Blow Me Away - Breaking Benjamin by kujoprime

Format: Commander

Commander: Maelstrom Wanderer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Temur cascade midrange deck helmed by Maelstrom Wanderer. The plan is to ramp aggressively into high-MV cascade spells and the commander, converting free cascades into a sudden board of large creatures that immediately attack thanks to Wanderer's haste grant. Primary wins come from combat pressure backed by cascade chains off Apex Devastator, Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty, both Etali variants, and payoff enablers like Nalfeshnee and Keeper of Secrets. Secondary angles include poison via transformed Etali, Primal Conqueror, burst damage from Call Forth the Tempest/Volcanic Torrent, and value locks with Hullbreaker Horror. The deck plays as a classic "big mana, free spells, smash" strategy that explodes once it hits six-plus mana.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aurora Phoenix
  • 1 Averna, the Chaos Bloom
  • 1 Bigger on the Inside
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodbraid Challenger
  • 1 Bloodbraid Elf
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creative Technique
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flamekin Herald
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Forceful Denial
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Ultimatum
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Heralds of Tzeentch
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 Into the Time Vortex
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Natural Reclamation
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Noise Marine
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Release to the Wind
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shardless Agent
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sweet-Gum Recluse
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Throes of Chaos
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Volcanic Torrent
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World War Hulk