Wizards? by user5122337

Format: Commander

Commander: Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Wizard tribal and spellslinger hybrid commanded by Inalla, Archmage Ritualist. It leverages Inalla's Eminence ability from the safety of the command zone to generate hasty token copies of entered Wizards for an additional one mana. Early turns focus on developing mana and establishing cost-reducing or spell-synergistic creatures such as Baral, Chief of Compliance, Goblin Electromancer, and Murmuring Mystic. In the mid-to-late game, the deck transitions into a high-powered burn strategy, deploying heavy enchantments and legendary creatures like Thousand-Year Storm, Warstorm Surge, and Niv-Mizzet, Parun. These engines amplify a suite of burn spells, rituals, and drain effects including Exsanguinate, Comet Storm, and Inalla's activated life-loss ability. While the deck possesses strong thematic synergy and resilient command-zone value, its mana base consists entirely of basic lands, creating color fixing challenges for demanding mana costs. It seeks to close games around Turn 9 through explosive storm chains and direct damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Elite
  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
  • 1 Anathemancer
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Beacon Bolt
  • 1 Blaze
  • 1 Blightning
  • 1 Chandra Nalaar
  • 1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame
  • 1 Chandra, Pyrogenius
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cruel Ultimatum
  • 1 Dark Bargain
  • 1 Demonfire
  • 1 Dimir Charm
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Firemind's Research
  • 1 Ghitu Journeymage
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grixis Battlemage
  • 1 Grixis Charm
  • 1 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
  • 1 Irencrag Pyromancer
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lunar Mystic
  • 1 Melek, Izzet Paragon
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Naban, Dean of Iteration
  • 1 Naru Meha, Master Wizard
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Obelisk of Grixis
  • 1 Prince of Thralls
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Radical Idea
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ral Zarek
  • 1 Ral, Izzet Viceroy
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Realmwright
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Risk Factor
  • 1 Sage of Fables
  • 1 Satyr Firedancer
  • 1 Sedris, the Traitor King
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm the Vault // Vault of Catlacan
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Vodalian Arcanist
  • 1 Warstorm Surge