Ghyrson Starn - Pingers/Spellslinger by UntappedGames

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger and pinger burn deck commanded by Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph. The strategy turns negligible 1-damage pings into lethal 3-damage bursts whenever any source you control deals exactly 1 damage. By deploying low-cost pingers like Firebrand Archer, Electrostatic Field, and Coruscation Mage, every noncreature spell deals 3 damage to each opponent. Modest sweepers such as End the Festivities, Electrickery, and Tectonic Hazard transform into one-sided board wipes that eliminate opposing creatures and planeswalkers while chunking life totals. Punishing enchantments like Manabarbs tax every tapped land for 3 damage, while Caltrops neutralizes opposing combat steps. The deck backs up its burn clock with efficient countermagic like Force of Will and Counterspell, and features an independent 2-card combo finish with Niv-Mizzet, Parun and Curiosity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barbed Wire
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Caltrops
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance with Calamity
  • 1 Electrickery
  • 1 Electrolyze
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Firespitter Whelp
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Goblin Chainwhirler
  • 1 Hissing Iguanar
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Polymorphist's Jest
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sardian Avenger
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Smash to Dust
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swerve
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 The Apprentice's Folly
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Unruly Catapult
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast