You Were Never Even a Player by malcolmga

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis combat-storm deck built around one rule: while Fire Lord Azula is attacking, every spell you cast is copied. Her attack trigger also floats {R}{R} through combat, turning each combat step into a mana-generation and spell-doubling engine. The deck aims for a same-turn kill: cast Azula on turn 3-4, attack, then chain copied rituals (Seething Song, Desperate Ritual), a copied Great Train Heist for multiple extra combats, copied draw spells (Big Score, Frantic Search, Unexpected Windfall), and storm payoffs in Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, and Muse Seeker. Secondary lines include the infinite Twinflame + Dualcaster Mage hasty-token loop, Underworld Breach recursion fueling rituals, and a copied Nexus of Fate for extra turns. It is fast, fragile, and relentless when the chain gets going.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Darkness of Eternity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Invoke Calamity
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Might of the Meek
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Muse Seeker
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Peer Through Depths
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sazacap's Brew
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment