Crystal Clear Control by Lane

Format: Commander

Commander: Crystal, Inhuman Princess

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Crystal, Inhuman Princess leads a four-color cantrip-storm deck that blends the "targets a creature you control" package with tempo pings and a wide token finish. The plan is to resolve Crystal early - she both taps for any of the four colors and turns every noncreature spell into a table-wide shock - then deploy a copy engine like Zada, Hedron Grinder, Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief, or Feather, Radiant Arbiter to turn each cheap cantrip into a chain of copies that draws cards, makes tokens, and refuels the hand. The deck closes through combat: a pumped Human Torch with double strike deals its damage to each other opponent, Aragorn, the Uniter racks up red-spell pings, and the token swarm from Kykar, Wind's Fury, Monastery Mentor, and Third Path Iconoclast swings for the rest. It is a fast, low-curve (2.60 MV) storm-style deck that wins in one explosive turn rather than grinding.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Angelfire Ignition
  • 1 Aragorn, the Uniter
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Charge Through
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Crystal, Inhuman Princess
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dack Fayden
  • 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
  • 1 Emberheart Challenger
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Feather, Radiant Arbiter
  • 1 Feather, the Redeemed
  • 1 Flick a Coin
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gathering Place
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Human Torch
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Invisible Woman
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Kykar, Wind's Fury
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Might of the Meek
  • 1 Mister Fantastic
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Monstrous Rage
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nature's Way
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Oracle's Restoration
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Playful Shove
  • 1 Poison the Blade
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Reckless Ransacking
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Renegade Tactics
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Stormchaser Drake
  • 1 Sudden Breakthrough
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Thing
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Twisted Image
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Verdant Rebirth
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Voracious Bibliophile
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zada, Hedron Grinder