
Bombuswizardus
Tellah, Great Sage Commander Deck
This is an Izzet spellslinger deck built around Tellah, Great Sage. It chains cheap cantrips and looting spells, each of which makes a token from Tellah and other "cast an instant or sorcery" payoffs. Treasure, cost reducers and big-mana effects like Resonating Lute and Mana Geyser then push single spells to four or more mana for Tellah's two-card draw, and ideally to eight or more mana to sacrifice Tellah and hit every opponent for that amount. Trigger doublers for Wizards and for spell-cast triggers multiply the value of every spell, turning a stream of instants and sorceries into tokens, cards, mana and direct damage. How it wins: It overwhelms opponents with a wide board of tokens and repeated per-spell burn, finishing with an eight-plus-mana spell that fires Tellah's damage to each opponent, a large X burn spell, or extra turns and copied spells under Thousand-Year Storm. Key roles: - Spell-cast token makers: Each noncreature or instant/sorcery spell adds bodies alongside Tellah's Hero tokens, building a board that cheap spells and team pumps turn into lethal attacks (Young Pyromancer, Talrand, Sky Summoner, Third Path Iconoclast). - Trigger doublers: Repeated spell-cast triggers from Tellah and other Wizards or Shamans fire an additional time, doubling tokens, draws, Treasure and damage (Veyran, Voice of Duality, Harmonic Prodigy, Wizard's Staff). - Big-mana thresholds: Treasure, mana bursts and spell-only mana let single spells reach Tellah's four- and eight-mana thresholds, which also feeds the cards that reward four-mana casts (Resonating Lute, Mana Geyser, Storm-Kiln Artist). - Cheap cantrip chain: One-mana draw and selection spells keep the trigger count high while digging for payoffs, and cost reduction makes them nearly free (Brainstorm, Faithless Looting, Haughty Djinn). - Graveyard rebuys: Flashback granting and recursion let spent instants and sorceries be cast again for more triggers and another shot at big spells (Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, Will of the Jeskai, Mystic Sanctuary). - Burn and big finishers: Per-spell damage engines and scalable X spells close the game, backed by spell copying and extra turns (Guttersnipe, Caldera Pyremaw, Thousand-Year Storm).
Bombuswizardus decklist
- Arcane Signet
- Archmage Emeritus
- Balmor, Battlemage Captain
- Baral's Expertise
- Big Score
- Blasphemous Act
- Brainstorm
- Caldera Pyremaw
- Cascade Bluffs
- Command Tower
- Compulsive Research
- Consider
- Counterspell
- Curse of the Swine
- Deep Analysis
- Electrodominance
- Exotic Orchard
- Expressive Iteration
- Faithless Looting
- Fellwar Stone
- Ferrous Lake
- Frantic Search
- Guttersnipe
- Haughty Djinn
- 5× Island
- Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
- Lightning Greaves
- Mana Geyser
- Manaform Hellkite
- 3× Mountain
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Narset's Reversal
- Opt
- Path of Ancestry
- Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
- Ponder
- Pongify
- Preordain
- Prismari Command
- Reliquary Tower
- Resonating Lute
- Shivan Reef
- Sol Ring
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Stormcarved Coast
- Sublime Epiphany
- Sulfur Falls
- Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
- Temple of Epiphany
- Temporal Manipulation
- Think Twice
- Third Path Iconoclast
- Thousand-Year Storm
- Transcendent Dragon
- Veyran, Voice of Duality
- Will of the Jeskai
- Young Pyromancer
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Prompto Argentum
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Harmonic Prodigy
- Aetherize
- Wizard's Staff
- The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
- Jaya's Immolating Inferno
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun
- Spark Double
- Unexpected Windfall