It's Raining Spells! by Pentduh

Format: Commander

Commander: Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet Spellslinger and Storm combo deck commanded by Ral, Monsoon Mage. The primary game plan accelerates mana through cost reducers, rituals, and cantrips to execute decisive game-ending combos. The most direct route pairs Twinflame with Dualcaster Mage to generate infinite creature tokens with haste, eliminating all three opponents in a single combat step. Alternatively, the deck can storm off with Underworld Breach and Brain Freeze, milling the entire library to win with Thassa's Oracle or draining the table with Aetherflux Reservoir. While the deck generates high burst velocity and explosive card flow during combo turns, it operates at a casual-optimized power level due to tapland inclusions and the absence of high-end zero-drop fast mana artifacts. Its interaction suite uses targeted bounce, burn, and countermagic to protect its proactive turns while maintaining minimal stax elements.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dance with Calamity
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Discharge
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin War Party
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Ground Rift
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hordeling Outburst
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krenko's Command
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 1 Molten-Core Maestro
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prismari Campus
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Relentless Assault
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unholy Heat