I am Selfish. I Want to Play Your Deck, Too. by Slaytanic

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Storm

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This mono-red deck is built to ramp quickly into Etali, Primal Storm, grant it haste, and repeatedly cast free spells from the top of every player's library. The early game focuses on deploying 2-mana and 3-mana artifacts and stax pieces like Blood Moon and Winter Moon, which punish greedy multicolor manabases while leaving your 27 basic Mountains unaffected. On Turn 4, the deck deploys Etali with haste via equipment like Lightning Greaves or land effects like Arena of Glory to immediately trigger its attack ability. This generates a sudden surge of card advantage and board presence by casting up to four free spells per combat. Follow-up turns leverage additional combat triggers with Moraug, Fury of Akoum, damage amplification through Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, and heavy damage finishers like Chandra's Ignition or Warstorm Surge to close out the game by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Koth, Fire of Resistance
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Magus of the Moon
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 27 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Worn Powerstone