Be Kind to Otters 🦦 by sirdalquize

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger storm deck commanded by Alania, Divergent Storm. It aims to copy high-impact instants, sorceries, and Otter spells while leveraging Magecraft triggers to generate overwhelming card advantage and mana. The early game focuses on setting up mana rocks, cost reducers, and cantrips to filter through the library. During the mid-game, the deck deploys synergistic engines such as Archmage Emeritus, Storm-Kiln Artist, or Veyran, Voice of Duality to build massive card advantage and Treasure stockpiles. On its critical turn, usually around Turn 6, the deck chains rituals like Mana Geyser and Seething Song into graveyard recursion engines like Past in Flames. It secures a same-turn victory through explosive win conditions such as a copied Crackle with Power, repeated burn from Coruscation Mage, or an exponential army of hasty Stormsplitter copies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Daring Waverider
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pearl of Wisdom
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Stormchaser's Talent
  • 1 Stormsplitter
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Wizard's Staff