Azula by anonza

Format: Commander

Commander: Fire Lord Azula

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Grixis Spellslinger deck combines storm combo finishes with spell-copying mechanics led by Fire Lord Azula. The primary game plan accelerates mana through efficient artifacts and rituals to assemble Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal. Once active on Turn 4 alongside positive mana rocks like Sol Ring or Arcane Signet, this loop generates infinite mana and storm count, enabling immediate table-wide wins via Brain Freeze, Grapeshot, or Fiery Inscription. As a secondary plan, Fire Lord Azula adds combat mana through Firebending and copies spells cast while attacking, amplifying extra-turn spells like Time Warp and large mill sorceries. A robust interaction package featuring Fierce Guardianship, Mana Drain, and Deadly Rollick safeguards combo assembly and disrupts opposing threats. While vulnerable to artifact hate and stax pieces that restrict spell casting, dense tutoring and card draw engines ensure rapid assembly and resilient recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Display of Power
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Lord Azula
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 2 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 2 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizards of Thay