Alania by user8725395

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 80

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive Izzet storm and combo list helmed by Alania, Divergent Storm. It is built to assemble decisive, game-ending combinations as early as Turn 2 or Turn 3. The primary line utilizes Underworld Breach, Brain Freeze, and Lion's Eye Diamond to mill the entire library and win via Thassa's Oracle. Secondary paths include Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal for infinite mana and storm, as well as the classic Niv-Mizzet, Parun and Curiosity combo. The deck's resource engine relies on hyper-efficient 0-1 CMC mana rocks and explosive rituals to gain tempo advantages rapidly. It defends its proactive lines and disrupts opponents using a deep suite of free and 1-mana counterspells such as Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, and Flusterstorm. Card velocity is sustained through high-impact engines like Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and The One Ring.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Intuition
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wooded Foothills