Jori En, Ruin Diver: Spellslinger

Commander / EDH Storm UR (Izzet)

JakeHarlow

Instant (29)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Daze
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fire / Ice
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Gush
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Mental Note
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Opt
• 1x Peek
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Reach Through Mists
• 1x Remand
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Twisted Image
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rhystic Study

Land (32)

• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Great Furnace
• 11x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Tolaria West

Creature (13)

• 1x Blistercoil Weird
• 1x Gelectrode
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Nivmagus Elemental
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Empty the Warrens
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Ideas Unbound
• 1x Magmatic Insight
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Slip Through Space
• 1x Vandalblast

Artifact (6)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity

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Instant (35)

• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Desperate Ravings
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Everdream
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gut Shot
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Illusion of Choice
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Leap
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Perilous Research
• 2x Predict
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Radical Idea
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Snap
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Whir of Invention
• 1x Whispers of the Muse
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Ral Zarek

Sorcery (32)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Aquitect's Will
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Cloak of Feathers
• 1x Collected Conjuring
• 1x Crash Through
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Forget
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ignite Memories
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Overmaster
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Portent
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Savor the Moment
• 1x See Beyond
• 1x Shreds of Sanity
• 1x Sorcerous Sight
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Warlord's Fury
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Windfall

Land (6)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Volcanic Island

Creature (14)

• 1x Bazaar Trademage
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Electrostatic Field
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Storm Entity
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

Artifact (13)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mizzium Transreliquat
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand
• 1x The Magic Mirror

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Aria of Flame
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Precognition Field
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

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Jori En, Ruin Diver as your commander. This is a spellslinger-style tempo deck that usually wants to win through spell value or big Storm plays.

This is about the closest I could get to building a "fair" Storm list in Commander without making it completely underpowered. Many of the big, game-winning Storm plays involve chaining cheap cantrips using mana generated from a Paradise Mantle-equipped creature that untaps whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell (such as Thermo-Alchemist). If you can get two such creatures in play and copy Paradise Mantle with Saheeli Rai, you can often cast almost every spell in the deck (multiple times with effects like Mizzix's Mastery and Past in Flames) in a single turn. This enables you to hit Storm Count 40+ with ease. While doing this, it's easy to get kills with Sentinel Tower, Aetherflux Reservoir, Guttersnipe, etc. Another angle of attack could be to achieve a high Storm Count, cast a Storm spell (even Flusterstorm), exile every copy on the stack to feed Nivmagus Elemental, then attack unblockably by finding Slip Through Space. Simply trying to win through non-Storm, incremental spell value is also a viable line.

Your opponents will probably complain a lot when you execute a Storm turn, since these can take several minutes to execute. You will usually need to keep track of several triggers entering the stack at once (repeatedly), floating mana, Storm Count, instant and sorcery count, and other effects. You'll often have to respond to your own triggers in order to get the best value from your plays (usually tapping your untapped spell-synergy creatures like Gelectrode in response to a bunch of spells being cast at once -- as is often the case with an overloaded Mizzix's Mastery). Bring lots of dice, including several differently-colored countdown-style d20s, as this will help immensely with keeping track of all of the above information during a complex Storm turn.

The deck list is very straightforward and self-explanatory. I don't think it's necessary for me to run through all the cards.

Further Ideas

Perhaps it's worth finding room for artifact-cloning effects such as Copy Artifact and Mizzium Transreliquat, since Paradise Mantle is such a vital piece for most of the Storm lines. Having the ability to permanently copy Paradise Mantle might provide a further hedge against the inevitable removal that will be aimed at it once opponents realize its importance to our plan (though we have a decent suite of countermagic to help stop this already). Copy Artifact is better than Saheeli Rai in that it's a permanent effect, cheaper, and searchable via transmuting Muddle the Mixture. Mizzium Transreliquat is better than Saheeli in that it's a permanent effect, and searchable via Fabricate.

Top Ranked	Achieved #55 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.03
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Goblin 1/1 R, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Commander, Commander