mages unite! by Middside

Format: Commander

Commander: Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Wizard tribal and spellslinger control build piloted by Inalla, Archmage Ritualist. It leverages Inalla's eminence ability from the command zone to duplicate Wizard enters-the-battlefield triggers, generating continuous tempo and card advantage. The primary strategy controls the early game using a premier suite of free and efficient countermagic, cantrips, and soft-stax creatures like Patron Wizard. As it hits its land drops, the deck digs toward its primary infinite loop: casting Ghostly Flicker and flashing in Naru Meha, Master Wizard. This combination generates infinite mana and an infinite army of hasty Wizard tokens, or triggers Inalla's life-drain ability to eliminate all three opponents in a single turn. Backed by redundant graveyard recursion and explosive secondary storm win conditions like Stormsplitter and Vivi Ornitier, the deck combines interactive control with high-inevitability combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Amphibian Downpour
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Borne Upon a Wind
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Disruptor of Currents
• 1 Dragonologist
• 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
• 1 Ertai Resurrected
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flashback
• 1 Flow State
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 1 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
• 6 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 1 Mizzix's Mastery
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1 Opt
• 1 Oscorp Industries
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Patron Wizard
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Riptide Laboratory
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
• 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Snap
• 1 Snapcaster Mage
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Step Through
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Stormsplitter
• 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Supreme Inquisitor
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Thundering Falls
• 1 Tribute Mage
• 1 Valley Floodcaller
• 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1 Vivi Ornitier
• 1 Will of the Jeskai
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Wizard's Staff