Ozai hates land- Proposed Changes by user7484551

Format: Commander

Commander: Ozai, the Phoenix King

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos land-destruction (LD) and ritual-burst strategy led by Ozai, the Phoenix King. The commander's haste and firebending 4 (attack trigger: add {R}{R}{R}{R}) make him both a mana battery and a finisher, and his static flying/indestructible when you have six or more unspent mana enables asymmetric mass-land-destruction locks. The deck aims to bury opponents under a wave of land hate (Blood Moon, Ruination, Price of Glory, Wildfire, Obliterate, Jokulhaups) while generating explosive red and black mana via rituals (Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual, Pyretic Ritual, Mana Geyser, Geosurge) to either cast Ozai early and attack same turn, or to sink into a game-ending Exsanguinate. Secondary pressure comes from symmetrical burn (Manabarbs, Burning Earth, Price of Progress) and a small recursion package (Underworld Breach, Elixir). The deck is built to control resource development and close quickly once it establishes a mana advantage, but it relies heavily on its commander for the final lock and win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agent of Stromgald
  • 1 Anarchy
  • 1 Barrels of Blasting Jelly
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Bedeck // Bedazzle
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Boom // Bust
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Burnout
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Death Cloud
  • 1 Deathmark
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Doubling Cube
  • 1 Dwarven Blastminer
  • 1 Dwarven Miner
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Elixir
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Inner Fire
  • 1 Into the Maw of Hell
  • 1 Irencrag Feat
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jokulhaups
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mirari
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Obsidian Fireheart
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Mine
  • 1 Orcish Settlers
  • 1 Ozai, the Phoenix King
  • 1 Painted Bluffs
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Raiding Party
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rancid Earth
  • 1 Raze to the Ground
  • 1 Rodeo Pyromancers
  • 1 Rubble Reading
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Ruthless Invasion
  • 1 Seismic Shift
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Harvest
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Well
  • 1 The Fall of Kroog
  • 1 The Torment of Gollum
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Uncontrolled Infestation
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wildfire
  • 1 Zuko, Exiled Prince