New Untitled Deck by daBeetus

Format: Commander

Commander: Zaffai and the Tempests

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Izzet Spellslinger engine led by Zaffai and the Tempests. Its primary strategy revolves around developing a stable mana base across the early turns, establishing cost reducers and spellslinger triggers, and leveraging high-cost engines to overwhelm the table. Once Zaffai and the Tempests or Thousand-Year Storm resolves, the deck cheats mana costs and rapidly chains cantrips, burn spells, and draw effects. Payoffs like Thunderdrum Soloist, Gandalf the Grey, and Balmor, Battlemage Captain translate every cast spell into direct damage and formidable combat pressure, culminating in an explosive burst of copied spells that closes out all three opponents in a single storm turn. While it boasts tremendous card draw and rapid damage scaling once online, its reliance on high-cost centerpiece permanents and light defensive countermagic leaves it vulnerable to well-timed spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Arcane Epiphany
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Artistic Process
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Command the Stage
  • 1 Cosmic Epiphany
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Electrostatic Infantry
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Gandalf the Grey
  • 1 Gandalf's Sanction
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Impractical Joke
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 League Guildmage
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Slickshot Show-Off
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacle Summit
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Splatter Technique
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stress Dream
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Vibrant Outburst
  • 1 Way of the Cryomancer
  • 1 Way of the Pyromancer
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Zaffai and the Tempests
  • 1 Zealous Lorecaster