Snake Dreams by user8164695

Format: Commander

Commander: Xyris, the Writhing Storm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur token swarm and wheel strategy built around Xyris, the Writhing Storm. The game plan revolves around accelerating into Xyris on Turn 4-5, equipping it with unblockability or haste, and triggering mass card draw effects like Magus of the Wheel, Will of the Jeskai, and Teferi's Puzzle Box. Each extra card drawn by opponents yields a 1/1 green Snake creature token. Once a critical mass of 15 to 20+ Snakes is created, the deck converts the wide board into lethal damage via asymmetric pump effects such as Shared Animosity, overloaded Scale Up, unblockable evasion from Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive, or direct enter-the-battlefield burn from Impact Tremors and Slash, Reptile Rampager. Backed by countermagic and targeted protection, the deck reliably pressures the entire table on Turn 6 and closes the game on Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Tunnel
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Careful Consideration
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Citanul Hierophants
  • 1 Colossification
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Combine Chrysalis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Delina, Wild Mage
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Even the Score
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flux
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Indomitable Might
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Key to the Side-Door
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lavaleaper
  • 1 Leyline Axe
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Might of the Masses
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nerd Rage
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scale Up
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Security Bypass
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Signal the Clans
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slash, Reptile Rampager
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strength in Numbers
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tower Winder
  • 1 Tuktuk Rubblefort
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Xyris, the Writhing Storm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 You Come to a River
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus