Crystal by user7752814

Format: Commander

Commander: Crystal, Inhuman Princess

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 67

Deck overview

Crystal, Inhuman Princess helms a four-color spellslinger storm deck designed to win through explosive card draw and direct table burn. The core engine attaches a damage-triggered card-draw effect—such as Curiosity, Keen Sense, Ophidian Eye, Snake Umbra, or Tandem Lookout—to Crystal. Because Crystal deals noncombat damage to each opponent whenever a noncreature spell is cast, each cheap spell immediately draws three fresh cards. This massive card flow fuels a storm turn powered by low-cost cantrips, rituals like Rite of Flame and Jeska's Will, untap cantrips like Cerulean Wisps, and mana engines such as Birgi, God of Storytelling and Storm-Kiln Artist. The deck protects its combo turn using efficient silence effects like Silence, Voice of Victory, and Ranger-Captain of Eos, alongside free counterspells like Deflecting Swat and Fierce Guardianship. With Vivi Ornitier and Jeskai Ascendancy providing resilient backup plans, the deck consistently threatens a same-turn table kill on Turn 3.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cerulean Wisps
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crimson Wisps
  • 1 Crystal, Inhuman Princess
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedite
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 To Arms!
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vitalize
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast