Vadrik Storm by ZachKight

Format: Commander

Commander: Vadrik, Astral Archmage

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet Spellslinger Storm combo list built around Vadrik, Astral Archmage. Vadrik acts as a scalable cost reducer that decreases the generic mana cost of all instants and sorceries by an amount equal to his power. The deck accelerates Vadrik onto the battlefield on Turn 3 and immediately leverages cheap pump spells like Reckless Charge, Sudden Breakthrough, and Ancestors' Aid on Turn 4 to balloon Vadrik's power. With massive generic discounts active, high-impact X-draw spells like Pull from Tomorrow, Stroke of Genius, and Finale of Revelation cost only colored pips, quickly drawing dozens of cards. The deck then chains powerful rituals like Jeska's Will and untap spells like Turnabout alongside magecraft engines like Storm-Kiln Artist and Archmage Emeritus. It closes the game on the exact same turn with infinite buyback loops using Searing Touch or a table-wide lethal strike from Jaya's Immolating Inferno, leaving zero response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestors' Aid
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Fists of Flame
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gush
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 Haste Magic
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Inspired Tinkering
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Reckless Charge
  • 1 Reckless Ransacking
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Searing Touch
  • 1 Seething Anger
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Sudden Breakthrough
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Vadrik, Astral Archmage