Azula by jmidge1994

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Grixis Spellslinger deck is commanded by Fire Lord Azula, who provides a unique combat-driven storm engine. Whenever Azula attacks, she generates two red mana and copies every spell cast while she is attacking. The deck leverages this ability by chaining instant-speed card draw, rituals, and removal during the combat phase to generate immense card advantage and tempo. Supporting engines such as Archmage Emeritus, Storm-Kiln Artist, Ashling, Flame Dancer, and Veyran, Voice of Duality multiply this output, transforming each cast into additional mana, card draw, and burn damage. The primary win condition centers on assembling an infinite mana and spell-copy loop using Mana Geyser and Reiterate, then duplicating lethal burn spells like Lightning Bolt or Expansion // Explosion to eliminate all three opponents simultaneously. Backed by cheap redirection spells like Deflecting Swat and Bolt Bend, the deck defends its explosive turn while overwhelming the table with combat-copied spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Airship Engine Room
  • 1 Alesha's Legacy
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Azula, Cunning Usurper
  • 1 Baron, Airship Kingdom
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Boiling Rock Prison
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Dark Endurance
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Epic Downfall
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Firebender Ascension
  • 1 Firemind's Foresight
  • 1 Frantic Confrontation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hypothesizzle
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Overwhelming Victory
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peculiar Lighthouse
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Razortrap Gorge
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scales of Shale
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sold Out
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Wishing Well
  • 1 Wizard's Staff