War Machine by Mist

Format: Commander

Commander: Karlach, Fury of Avernus and Sword Coast Sailor

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Izzet deck pairs Karlach, Fury of Avernus with Sword Coast Sailor to build an aggressive tempo and spellslinger shell. The commander provides an additional combat phase each turn, while the Background ensures Karlach slips past blockers when targeting the player with the highest life total. The deck leverages cheap cantrips to generate wide token armies with Young Pyromancer and Third Path Iconoclast, while magecraft engines like Storm-Kiln Artist fuel continuous spell casts. The primary win condition relies on lethal combat steps amplified by Karlach, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, and pump effects from Balmor, Battlemage Captain, closing out tables through unblockable commander damage and swarming boards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Bedlam Reveler
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charmbreaker Devils
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Galecaster Colossus
  • 1 Galedrifter // Waildrifter
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 High Tide
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Izzet Locket
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Murktide Regent
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword Coast Sailor
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wildfire Devils
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Young Pyromancer
  • 1 Zurzoth, Chaos Rider