Ral4theWin by user4332457

Format: Commander

Commander: Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet Spellslinger Storm combo list piloted by Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Ral early for consistent {1} generic mana reduction on all instants and sorceries, enabling rapid cantrip cycling and graveyard sculpting. The deck builds into an explosive Turn 5 storm turn powered by Underworld Breach, Bonus Round, or Storm-Kiln Artist. Victory is achieved through several redundant, non-passing lines: the infinite Magecraft loop of Storm-Kiln Artist and Haze of Rage, lethal storm counts with Grapeshot or Brain Freeze, or symmetric burnout via Guttersnipe and Fiery Inscription. While the deck operates at a blistering pace and possesses remarkable resilience through flashback and graveyard escape mechanics, it relies heavily on spell velocity, making it susceptible to Rule of Law stax effects, anti-storm countermagic, and dedicated graveyard interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Accumulate Wisdom
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Deliberate
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hall of Storm Giants
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 1 Highway Robbery
  • 1 Hithlain Knots
  • 1 Impulse
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Lilypad Village
  • 1 Lock and Load
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mental Modulation
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overmaster
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Perilous Research
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Siren's Ruse
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Tavern Scoundrel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Tidal Bore
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Underworld Breach