The Emperor skips Turn 3

Commander / EDH* Bracket 2 Cascade Discover Ramp UR (Izzet)

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Creature (26)

• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Conspiracy Unraveler
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Frost Fair Lure Fish
• 1x Heralds of Tzeentch
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Mirrorshell Crab
• 1x Mutalith Vortex Beast
• 1x Noise Marine
• 1x Oliphaunt
• 1x Overlord of the Boilerbilges
• 1x Ovika, Enigma Goliath
• 1x Pinnacle Monk  ^Flip
• 1x Rampaging War Mammoth
• 1x Scavenged Brawler
• 1x Scholar of the Lost Trove
• 1x Screamer-Killer
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Transcendent Dragon
• 1x Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Instant (6)

• 1x Artistic Refusal
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Practical Research
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Thoughtflare
• 1x Whir of Invention

Land (39)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Ferrous Lake
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Great Furnace
• 10x Island
• 1x Mistrise Village
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Riverpyre Verge
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Silverbluff Bridge
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Thundering Falls
• 1x Training Center

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Anzrag's Rampage
• 1x Call Forth the Tempest
• 1x Creative Technique
• 1x Daring Discovery
• 1x Into the Time Vortex
• 1x Let the Galaxy Burn
• 1x Lorien Revealed
• 1x Volcanic Torrent

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Artifact (15)

• 1x Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1x Firemind Vessel
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Ichor Elixir
• 1x Lavabrink Floodgates
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Ring of the Lucii
• 1x Sarevok's Tome
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Battle of Frost and Fire
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

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Land (2)

• 1x Amonkhet Raceway
• 1x Buried Ruin

Creature (1)

• 1x Aurora Phoenix

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Salutations, welcome to the only Izzet deck I actually enjoyed building.

This deck operates under a very simple idea: You start every single game with a 2-drop ramp spell in your hand. The Emperor of Palamecea allows you to cast 4-mana spells on turn 3.

What 4-mana spells? It's basically just ramp! At 4 mana, we get access to 2-mana rocks. If we curve out ideally, we untap, play a land and have 7 mana on turn 4. This deck effectively doesn't run any other setup cards, since the Commander launches us really far ahead.

This brings us the the secret sauce: Cascade and Discover. Every 5-mana cascade or discover spell will hit another 2-mana rock to boost us even further.

What do we spend all this mana on? Big beefy bombs. Yes, our deck - despite being Blue/Red - is a creature deck! We have a Strength matters theme, which rewards us for casting and playing Power 5 and greater creatures to do additional damage. A bunch of our bombs also have cast triggers, which trigger again on every cascade and discover. And if our little guy survives all of this setup, he flips into a damage-dealing fatty too.

This deck is really fun and outside of the landbase, very affordable.

Tricks:

Whir of Invention: In hand, this card can use excess mana to tutor up a Gearhulk for more threat. But if you end up cascading into it, you can fetch Sol Talisman or Silverbluff Bridge because X = 0.

Ovika, Enigma Goliath can use every cascade card to quickly create an army of Goblins to overrun your opponents.

Date added	7 months
Last updated	1 day
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.28
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dungeon: Undercity, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Fish 1/1 U, Fish 1/1 U, Phyrexian Goblin 1/1 R, Skeleton 4/1 B, The Initiative, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink