Yickity Doo Yickity Da by user4378613

Format: Commander

Commander: Kraum, Violent Cacophony

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger tempo build commanded by Kraum, Violent Cacophony. The strategy leverages low-cost cantrips such as Ponder, Opt, and Consider to reliably trigger Kraum's second-spell ability each turn, growing the commander while generating steady card advantage. In parallel, token generators like Young Pyromancer and Third Path Iconoclast establish a wide board, while burn engines such as Guttersnipe and Erebor Flamesmith continuously pressure opposing life totals. The deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 7 by casting multiple spells in a single turn to trigger Balmor, Battlemage Captain, providing team-wide power boosts and trample to close out games across two combat cycles. While the deck boasts high internal redundancy and smooth card velocity, its reliance on keeping vulnerable creatures in play over multiple turns makes it susceptible to mass board wipes and targeted removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blitz of the Thunder-Raptor
  • 1 Bloodwater Entity
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Combust
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackling Drake
  • 1 Cruel Witness
  • 1 Deliberate
  • 1 Devoted Duelist
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Eel Umbra
  • 1 Enigma Drake
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Firemind's Research
  • 1 Fleeting Distraction
  • 1 Focus the Mind
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gandalf's Sanction
  • 1 Gelectrode
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Kindlespark Duo
  • 1 Kraum, Violent Cacophony
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Mental Modulation
  • 1 Mindwrack Liege
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Najal, the Storm Runner
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Pink Horror
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Screaming Swarm
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Slick Sequence
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sprite Dragon
  • 1 Storm Skreelix
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tolarian Terror
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Unending Whisper
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Young Pyromancer