Magnus by Thiqqmeister

Format: Commander

Commander: Magnus the Red

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Izzet spellslinger deck helmed by Magnus the Red, built to generate a critical mass of creature tokens, reduce spell costs, and chain cheap instants and sorceries into explosive turns. The primary game plan involves deploying early token producers like Young Pyromancer and Talrand, Sky Summoner, then using Magnus's cost-reduction ability (scaling with each token) to cast multiple spells per turn, eventually fueling rituals, copy effects, and storm-style payoffs. The deck wins through direct damage from Guttersnipe and Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch, mass token swarms via Empty the Warrens or Haze of Rage, or a single massive burn spell like Crackle with Power. A secondary infinite-mana combo exists with Reiterate and Seething Song, but the deck's thin tutor suite makes it unreliable. The commander is a value piece that provides additional tokens on combat damage, but the core engine lives in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Access Denied
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Enter the Infinite
  • 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Ral's Reinforcements
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Sorcerer Class
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Stolen by the Fae
  • 1 Storm King's Thunder
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Young Pyromancer