Ozai Hates Land - Current by user7484551

Format: Commander

Commander: Ozai, the Phoenix King

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Ozai, the Phoenix King fronts a Rakdos big-mana denial deck: accelerate into a hasty 7/7, let his firebending bank four red mana that his own replacement effect never lets empty, then convert the stored pool into a pod-killing X spell or an endless chain of extra combats. The 99 reinforces that plan with over a dozen rituals and mana effects, plus a land-destruction/punisher suite - Blood Moon, Ruination, Price of Progress, Manabarbs, Strip Mine, Wasteland - that strangles greedy mana bases. Death Cloud, Jokulhaups, and Obliterate reset the board asymmetrically: Ozai stands as an indestructible flier whenever six or more unspent red is held, and the red pool itself survives the reset. Primary wins are Aggravated Assault-driven infinite combat commander damage, Torment of Hailfire/Exsanguinate drains, and Underworld Breach ritual recursion. Hidden commanders Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion and Zuko, Exiled Prince act as backup firebenders.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Anarchy
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Bedeck // Bedazzle
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Boom // Bust
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Burnout
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Death Cloud
  • 1 Deathmark
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Doubling Cube
  • 1 Dwarven Miner
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Elixir
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Inner Fire
  • 1 Irencrag Feat
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jokulhaups
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Obsidian Fireheart
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Mine
  • 1 Orcish Settlers
  • 1 Ozai, the Phoenix King
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Raiding Party
  • 1 Rancid Earth
  • 1 Raze to the Ground
  • 1 Rodeo Pyromancers
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Ruthless Invasion
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Uncontrolled Infestation
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Zuko, Conflicted
  • 1 Zuko, Exiled Prince