Yidris by user9505246

Format: Commander

Commander: Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Wheel and Cascade Storm engine commanded by Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder. The strategy accelerates through dense 1-2 CMC ramp into an early commander attack or punisher deployment. Once Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder connects, every spell cast from hand cascades, rapidly chaining through rituals, selection spells, and wheels. Discard punishers like Liliana's Caress, Megrim, Raiders' Wake, and Waste Not convert symmetrical draw-7 effects (Windfall, Wheel of Misfortune, Dark Deal, Echo of Eons) into asymmetric life loss and massive mana generation. While the deck lacks stack-based countermagic and dedicated protection, its overwhelming card draw and high functional redundancy allow it to overwhelm opposing life totals by Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flow State
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oko, Thief of Crowns
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Raiders' Wake
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sol Talisman
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fate
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder