Searing Gaze by catalinb

Format: Commander

Commander: Vraska, Soul of Stone

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai Spellslinger and Artifact Burn engine commanded by Vraska, Soul of Stone. Vraska turns every noncreature spell into a 1/1 Sculpture Treasure token with vigilance. The deck leverages cheap cantrips, artifact mana, and trigger doublers to produce a flood of tokens while dealing direct burn damage to all opponents simultaneously. Key pingers like Reckless Fireweaver, Ingenious Artillerist, Agate Instigator, and Impact Tremors convert token creation into table-wide life loss. Velocity engines like Whirlwind of Thought, Skullclamp, and Storm-Kiln Artist keep hands full and mana flowing during explosive turns. When noncreature spells chain together, the deck rapidly drains opposing life totals or swings with an army of vigilant tokens pumped by Craterclaw Colossus. While lacking proactive stax and fast infinite combos, the list compensates with dense functional redundancy, low mana costs, and resilient backup token generators.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consult the Star Charts
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Roar of Resistance
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Spirit Water Revival
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm the Vault // Vault of Catlacan
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xorn