Jori En, Pyromancer

Commander / EDH Control UR (Izzet)

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Instant (31)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Geistblast
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Magma Jet
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Overwhelming Denial
• 1x Prophetic Bolt
• 1x Punishing Fire
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Urza's Rage

Land (33)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Highland Lake
• 9x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Kher Keep
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Epiphany

Artifact (15)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Magebane Armor
• 1x Mizzium Transreliquat
• 1x Pyromancer's Gauntlet
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Trail of Evidence

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The Cantrip Commander

"Some relic hunters have given up exploring and gone to fight the Eldrazi. But I know our work is more important than ever. The secrets we uncover could lead to the world's salvation."

Our heroine may not be the flashiest Izzet commander. She doesn't ride in a robotic spider or hurl lightning bolts from the enchanted skies of Theros. What Jori En does is dive under the radar. If your table sees Jori En as nonthreatening, perfect! This will buy her time to pursue her quest.

Armed with her trusty Expedition Map , Jori En is on a quest for relics. Amidst Buried Ruin s and sinking Reliquary Tower s... Deep within the undersea ruins of this 100-card commander deck are a handful of lost artifacts:

• Weapons: Sphinx-Bone Wand , Pyromancer's Gauntlet , and Pyromancer's Goggles combine to empower her tiny lightning bolts and fireballs into something that can actually take down a 40-health opponent. Runechanter's Pike turns the aftermath of her Izzet fireworks into a lasting weapon.
• Armor: Darksteel Plate and Magebane Armor keep Jori En alive while she blasts the field with Chain Reaction s and Blasphemous Act s.
• Treasures: The classic Sensei's Divining Top can lead her to the other treasures. Isochron Scepter can be loaded up with the vast majority of the spells Jori En uses. And of course, the mysterious Mizzium Transreliquat can be whatever you want it to be. Just like Jori En as a commander!

Dive Deep

How will Jori En find these relics? Through a kind of magic that is famously not powerful enough for this format: card filtering and cantrips. A majority of spells in this deck draw a card, most select from the top, and some tack on additional benefits as well. The low, low mana costs and abundance of instants mean that you can trigger her bonus draw on multiple turns, not just your own. Between several flashback spells and an imprinted scepter, you'll always have that second spell ready for Jori En's bonus.

Fire and Lightning

As her flavor text suggests, Jori En's allies have abandoned her to fight the Eldrazi. As the sole creature in the deck, how will she even the odds? Why, through the other kind of magic famously not powerful enough for this format: burn! These little lightning bolts go farther than you'd expect, particularly when copied or boosted by her pyromantic accessories. And in an emergency, she can always retreat into her Riptide Laboratory to regroup.

Jori En's Journey's End

Jori En's primary win condition is to use the artifact weapons described above. However, once fully armed and primed with a graveyard full of spells, Mizzix's Mastery or Past in Flames can go off like an artillery salvo--even without a sphinx tail or goggles. Infinite damage by way of Reiterate , Mana Geyser , and/or Turnabout can end games with a bang.

Alternate win conditions include clever uses of Rite of Replication , a big mana Comet Storm , or skewering an opponent with a Runechanter's Pike for lethal commander damage after wiping the board clean.

Jori En is my new favorite commander. In the early game, she is basically Jubilee, but by the end of a game, she can go full-on Storm. (Speaking of which, there's always Grapeshot as a finisher!) I've chosen to build her as a cantrip specialist because I love playing underdog strategies, but you can easily do artifact-centric or tribal with her. Please share any suggestions or questions, and feel free to link me to your own Jori En decks.

Thanks for reading!

Top Ranked	Achieved #40 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.99
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Edh decks, Commander Folder, Jori En, U/R Izzet, Inspiration, Commander decks that inspire!, decvks i totally cant buy
Based on	Sparks and Embers (Keranos) tabletopography EDH