Wizard Burn by Dedspec

Format: Commander

Commander: Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis Wizard tribal deck piloted by Inalla, Archmage Ritualist. It leverages Inalla's eminence ability to duplicate impactful enters-the-battlefield abilities without ever needing to cast the commander. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with efficient mana rocks and rituals like Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak, quickly establishing trigger multipliers such as Harmonic Prodigy and Naban, Dean of Iteration. Card velocity is fueled by engines like Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Rhystic Study, and doubled cantrip Wizards. The deck threatens a decisive Turn 5 victory through a compact combo line initiated by Spellseeker, which tutors Lively Dirge to entomb and reanimate Archaeomancer, subsequently looping with Saw in Half and Culling the Weak to generate infinite mana, tokens, and damage. Alternatively, it can overwhelm the table through noncombat burn engines like Purphoros, God of the Forge, Impact Tremors, and Master of Waves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anathemancer
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage of Echoes
  • 1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corporeal Projection
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Determined Iteration
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Master of Waves
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Naban, Dean of Iteration
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Pyre of Heroes
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Watcher for Tomorrow
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster
  • 1 Wizard's Staff