Xyris buffs by user9592487

Format: Commander

Commander: Xyris, the Writhing Storm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Temur combat-trick deck built around Xyris, the Writhing Storm, aiming to connect with the commander to generate a massive army of 1/1 Snake tokens. The primary game plan is to deploy Xyris, pump it with a dense suite of cheap instant-speed spells (Giant Growth, Temur Battle Rage, Invigorate), and use double strike or extra combat effects to draw cards for both players, each non-first-draw-step card drawn by an opponent creating a Snake. The Snake tokens then become the deck's secondary threat base, enabling go-wide attacks with Shared Animosity or pinging the table with Impact Tremors and Molten Gatekeeper. The deck lacks traditional infinite combos and relies on incremental combat damage, supported by a handful of utility creatures like Stormchaser Drake and Cold-Eyed Selkie for card flow. The commander is the engine and the primary win condition, making its continuous presence critical.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Armed // Dangerous
  • 1 Become Immense
  • 1 Biomass Mutation
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bladegriff Prototype
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Brute Force
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Collision // Colossus
  • 1 Colossal Growth
  • 1 Combine Chrysalis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Hunger
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decisive Denial
  • 1 Deeproot Wayfinder
  • 1 Djinn Illuminatus
  • 1 Esix, Fractal Bloom
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fully Grown
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Get a Leg Up
  • 1 Giant Growth
  • 1 Groundswell
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Invigorate
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Joint Exploration
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Kaseto, Orochi Archmage
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Moonlit Meditation
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mutagenic Growth
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Oakhame Adversary
  • 1 Ohran Viper
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Roar of Challenge
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Stormchaser Drake
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sword of the Squeak
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Temur Charm
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan's Strength
  • 1 Titanic Growth
  • 1 Trygon Predator
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Vines of Vastwood
  • 1 Xyris, the Writhing Storm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast