Magnus the Red by nojaba27

Format: Commander

Commander: Magnus the Red

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a fast Izzet spellslinger/token hybrid helmed by Magnus the Red, built to chain instants and sorceries into overwhelming storm counts and token armies. The engine is circular: token producers like Young Pyromancer, Third Path Iconoclast, and Poppet Stitcher flood the board, which feeds Magnus's "Unearthly Power" cost reduction, which in turn makes longer spell chains affordable. The primary kill is the classic Underworld Breach + Reiterate + ritual loop, turning Seething Song or Battle Hymn into infinite red mana and Brain Freeze or Comet Storm into the finisher. Secondary lines lean on storm payoffs (Thousand-Year Storm, Ral, Crackling Wit's emblem), the lone extra-turn spell Alrund's Epiphany for a token beatdown swing, and X-burn in Crackle with Power. A dense counterspell suite (13 pieces, 6 free) protects the combo turn, while Mystical Tutor, Gamble, and Solve the Equation find the missing pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alrund's Epiphany
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Krenko's Command
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
  • 1 Ral's Reinforcements
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Sorcerer Class
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Young Pyromancer