Yoink by Tapformanny

Format: Commander

Commander: Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Grixis Spellslinger deck is commanded by Zevlor, Elturel Exile, focusing on multiplying single-target spells across all three opponents simultaneously. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Zevlor's ability to turn targeted mill and creature-theft spells into devastating, table-wide effects. Early turns are spent deploying mana rocks, cost-reducing creatures, and card-filtering cantrips. Once Zevlor enters the battlefield with mana to activate, the deck unleashes triplicated spells such as Traumatize to deplete opposing libraries in large chunks, or Involuntary Employment to swing with the table's best threats. Secondary win conditions include growing a massive Consuming Aberration, generating swarms of flying tokens with Talrand, Sky Summoner, or recurring spells via Lier, Disciple of the Drowned and The Dawning Archaic. The deck excels at explosive value turns and multi-target blowouts, though it requires substantial mana investment and remains vulnerable to well-timed removal on its commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Act of Treason
  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Battlefield Thaumaturge
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blaze
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Entrancing Melody
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goatnap
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harness by Force
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hydro-Channeler
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Involuntary Employment
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mind Sculpt
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Muse Seeker
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pilfered Plans
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Systems Override
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Traitorous Instinct
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Uthros Psionicist
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Zevlor, Elturel Exile