Group Hug? by bbrew99

Format: Commander

Commander: Itazura, Lingering Wick

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a chaotic Izzet politics and noncombat-damage deck helmed by Itazura, Lingering Wick. The core plan leverages Itazura's upkeep trigger-exiling the top three cards, baiting opponents into high secret bids for free casts, and converting those bids into direct damage plus a free card in hand-while layering damage multipliers (Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Twinflame Tyrant, Fiery Emancipation, City on Fire) and extra-upkeep engines (Paradox Haze, Shadow of the Second Sun, Strionic Resonator). Secondary axes include donating aggressive bodies (Slicer, Hired Muscle, Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos, Kharn the Betrayer) that attack the table for you, group-resource engines that punish greed (Descent into Avernus, Fevered Visions, Mana Flare), and big free-cast payoffs (Omniscience, Show and Tell, Blightsteel Colossus). The deck wins by multiplying ping and bid damage across the pod rather than through infinite combos, playing as a midrange chaos-control list that thrives on table politics and stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abduction
• 1 Accursed Duneyard
• 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
• 1 Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Audacious Swap
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1 Brand
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 City on Fire
• 1 Combustible Gearhulk
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Coveted Falcon
• 1 Curse of Echoes
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Descent into Avernus
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Ensnared by the Mara
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 FAS-BOR7 Horus
• 1 Fevered Visions
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 1 Hide on the Ceiling
• 1 Homeward Path
• 1 Humble Defector
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 1 Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
• 1 Invert Polarity
• 6 Island
• 1 Itazura, Lingering Wick
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Khârn the Betrayer
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
• 1 Mana Flare
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 One with the Multiverse
• 1 Paradox Haze
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
• 1 Pyroblast
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Red Death, Shipwrecker
• 1 Release to the Wind
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Show and Tell
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Spaceshift
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Star of Extinction
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Tempt with Mayhem
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Treasonous Ogre
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Turbulent Springs
• 1 Twinflame Tyrant
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Well of Ideas
• 1 Zoyowa's Justice