Cycling by LeonLopez

Format: Commander

Commander: Shabraz, the Skyshark and Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck leverages partner commanders Brallin, Skyshark Rider and Shabraz, the Skyshark to execute a synergistic cycling and card-draw midrange game plan. The deck contains over 30 cards with cycling, allowing it to churn through its library with high velocity while smoothing land drops and digging for core engines. It converts draw and discard triggers into wide flying token swarms via The Locust God, Shark Typhoon, Drake Haven, and Ominous Seas, while Brallin, Skyshark Rider and Psychosis Crawler provide substantial asymmetric burn to all opponents simultaneously. The deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 6 with big draw engines like New Perspectives or wheels like Windfall, closing games by Turn 8 through evasive aerial combat and direct damage bursts from Zenith Flare. It maintains strong resilience through partner commander redundancy and broad board wipes, though it remains vulnerable to targeted creature removal and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abandoned Sarcophagus
• 1 Akroma's Vengeance
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Astral Drift
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bag of Holding
• 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Brallin, Skyshark Rider
• 1 Cast Out
• 1 Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Countervailing Winds
• 1 Crystalline Resonance
• 1 Curator of Mysteries
• 1 Decree of Justice
• 1 Descend upon the Sinful
• 1 Desert of the Fervent
• 1 Desert of the Mindful
• 1 Desert of the True
• 1 Dismantling Wave
• 1 Drake Haven
• 1 Drifting Meadow
• 1 Eternal Dragon
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Fluctuator
• 1 Forgotten Cave
• 1 Forsake the Worldly
• 1 Gavi, Nest Warden
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Herald of the Forgotten
• 1 Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 1 Homunculus Horde
• 1 Improbable Alliance
• 1 Irrigated Farmland
• 5 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Kykar, Wind's Fury
• 1 Lightning Rift
• 1 Lonely Sandbar
• 1 Marauding Mako
• 1 Mischievous Mystic
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Monastery
• 1 Neutralize
• 1 New Perspectives
• 1 Nimble Obstructionist
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1 Ominous Seas
• 1 Perilous Landscape
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Raugrin Crystal
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Remote Isle
• 1 Rooting Moloch
• 1 Savai Thundermane
• 1 Secluded Steppe
• 1 Shabraz, the Skyshark
• 1 Shark Typhoon
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Slice and Dice
• 1 Smoldering Crater
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Surly Badgersaur
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tectonic Reformation
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The Locust God
• 1 Valiant Rescuer
• 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Yidaro, Wandering Monster
• 1 Zenith Flare