Iroh, Grand Lotus Original by user2180580

Format: Commander

Commander: Iroh, Grand Lotus

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur spellslinger/graveyard-casting strategy piloted by Iroh, Grand Lotus. The primary game plan revolves around milling cards to fill the graveyard, then leveraging Iroh's flashback ability to double-cast instants and sorceries each turn - non-Lesson cards from the graveyard once per turn, and Lesson cards for a single generic mana. The deck amasses value through tokens (Young Pyromancer, Storm-Kiln Artist), card draw (Chakra Meditation, Sokka, Bold Boomeranger), and land recursion (Splendid Reclamation, Aftermath Analyst). The kill is incremental: repeated burn from Fireball, Volcanic Geyser, Worldsoul's Rage, and combat damage boosted by Fiery Emancipation. Secondary paths include the extra turn from The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk (though its waterbend cost is prohibitive) and commander damage via Iroh himself, suiting up with Lightning Greaves or Whispersilk Cloak.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 Accumulate Wisdom
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Airship Engine Room
  • 1 Alexi's Cloak
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar Destiny
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chakra Meditation
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Claim the Firstborn
  • 1 Combustion Technique
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crashing Wave
  • 1 Cunning Maneuver
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Dragonfly Swarm
  • 1 Elemental Teachings
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fireball
  • 1 Firebending Lesson
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Hermitic Herbalist
  • 1 Honest Work
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration
  • 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
  • 8 Island
  • 1 It'll Quench Ya!
  • 1 Kinetic Augur
  • 1 Knowledge Seeker
  • 1 Leaves from the Vine
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Lost Days
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Master Pakku
  • 1 Meditation Pools
  • 1 Mica, Reader of Ruins
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mountain Valley
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightmares and Daydreams
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Omashu City
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Rakshasa's Disdain
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Secret of Bloodbending
  • 1 Seismic Sense
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sokka's Haiku
  • 1 Sokka, Bold Boomeranger
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sparring Dummy
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 True Ancestry
  • 1 Uncle Iroh
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Volcanic Geyser
  • 1 Waterbender's Restoration
  • 1 Waterbending Lesson
  • 1 Whirlwind Technique
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Worldsoul's Rage
  • 1 Young Pyromancer