LET'S GO GAMBLING by Kidman

Format: Commander

Commander: Yusri, Fortune's Flame

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Yusri, Fortune's Flame Izzet "coin-flip chaos control" deck that leans hard into the commander's attack trigger as both a card-draw engine and a free-cast enabler. The median game is: cast Yusri on turn 3, suit him up with cheap protection/equipment, and attack every turn - banking cards when you win flips, and occasionally hitting the five-flip jackpot to vomit your hand for free. The deck pairs Yusri with attack-trigger bomb creatures in Etali, Primal Storm, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Delina, Wild Mage, and Master of Predicaments to multiply the free-value theme, and it uses a "whenever you draw a card" package - Toothy, Imaginary Friend, Chasm Skulker, Ominous Seas, Wizard Class - to translate the coin-flip draws into board presence. Wins come through accumulated combat damage from a big flying Yusri, a grown Toothy/Chasm Skulker, and direct-damage closers like Prisoner's Dilemma, Mob Verdict, and Descent into Avernus. It is a mid-power, high-variance, commander-centric value deck rather than a combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstergo Entertainment
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Audacious Swap
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Batterbone
  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Capricious Efreet
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Chef's Kiss
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creepy Doll
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delina, Wild Mage
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dissection Tools
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Drake Familiar
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fickle Efreet
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 1 Goblin Archaeologist
  • 1 Goblin Assassin
  • 1 Goblin Kaboomist
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Ivory Tower
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Mitotic Manipulation
  • 1 Mob Verdict
  • 1 Mogg Assassin
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mysterious Stranger
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Pip-Boy 3000
  • 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1 Red Death, Shipwrecker
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resurrection Orb
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shifting Shadow
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stitch in Time
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tavern Scoundrel
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Territorial Hellkite
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toothy, Imaginary Friend
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transforming Flourish
  • 1 Triple Triad
  • 1 Vault 21: House Gambit
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 Volcanic Offering
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Wily Goblin
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Yusri, Fortune's Flame
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter