Revenge of Neriv, Heart of the Storm V4.5 by Asphyziate

Format: Commander

Commander: Neriv, Heart of the Storm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Mardu deck, helmed by Neriv, Heart of the Storm, is a battlecruiser-style strategy built around entering-this-turn creatures dealing double damage. The primary game plan is to deploy haste-enabling permanents, then cast high-power ETB damage creatures (Terror of the Peaks, Warstorm Surge, Demanding Dragon) and attack with them, stacking damage multipliers like Twinflame Tyrant and Fiery Emancipation. Flicker effects (Teleportation Circle, Conjurer's Closet) re-trigger those ETBs for sustained pressure. The deck also packs a moderate stax package (Ghostly Prison, Grave Pact, Voice of Victory) to slow opponents and protect its own board. It aims to win through overwhelming combat damage rather than infinite combos, relying on the commander's ability to double the output of every creature that entered that turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Air Shoes
  • 1 Beyond the Quiet
  • 1 Black Widow, Agile Avenger
  • 1 Black Widow, Double Agent
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Chainsaw
  • 1 Clive's Invictus Blade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Crystal of Altar Cave
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Demanding Dragon
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Essence Reliquary
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Garnet Til Alexandros 17th
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Guardian of the Gateless
  • 1 Inevitable Defeat
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Karmic Justice
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Leyline of Sanctity
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Neriv, Heart of the Storm
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Obsidian Charmaw
  • 1 Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Panther Habit
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Trespasser's Curse
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Twinmaw Stormbrood // Charring Bite
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Éowyn, Fearless Knight