I landed the first Thopter Copter by user7004508

Format: Commander

Commander: Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger and token swarm deck commanded by Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Saheeli on curve and chaining low-cost noncreature spells, including cantrips, burn, bounce, and countermagic, to generate a swarm of 1/1 flying Thopter artifact creature tokens with haste. Support creatures such as Winter, Team Player and Chandra's Emberling amplify this go-wide pressure by converting every cast noncreature spell into power buffs. The deck relies on a dense interaction package of over twenty removal spells, board sweepers like Blasphemous Act, and countermagic to control opposing boards while chipping away at life totals. Without infinite combos or high-velocity mana acceleration, the deck plays a deliberate midrange game, assembling its engine by Turn 5, establishing a credible lethal clock by Turn 7, and closing out the game through evasive combat damage around Turn 10.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aether Sting
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Awaken the Inferno
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brutal Expulsion
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Emberling
  • 1 Clash of Elements
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Curse of the Bloody Tome
  • 1 Deny the Divine
  • 1 Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
  • 1 Divining Duelist
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dwindle
  • 1 Eddymurk Crab
  • 1 Era of Innovation
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Flame-Blessed Bolt
  • 1 Focus the Mind
  • 1 Freeze in Place
  • 1 Geistlight Snare
  • 1 Gridlock
  • 1 Highway Robbery
  • 1 Icy Reception
  • 1 Infuriate
  • 18 Island
  • 1 Jeskai Elder
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Mindseeker Oculus
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Out Cold
  • 1 Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Press for Answers
  • 1 Provoke the Trolls
  • 1 Rage of Purphoros
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Ringing Strike Mastery
  • 1 Roast
  • 1 Runescale Stormbrood // Chilling Screech
  • 1 Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar
  • 1 Scattering Stroke
  • 1 Searing Spear
  • 1 Seize Opportunity
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summary Dismissal
  • 1 Surveillance Phantasm
  • 1 Sweltering Suns
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Teach by Example
  • 1 Trailblazing Historian
  • 1 Twinned Vision
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Unsparing Boltcaster
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Way of the Cryomancer
  • 1 Way of the Pyromancer
  • 1 Whoosh!
  • 1 Winter, Team Player
  • 1 Wrath of the Bloodmane
  • 1 Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows