Paradox Yidris by Zol

Format: Commander

Commander: Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This is a Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder cascade deck built around connecting in combat and converting later hand-cast spells into free cascade spells. The strongest ordinary line uses Sol Ring, a Talisman, or land ramp to reach four-color mana, then deploys Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder with Lightning Greaves or another haste or evasion effect. A successful hit creates substantial card and mana advantage, especially with Into the Time Vortex, Apex Devastator, Etali, Primal Storm, or Rashmi, Eternities Crafter. The deck has useful interaction and several cards that cast spells from unusual zones, but its mana base is slow, its tutor coverage is poor, and its cascade results are not deterministic. It can produce impressive high-roll turns, yet it does not reliably convert those turns into a three-player kill or a lock. Its practical game plan is value-focused cascade midrange rather than competitive combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Apex Devastator
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bigger on the Inside
• 1 Blazing Crescendo
• 1 Bloodbraid Challenger
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Cloak of the Bat
• 1 Combat Celebrant
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crosis's Catacombs
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1 Energybending
• 1 Essence Scatter
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Evolution Charm
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Ferrous Lake
• 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 3 Forest
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Haste Magic
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hex Magic
• 1 Impending Flux
• 1 Into the Time Vortex
• 1 Iraxxa, Empress of Mars
• 3 Island
• 1 It'll Quench Ya!
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Memory Worm
• 1 Moonsilver Key
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 3 Mountain
• 1 New Horizons
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Opt
• 1 Perigee Beckoner
• 1 Plargg and Nassari
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Return the Past
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rousing Refrain
• 1 Scrounge for Eternity
• 1 Shadow of the Enemy
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Slip Through Space
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sol Talisman
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spider-Man 2099
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Surge of Brilliance
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 The Foretold Soldier
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 The Thirteenth Doctor
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yasmin Khan
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder