Mean Girl Colors by Fayzee

Format: Commander

Commander: Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger strategy built around Zevlor, Elturel Exile, designed to turn powerful single-target instants and sorceries into asymmetric, table-wide blowouts. The early game focuses on establishing mana acceleration and cost reducers such as Baral, Chief of Compliance, Goblin Electromancer, and Training Grounds. Because Zevlor possesses native haste, he can be cast and activated in the same turn once sufficient mana is available. On Turns 5–6, the deck activates Zevlor to copy devastating spells like Cruel Ultimatum, Rush of Dread, Bribery, and Exhaustion for each opponent. This generates overwhelming card advantage, strips opposing hands and boards, and locks down resources. While lacking dedicated 2-card infinite combos and universal tutors, the deck closes games reliably around Turn 8 through stolen creatures, Magecraft triggers from Storm-Kiln Artist and Guttersnipe, or large mana bursts into Rakdos's Return.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Choice of Damnations
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Ultimatum
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exhaustion
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exterminator Magmarch
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flick a Coin
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Great Intelligence's Plan
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hurl Through Hell
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Knowledge Exploitation
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Radiate
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos's Return
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Worst Fears
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zevlor, Elturel Exile