Unblocking Mountain River by user3479236

Format: Commander

Commander: Bria, Riptide Rogue

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Izzet prowess-tempo deck built around Bria, Riptide Rogue, turning every noncreature spell into both a global +1/+1 pump and an unblockable attack trigger. The plan is to flood the board with cheap prowess creatures and token makers such as Monastery Swiftspear, Young Pyromancer, and Talrand, Sky Summoner, then chain one-mana pump spells and cantrips into a single lethal combat step. Force multipliers like Zada, Hedron Grinder, Mirrorwing Dragon, and Leyline of Resonance convert a single targeted pump into a team-wide copy burst, with Veyran, Voice of Duality and Harmonic Prodigy magnifying every trigger. The deck wins through combat damage, with Prismari, the Inspiration and Ral, Crackling Wit providing a late-game storm payoff. It is extremely low to the ground, but it has no true tutors and relatively little card draw beyond filtering.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aetherspouts
  • 1 Antagonize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Brute Force
  • 1 Brute Strength
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Drake Hatcher
  • 1 Dreadmaw's Ire
  • 1 Dwight, Assistant (to the) King
  • 1 Echoing Ruin
  • 1 Echoing Truth
  • 1 Empress Galina
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Haste Magic
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Leyline of Resonance
  • 1 Mirrorwing Dragon
  • 1 Molten Lavamancer
  • 1 Monastery Swiftspear
  • 1 Monstrous Rage
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Quicksilver Elemental
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Reckless Ransacking
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Remove Soul
  • 1 Rig for War
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Slickshot Show-Off
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stormchaser's Talent
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Titan's Strength
  • 1 Turn Inside Out
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Wild Ride
  • 1 Young Pyromancer
  • 1 Zada, Hedron Grinder