Minigun Granddad by user8248392

Format: Commander

Commander: Iroh, Grand Lotus

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur spellslinger engine led by Iroh, Grand Lotus, designed to leverage high spell velocity and graveyard recursion. By utilizing green land ramp and low-CMC cost reducers such as Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius and Baral, Chief of Compliance, the deck accelerates toward deploying Iroh by Turn 5. Once Iroh is established, Lesson spells gain a {1} flashback cost and non-Lessons gain flashback equal to their mana cost, allowing the deck to replay cantrips, removal, and draw spells directly from the graveyard. Static payoffs including Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, Guttersnipe, and Talrand, Sky Summoner convert these spell chains into immense Treasure generation, massive card draw, table-wide direct burn, and overwhelming evasive token swarms. The deck operates proactively while maintaining robust stack interaction and targeted removal to defend its board and close games on Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Accumulate Wisdom
  • 1 Airship Engine Room
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Combustion Technique
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
  • 12 Island
  • 1 It'll Quench Ya!
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overwhelming Victory
  • 1 Pieces of the Puzzle
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rootcoil Creeper
  • 1 Secret of Bloodbending
  • 1 Secrets of the Dead
  • 1 See the Truth
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 True Ancestry
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Waterbending Lesson
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast