Magnus the Marxist by Borhammer

Format: Commander

Commander: Magnus the Red

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet spellslinger strategy piloted by Magnus the Red. The game plan revolves around generating a wide board of creature tokens using low-cost spells and permanents such as Young Pyromancer, Third Path Iconoclast, and Dragon Fodder. Once Magnus the Red enters the battlefield, each token provides a generic mana discount to your instant and sorcery spells. This discount turns expensive spells into hyper-efficient actions: draw spells like Pull from Tomorrow draw huge grips of cards for only {U}{U}, Curse of the Swine exiles entire opposing boards for minimal mana, and Battle Hymn produces massive bursts of red mana. The deck culminates in a decisive Turn 6 win by storming off with Fiery Inscription and Guttersnipe, or channeling massive mana into lethal multi-target burn spells like Jaya's Immolating Inferno and Comet Storm to eliminate all opponents in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Denied
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Capsize
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Forbidden Friendship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Goblin Negotiation
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Krenko's Command
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindswipe
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorcerer Class
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 1 Storm King's Thunder
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Young Pyromancer