Elsha's Storm

Commander / EDH RUW (Jeskai, America) Spellslinger Storm

tkozielec

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Creature (9)

• 1x Bloodwater Entity
• 1x Galvanoth
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x God-Eternal Kefnet
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Kykar, Wind's Fury
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Divine Reckoning
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Ignite the Future
• 1x Mass Diminish
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Temporal Fissure
• 1x Throes of Chaos
• 1x Time Wipe
• 1x Vandalblast

Artifact (12)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Ral, Izzet Viceroy
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Soothsaying
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

Instant (11)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Leadership Vacuum
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Elsha Storm

This is an upgrade off the precon setlist with a fairly large amount of updates. This deck has had a lot of success in my POD. Even when this decklist starts off slow you can usually compile some mana rocks to help launch off some explosive turns. My main concern with this deck is that the primary wincon is fairly fragile.

The primary pathway to victory is a mana reducer (I run Ugin because he works as removal and can get things off the top of your deck in addition to his static mana reduction but I've heard other artifact reducers at lower CMC costs, those would absolutely suffice and depending on the tempo of your POD may be better), Sensei's Top, Elsha and any number of storm cards or Aetherflux Reservoir. In this decklist you can draw a lot of cards and there have been turns where I've had to dig for answers in my deck with the top and topdeck manipulation.

This brings a huge weakness against decks running cards such as Krosan Grip, Sudden Substitution or Morph artifact removal that doesn't use the stack thus getting around the Top's self protection. I'm looking to expand the versatility of the deck. I don't run any tutors, and I'm gradually adding fetch lands due to budgetary reasons. I'm looking for ideas to improve this deck in advance of Command Fest because I do have a lot of fun with how interactive this deck is and it's ability to seemingly win out of no where.

Please feel free to let me know ways to improve this deck.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Drake 2/2 U, Emblem Ral, Izzet Viceroy, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 2/2 C, Treasure