norin my boy by nikkedog

Format: Commander

Commander: Norin the Wary

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This mono-red deck turns Norin the Wary's flighty exile trigger into a lethal group-slug machine. Casting Norin on Turn 1 allows the deck to weaponize every spell cast and attack across the table. When combined with enter-the-battlefield burn sources like Impact Tremors, Purphoros, God of the Forge, and Agate Instigator, Norin repeatedly blinks out and returns at each player's end step, dealing steady noncombat damage. Genesis Chamber magnifies this engine by generating extra Myr tokens on every nontoken entry, multiplying trigger output exponentially. Damage enhancers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Panharmonicon escalate this chip damage into a rapid table kill. The deck protects its setup using a suite of red redirection spells and countermagic while relying on deep functional redundancy to keep its burn engines active despite removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dwarven Mine
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Gimli of the Glittering Caves
  • 1 Grinning Ignus
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 1 Irreverent Gremlin
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mechanized Warfare
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 30 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Norin the Wary
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Raphael, Tough Turtle
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reinforced Ronin
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rose Room Treasurer
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shocking Sharpshooter
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Slash, Reptile Rampager
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster