the middle child by Profferor

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis spellslinger/combo deck helmed by Fire Lord Azula that generates explosive combat turns. The primary plan is to ramp into Azula, then use her attack trigger-which adds {R}{R} and copies each spell cast while attacking-to chain rituals into a massive X-spell finisher like Comet Storm. The deck is packed with flash creatures, magecraft synergies, and clone effects to generate overwhelming value and redundancy. Copy spells multiply the effect of Dark Ritual and Seething Song, turning Azula's single combat step into a mana engine capable of killing all opponents in one turn. Secondary paths include generating an unstoppable board of copied creatures or leveraging Kess, Dissident Mage for graveyard recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Callidus Assassin
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cunning Nightbonder
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eaten by Piranhas
  • 1 Elminster's Simulacrum
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malleable Impostor
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Teachings
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Slitherwisp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Taigam, Master Opportunist
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Ty Lee, Chi Blocker
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive