I'll have what she's having

Commander / EDH Burn Casual Multiplayer Spellslinger UR (Izzet)

Veghelia

Lands (36)

• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 10x Island
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thundering Falls
• 1x Training Center

Control (12)

• 1x Beacon of Destruction
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Delay
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Master the Way
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Prophetic Bolt
• 1x River's Rebuke
• 1x Snap

Ramp (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Inner Fire
• 1x Izzet Locket
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Thought Vessel

Main Meat (14)

• 1x Double Vision
• 1x Errant, Street Artist
• 1x God-Eternal Kefnet
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Refuse / Cooperate
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Rootha, Mercurial Artist
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm
• 1x Twinning Staff
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Support (4)

• 1x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Commander (1)

Draw (14)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Big Score
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Kumena's Awakening
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Quick Study
• 1x See the Truth
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x The Magic Mirror
• 1x Ugin's Insight

Recursion (4)

• 1x Bloodwater Entity
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Treason of Isengard

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Maybeboard

Main Meat (5)

• 1x Galvanic Iteration
• 1x Harmonic Prodigy
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Melek, Reforged Researcher
• 1x Reiterate

Support (1)

• 1x The Reality Chip

Control (3)

• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Suspend
• 1x Vandalblast

Draw (2)

• 1x Brainsurge
• 1x Diviner's Portent

Ramp (3)

• 1x Arcane Melee
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles

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Why do I wanna make this deck?

I think I fell in love when I first saw Melek, Izzet Paragon. They were my first introduction to copying spells, and I love the new option they add to the game: casting spells from the top of your deck.

How do I reach that goal/want?

I think the main thing I wanna do is make a deck that can go nuts casting spells from the top of the deck.

Due to the colors we're in (and my love for direct damage), it's gonna be a burn deck, focused on hitting critical mass (= a combination of available mana and ways to copy spells) to close out the game with N copies of a big, beautiful, burn spell, baby!

Considering most copy effects have a static cost, it's best to copy high cost spells. I'd also just rather throw around "deal 5 damage" two times, than "deal 2 damage" five times. Not only is it harder to copy something multiple times, less decisions most of the time also mean easier decisions, which makes for a quicker game.

Magecraft scales wonderfully with copies, but there aren't all that many cards in blue/red with effects that would support the build, so we'll see how many we get to add.

What do I need to do that?

1. Ramp and draw to hit critical mass
2. Ways to protect ourselves while gathering resources
3. Burn spells

Hitting critical mass is easiest by relying on a couple big draw spells and by having some rituals to help us prepare for one big hit. Some cost reduction also helps us make the most out of the mana we create with our rituals, or just makes it easier overall to get off multiple spells in one turn to close out the game.

I've found that adding both rituals and X spells that burn or copy make winning incredibly easy, so I'm not including any of those, since winning is no longer an exciting challenge, but a given if nobody has a counterspell (which not a lot of people play in my meta).

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.55
Tokens	City's Blessing, Orc Army, Treasure
Folders	Commander/EDH (Paper), c on trol