Be Kind to Otters 🦦 by Dalquize9

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a tempo-oriented Izzet spellslinger deck helmed by Alania, Divergent Storm, blending Otter tribal payoffs with classic copy-and-storm patterns. Alania turns the first instant, first sorcery, and first non-Alania Otter each turn into free copies (at the mild cost of feeding an opponent a card), so every developed turn double-dips on rituals, draw, and removal. The 99 backs that plan with dense magecraft engines (Archmage Emeritus, Storm-Kiln Artist, Veyran, Voice of Duality, Harmonic Prodigy), extra copy outlets (Twinning Staff, Galvanic Iteration, Kitsa, Otterball Elite, Lutri, the Spellchaser), and explosive red mana (Mana Geyser, Seething Song, treasure chains). Primary wins are a large Crackle with Power, storm turns through Thousand-Year Storm or Ral, Crackling Wit's emblem, and go-wide prowess combat led by Stormsplitter and the Otter package. The deck plays as a mid-game storm deck that grinds value until one decisive copied turn ends the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Daring Waverider
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fantastic Elasticity
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Harnesser of Storms
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Pearl of Wisdom
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stormchaser's Talent
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality