Chun Li by xxcoolguy35xx

Format: Commander

Commander: Zethi, Arcane Blademaster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Azorius Spellslinger list is piloted by Zethi, Arcane Blademaster, leveraging cheap instants to build an insurmountable resource engine and win through explosive combat swings or infinite combos. In the early game, low-cost cantrips and ramp sculpt the hand while filling the graveyard with versatile instants. On Turn 4, Zethi enters kicked to imprint cantrips, evasion, and protection spells. Attacking with Zethi casts copies of these exiled cards for free, creating recurring card advantage and triggering powerhouse payoff permanents like Monastery Mentor, Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Leonin Lightscribe. The deck protects its engine using a dense suite of cheap countermagic and targeted protection spells such as Loran's Escape and Teferi's Protection. It closes out games on Turn 7 by swarming the table with heavily pumped creature tokens under Akroma's Will, resolving an overloaded Cyclonic Rift, or executing an infinite mana loop via Ghostly Flicker and Naru Meha, Master Wizard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Leap
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Leonin Lightscribe
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Namor, Atlantean King
  • 1 Naru Meha, Master Wizard
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Niblis of Frost
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sentinel Tower
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Water Wings
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 You Come to a River
  • 1 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster