshot, Rebel Bowman, and Urabrask, or finishing the table with a massive Grapeshot. The deck features strong redundancy, resilient graveyard recursion, and rapid explosive win potential, though it remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and rule of law effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chakra Meditation
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Containment Breach
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Gran-Gran
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
  • 4 Island
  • 1 It'll Quench Ya!
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teach by Example
  • 1 Teachings of the Archaics
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Uncle Iroh
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Waterbending Lesson
  • 1 White Lotus Hideout
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast