Azula by user7655839

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Grixis spellslinger deck leverages Fire Lord Azula to convert combat steps into explosive value and damage. By attacking with Azula, the deck generates free red mana via Firebending 2 and doubles every spell cast while attacking. The list blends instant-speed card draw, efficient spot removal, and combat amplifiers like Two-Handed Axe and Great Train Heist to rapidly eliminate opponents with commander damage. Magecraft engines including Archmage Emeritus, Storm-Kiln Artist, and Veyran, Voice of Duality generate massive card draw and treasure bursts whenever doubled spells are cast. In addition to combat pressure, the deck includes an infinite mana and storm combo in Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal, accessible via tutors like Merchant Scroll and Scour for Scrap. Backup commanders such as Kess, Dissident Mage and Magnus the Red ensure the deck maintains high velocity even if Azula is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A Little Chat
  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling's Command
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cori-Steel Cutter
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maestros Ascendancy
  • 1 Maestros Charm
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Renegade Bull
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Thirst for Identity
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Waste Management
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Xander's Lounge