Grixis - Spellsinger by Monkey1218

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Grixis deck operates as a high-velocity combat spellslinger engine led by Fire Lord Azula. The strategy focuses on accelerating Azula into play by Turn 3 or 4 using low-cost mana rocks and rituals. Once Azula attacks, her Firebending 2 ability generates two red mana, which pays for instant-speed combat tricks, card-draw spells, and removal that Azula automatically duplicates. Payoffs like Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, and Guttersnipe compound this advantage by turning every copied spell into Treasure mana, card advantage, and table-wide burn. The deck pressures opponents through a mix of lethal commander combat damage and duplicated burn spells, closing the game around Turn 7. While the deck boasts immense card flow and efficient doubled removal, its primary vulnerability lies in its heavy reliance on Azula attacking and a lack of dedicated counterspells to stop exile-based removal and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Alesha's Legacy
  • 1 Ancestors' Aid
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crosis's Charm
  • 1 Cruel Administrator
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Donatello's Technique
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Flick a Coin
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galazeth Prismari
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grixis Charm
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Predators' Hour
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Quicken
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Raise the Draugr
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Stuck in Summoner's Sanctum
  • 1 Sudden Breakthrough
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Ty Lee, Artful Acrobat
  • 1 Ty Lee, Chi Blocker
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vibrant Outburst
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Zhao, Ruthless Admiral