cEDH Krak Ikra Storm by Buddadragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Krark, the Thumbless and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This is a fast, tutor-supported combo deck built around Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame. With Witherbloom Apprentice already in play, the combo copies Twinflame indefinitely and produces unlimited magecraft triggers, causing all opponents to lose the game during the same turn. The list can also use Krark, the Thumbless, Krark's Thumb, rituals, and storm payoffs such as Tendrils of Agony or Grapeshot as a backup route. Its strongest feature is mana velocity: Mana Vault, Sol Ring, the Moxen, Lotus Petal, and several rituals support early development. Tutors are plentiful, but Twinflame remains a specific noncreature requirement that creature tutors cannot find. The deck has strong but uneven interaction, especially against blue decks, and its primary combo is vulnerable to correctly timed removal or countermagic. The partner commanders provide access to colors and useful backup value, but the main win does not require casting either commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krark's Thumb
  • 1 Krark, the Thumbless
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tavern Scoundrel
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wooded Foothills