Aegar's Giant Burn

Commander / EDH UR (Izzet)

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Creature (29)

• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Basalt Ravager
• 1x Bloodfire Colossus
• 1x Bonecrusher Giant
• 1x Calamity Bearer
• 1x Chandra's Incinerator
• 1x Crystalline Giant
• 1x Cyclone Summoner
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Gadwick, the Wizened
• 1x Hammerfist Giant
• 1x Hammerheim Deadeye
• 1x Hostility
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Magma Giant
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Quakebringer
• 1x Shatterskull Charger
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Stinkdrinker Daredevil
• 1x Sunrise Sovereign
• 1x Surtland Flinger
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Tectonic Giant
• 1x Thryx, the Sudden Storm
• 1x Thundercloud Shaman
• 1x Warchief Giant

Instant (19)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Beacon of Destruction
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Crush Underfoot
• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Essence Backlash
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Incinerate
• 1x Ionize
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Prophetic Bolt
• 1x Psionic Blast
• 1x Squash
• 1x Suffocating Blast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turn / Burn
• 1x Volcanic Fallout
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Land (35)

• 1x Command Tower
• 14x Island
• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 14x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Surtland Frostpyre
• 1x Training Center

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Alrund's Epiphany
• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Fireball
• 1x Giant's Ire
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Purphoros's Intervention
• 1x Storm's Wrath

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Battle of Frost and Fire
• 1x Roiling Vortex

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

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I'd always wanted a Giant deck, but none of the Giant commanders really moved me. Then Aegar appeared recently, and I fell in love. I used to have a Keranos burn deck, but it felt clunky, and the commander wasn't all that synergistic with what I wanted to do. Aegar incentivizes all my damage-based removal, and even synergizes with the X-based removal scaling over the course of the game. I didn't have to make that many changes to the original UR burn deck; I just added a bunch of Giants!

Every nonland card in this deck can deal damage, whether it be the bird from Swan Song , the birds from Alrund's Epiphany , the creatures, or from a classic Lightning Bolt . Being a damage-dealing deck, aka Burn, we can win through direct damage to our opponents. Spells like Comet Storm and Giant's Ire usually end up finishing off low-life opponents. However, we put the most pressure on life totals by attacking with our high-powered Giants (and a few useful Wizards, too).

Our Giants have a lot of synergy. Calamity Bearer is a damage-doubler for a third of our deck, even for our upkeep-pinging Quakebringer . Sunrise Sovereign remedies the problem of our powerful Giants not having trample, while Cyclone Summoner can clear the board of blockers completely (most of the time). Giants like Hammerfist Giant , Magma Giant and Thundercloud Shaman double as removal, potentially being one-sided boardwipes. This includes my favorite Giant, Bloodfire Colossus , who sacs himself to deal 6 to everything!

We refill our hand pretty easily in this deck. For 3+ mana, we play Aegar, and then wipe the board with spells like Blasphemous Act . For each of our opponents' creatures we deal excess damage to, we draw a card. It is important to save our high-damage boardwipes for boards full of creatures, so that we aren't killing Aegar just to draw a few cards. Yup, most of these boardwipes will result in Aegar dying, so be mindful of that. Think of Aegar as "Sac, 5 mana (For the Board Wipe): Draw 7 cards". There will be times when we are picking off our opponents' commanders every other turn and drawing a card each time, but that doesn't happen as often as you might hope.

This is a fun, yet powerful casual deck that swings big creatures while burning our opponents and their creatures. We find it difficult to remove non-creature threats, so save the few counterspells we have to deal with powerful enchantments and game-winning instants and/or sorceries. If your friends only have precons, this deck is a great choice to offer them a challenge while not overwhelming them. Quite an accomplishment for a Johnny like me. :)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.05
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Elemental Shaman 3/1 R, Elemental */1 R