Be Kind to Otters 🦦 by Dalquize2

Format: Commander

Commander: Alania, Divergent Storm

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger storm deck commanded by Alania, Divergent Storm. It focuses on generating massive mana and card velocity through Magecraft creatures, cost-reduction effects, and cheap cantrips. The game plan centers on ramping into a core engine permanent on Turn 4, such as Storm-Kiln Artist or Archmage Emeritus, then executing an explosive storm turn on Turn 5. By chaining ritual spells like Mana Geyser and Seething Song alongside graveyard recursion like Underworld Breach and Past in Flames, the deck rapidly scales its spell count. It finishes the game in a single turn by casting a lethal, copied Crackle with Power or repeatedly triggering Coruscation Mage. A lean counterspell suite defends the combo turn against opposing interaction, while redundant creature engines ensure the deck performs seamlessly even without its commander on the battlefield.

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 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 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 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 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 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thundertrap Trainer
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Wizard's Staff