Fun by Honkai999

Format: Commander

Commander: Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Izzet spellslinger value deck helmed by Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer, whose top-deck casting ability turns every scry/cantrip into virtual card advantage. The primary plan is to deploy a critical mass of "pinger" creatures - Guttersnipe, Firebrand Archer, Erebor Flamesmith, Thermo-Alchemist, and Unruly Catapult - then chain cheap instants and sorceries to drain the table while generating incidental tokens from Third Path Iconoclast and Murmuring Mystic. Card flow is supplied by a deep draw suite (Archmage Emeritus, Academy Wall, Merfolk Looter, Artist's Talent, Niv-Mizzet, Parun). The deck finishes through incremental pinger damage, a token swarm buffed by Balmor, Battlemage Captain, or a big explosive turn with Mizzix's Mastery overload or a stormed Empty the Warrens. There are no infinite combos; this is a grind-value deck that wins through sheer spell volume.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Wall
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Aspirant's Ascent
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Brackish Blunder
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collective Defiance
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Deliberate
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Don't Make a Sound
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Frantic Firebolt
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Geyser Drake
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Impulse
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer
  • 1 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 1 Moment of Truth
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pelargir Survivor
  • 1 Quarrel's End
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Ral's Reinforcements
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Rodeo Pyromancers
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smite the Deathless
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Interference
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Unauthorized Exit
  • 1 Unruly Catapult
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Volcanic Spite
  • 1 Whoosh!
  • 1 Witch's Mark
  • 1 Wrenn's Resolve