Lightning by Anubi

Format: Commander

Commander: Lightning, Army of One

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Lightning, Army of One is an equipment/combat commander whose Stagger doubles all further damage to whichever opponent it has just hit. The practical hidden commander is Twinflame Tyrant: it turns Heartless Hidetsugu into a 40-damage one-shot and makes Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar plus extra combat a one-turn spread kill. Lightning is both the enabler and the fallback voltron threat; Buster Sword and Duelist's Heritage make its hits large enough to use Stagger, while protection spells keep the fragile combo pieces alive. Secondary plans are pinger/burn chip damage, Dragon tokens from Rite of the Dragoncaller, and equip/double-strike beats with Reyav, Lizard Blades, or Helm of the Host.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abraded Bluffs
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aether Membrane
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Balefire Liege
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Cataclysm
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Choco-Comet
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conformer Shuriken
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Death Kiss
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Demonfire
  • 1 Distinguished Conjurer
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Festival of Embers
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Fleeting Flight
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Galvanic Relay
  • 1 Ghostfire Slice
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Hunter's Blowgun
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Lightning, Army of One
  • 1 Lizard Blades
  • 1 Lorehold, the Historian
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Nibelheim Aflame
  • 1 Pacifism
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Renegade Tactics
  • 1 Reyav, Master Smith
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Skewer the Critics
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spellgorger Weird
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Take Up the Shield
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Jolly Balloon Man
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thunder Magic
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal
  • 1 Vincent, Vengeful Atoner
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag