A Guide to Storm Decks in EDH | How to Build a Storm Commander Deck

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[@julianalvarez4231]

Storm scale is actually for standard legal sets. That's why storm still pops up in MH and EDH precons

[@acdcguy18]

Wish I saw this before making my comment but at least I know I'm right. Thanks! lol

[@TheZombieGrunt]

Cool thing I just learned recently about aetherflux, you can actually hold priority on the gain life trigger and respond to it by casting more spells; the amount of life gained isn’t checked until resolution of the ability. So, for example, if you’re going to cast 5 spells into your aetherflux, instead of the life gain looking like 1+2+3+4+5, if you hold priority on each of the triggers , and cast instants on top of them, your life gain would look like 5+5+5+5+5.

[@thetrinketmage]

I actually never knew that! Very cool tech

[@therussbuss5314]

Fun fact with Aetherflux. If you're storming with instants, you can respond to the Aetherflux triggers to play more spells. So if you play 5 spells, rather then gaining 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 life, your gain 5 life 5 times.

[@shorebot]

Hmmm, that's actually a neat trick. I learn something new everyday.

[@natelagrassa9337]

Thats brilliant!

[@ritchboix8423]

That's legit

[@simplysage3562]

May you explain this a little bit better I’m not quite followinh

[@tabbune]

​@@simplysage3562 So basically, Aetherflux only checks how many spells have been cast when it's resolving its trigger, not when you trigger it. If you have an Aetherflux trigger on the stack already, then you cast another spell, you'd create a new Aetherflux trigger, but you're also "updating" the amounts of spells cast this turn. Aetherflux uses the updated spells cast number, not the original number.

[@samchase6273]

I literally just built this, friends and I did 50 dollar decks. I went for a kykar deck where the idea is to cantrip like 8-10 little one and two mana spells, then play something like ignite memories or minds desire. Mizzix’s mastery is also INSANE.

[@Noobgamer0325]

I love to build and play storm decks. My friends don't like when I build and play storm decks. I don't build and play storm decks very often.

[@GridRivers]

honey the trinket mage is back, stop what you're doing

[@Ox7moron]

you joke- but as I woke up this morning I saw this video and said to my partner I had business to attend to :]

[@ry7hym]

lmao he knows his priorities​@@Ox7moron

[@GliveMtg]

Zada storm is by far my favorite deck, I run a super budget version, it began as a combat matters with millions of tokens and evolved into a storm combo deck with various wincons, even mid game I discover new forms of winning, god I love that deck!

[@thetrinketmage]

Zada can be a super threatening commander even on a budget!

[@erdete2733]

ooh! do you have a decklist?

[@deswide]

Would love to see the decklist! Trying to buy a storm deck in the future and love mono red

[@GliveMtg]

@@erdete2733 search for Glive in moxfield, I'll make the deck public

[@GliveMtg]

@@deswide search for Glive in moxfield, I'll make the deck public

[@xMakaveIix]

Storm is the best concept in Magic I have high tide storm, artifact storm, untap creature storm, Zada creature storm and multiple cantrip decks

[@spinningtrain9091]

have you heard of krark the thumbless

[@sourdough36]

I shall now stay awake for another 20 minutes

[@hamburgers8102]

I love storm, gotta be my favorite archetype by far. My favorite deck has to be Kess though I have many others I love. Nothing beats the feeling of using that change of fortune twice in a turn or being able to cheat out a displacer kitten mid storm by just reanimating it because grixis is busted. And for that deck its simultaneously card draw and ramp since I can either blink a rock or Kess herself to create a pseudo past in flames.

[@drew-id]

Yess Kess! Mine runs displacer kitten, and Chancellor of the Spires..... = cast every instant/sorcery in my opponents GY.... Ppl tend to scoop when you do it a second time (since it doesn't exile the spells)

[@hamburgers8102]

@@drew-id Dude that combo is sick lol haven't seen that before I definitely need to put that in the deck

[@chaosredefined3834]

I had a Rike of Two Reflections deck back in the day. Doubling Rude Awakening, Turnabout, Early Harvest and Mana Geyser was a lot of mana.

[@delinquentxia]

i decided to watch this video because it popped up just as im finishing my selesnya storm deck with the otj selvala in the command zone, and so i'm happy you mentioned her explicitly LOL, i found this very useful, thanks a bunch!

[@Light-ow5hi]

Literally started building a Jund storm list for EDH yesterday, perfect timing for your video sir!

[@benjackson4438]

For any Storm decks that include Red Mana: Possible Storm!!!!! Yes, you're going to be resolving the 2nd Instant, 2nd Sorcery... Blah, Blah, Blah. They have to hope for a 2nd Counterspell to stop you! And yes, you get 2 cast counts for Storm AND Aetherflux Reservoir per spell.

[@sethdaley2821]

I just finished a birgi storm list. Taught some friends who didn't know what storm was all about storm really fast.

[@GabrielLeClaire-ix2ts]

this is a great video man I really reached a brewing block when coming up with a Naya (Dragon)Storm deck and this really helps clear up some issues I had while brewing.

[@thetrinketmage]

I’m glad this helped!

[@yep_im_a_man_guy_dude]

my favorite storm commander is niv mizzet parun, i know hes expensive to cast and a very threatening commander, but i just love using him

[@Thoughtmage100]

I'm glad I found this video because I want to build a storm deck around Ashling, Flame Dancer because I liked the character when Lorwyn was around.

[@discount7027]

I just put together a mono green storm deck with six, this video has given me a couple cards I missed. Thanks!

[@thetrinketmage]

The new six from MH3?

[@ValianceGames]

Nice! I'm a huge storm-style player, but my favorite wincons are centered around Prowess-like skills. I so much love digging for and finding the win conditions based on what I've set up and building "enterprise" style decks that build up these enablers the set up for a win con. Love it! Learning more about ways to use my ACTUAL Storm spells was really sick.

[@de245733]

I own a mono W mavinda storm deck, it feels a little bit like a feathers deck. You are running nearly every single cantrip in white you can get your dirty hands on, even some of the real bad ones. (Formation, my beloved). Unlike feather however, you are (most of the time), not wining through commander damage or combat, and all of your cantrips has a limitation of max two times, so you have to be quite careful when to spend your precious spells in the graveyard, as you want to use them to draw, but you also want to save enough of them to exicute some of your wincons (aetherflux or show of confidence for example.) However, the plus side of the deck is as you are running most cantrips in the history of the game, you have effectively 40+ interaction spells, making your gameplan increadablly interactive, tapping down people's creature draw, protection spell draw, or even the occasion of redirecting deathtouch damage from one creature to the other, it is quite joyous to run. For the players that enjoys storm and are wanting to seek some fun in mono W with a varity different wins all in a bag (flux for traditional storm, show of confidence/walls for voltron supprise win, approach for "combo", mentor for go wide... etc), mavinda is a underrated commander that I would always reconmend.

[@estebanmarco8755]

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain is the first commander I fell in love with, and now my favorite deck is an Orvar list that's midway between storm and combo. The goal is to go infinite with a loop but there isn't any tutor and the pieces can go in so many variations, I discover a new loop every time.

[@MCC17011]

I've been hyped for Ashling, Flame Dancer as she seems optomized for spell slinging and storming off. Perfect timing for this video!

[@nobodycares1881]

I loved this and subscribed to your channel

[@movanelli]

Storm is also my favorite archetype in Magic and mostly decks I build, I do thinking about spellslinger and storm. Buying and casting a lot of spells is the vibe that caught my attention in card games in general. I've been playing with Kykar as spellslinger/storm deck that focus winning by creating tokens and damage and sac the tokens for mana. But I brewed a fresh new Mizzix deck and I loved playing storm cards and X spells reducing the costs. Enjoyed a lot your video, explaining some concepts I didn't knew archetype. Thanks for your video, this is my favorite video about mtg now

[@gabzsy4924]

As a Lotus field combo player in Pioneer I recommend gettung an app with a mana counter built in. Much easier that dice.

[@aimlessgun]

Elfball is my favorite storm deck type! Marwyn or Raggadragga can consistently pop off and win by t4-5 (or t3 with fast mana and Cradle), but yeah being complete glass cannons puts a ceiling on the powerlevel. Yeva is also a fun elfball storm commander, slower max speed but maybe easier to find a window in a higher power table.

[@zigh352]

"Storm is basically dead in modern" Mh3 would like to have some words, :^) This video has helped so much in the building of my own storm decks in the recent week, and then a possible revival of storm in modern ontop of it. Time to get to goldfishing.

[@samhillier5167]

This was enjoyable, thank you! I always enjoy trying to make a Storm deck work as a non-infinite combo; I enjoy the challenge of trying to find a way to win with whatever I draw. You’re right, it’s always a different path, always a different result. That is more rewarding, though far less reliable, than an A+B combo. My last real Storm deck was Cormela, and it was filled with untapped effects to maximize her mana production. It felt real good to Epic Experiment into Mind’s Desire into pretty much anything. Maybe I should put something back together…

[@geoffbarker5570]

Trying to make a low-ish budget Vadrik, Astral Archmage Storm deck and this gave me a ton of helpful insights

[@SwedeRacerDC]

Storm is fun and I really do enjoy seeing it with experienced players. My buddy built one and it was fun. I'm not sure I will build a direct storm deck, but I do have a couple "stormy" decks that can get there and have a payoff, but not usually a direct win.

[@DamienDrapeau]

I've been wanting a storm vid from you for a fat minue

[@jaceg810]

I think I have a yawgmoth "storm" deck, It does try to dig as deep as possible, and hopefully find pitless plunderer and similar to discount black mana, then play cheap creatures that make more creatures to sac them to draw more creatures to sac until it fizzles or drainy boi's get involved to present a win condition. Also, technically Bolas's Citadel + Yawgmoth is nondeterministic

[@IvanKolyada]

This is inspiring! I am probably going to build some sort of Grixis storm with Kess, so that I dont bother with too much planning. Lots of rituals + land untaps.

[@thetrinketmage]

Go for it!

[@synxcopt]

I recently brewed a Rakdos, the muscle storm deck aimed at high power/cedh and it works quite well. Of course it fails to interaction that removes your commander but you also are almost guaranteed to go through your deck and find your wincons if you untap with your commander and some mana. It's very satisfying to play as you see the pieces comming together until there's no way you can miss.

[@harrisonheppelmann7938]

I see storm all the time! I play a Yidris consult deck as my main competitive deck. But it also has a mean backup manual storm option because of the cascade off a Yidris hit. Super hard to interact with too, because it really only folds to a windbreak trap or flusterstorm. Wins way more than it should

[@getmurkd5811]

new ruby storm is making waves in modern! storm is back baby!!

[@thetrinketmage]

I know it’s pretty awesome! I’m very hyped to try the deck out

[@getmurkd5811]

@@thetrinketmage ral shot up in price lol, the deck is so cool tho!

[@getmurkd5811]

@@thetrinketmagealso do you have a discord? you're an awesome creator who id love to be in a discord with!

[@thetrinketmage]

@@getmurkd5811 I do, but it's for patrons only. It's $2 to join the discord. Link is in the description

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Great video!

[@casketbase7750]

I have a Kogla deck that is essentially Monogreen Storm. He bounces a human for 1G, so any human that goes mana positive (there are a lot) allows infinite casts. From there, ETB triggers usually draw my whole deck while generating infinite mana. The list is on TappedOut as King Kong Combo if anyone is interested. It's fairly cheap if you cut from Aluren and The Great Henge (which aren't strictly necessary anyway).

[@ry7hym]

this sounds awesome, I knew the big monke had it in him. I was interested to build him as my mono green commander (I eventually went with Mowu, but that turned out to be quite boring for my liking)

[@nixilis5352]

I have a $50 seton, krosan protector deck. it's basically just elf tribal but the commander makes it storm a bit (rain elves?) seton obviously says tap druids but they're usually elves fun deck

[@thetrinketmage]

Elf ball and storm have a lot of overlap. Almost made a section talking about it but decided that was too much of a side tangent

[@adrianmetz3013]

I have a psuedo Storm deck with my Omanth Locus of the Roil spellslinger/ramp deck, and it's an absolute blast to play. The main game plan is to use ramp effects that draw cards and put lands into play like Explore and Growth spiral to ramp and dig into the deck to eventually cast a huge X cost spell like Crackle with Power or Comet Storm, even Doppelgang is crazy in the deck to win. But it does and can with casting my cantrip ramp while Thousand Year Storm is in play and killing people with 40 copies of Lightning Bolt. I love the deck so much

[@randalf5256]

I have a Syr Carah, The Brave edh deck, the idea was making it about burn but it turn into a great storm deck. But the thing I love is the fact that it may work or not. But its still quite fun.

[@Asilose]

I usually play with a storm out in my "Feather the redeemed" deck, but instead of winning in one turn (lame ik...) I do half damage on my turn and do the rest of their life at my next opponent's upkeep :^) But in contrary of a pure storm deck, theer's no fisle!

[@colinlynch6491]

I have a vilis broker of blood edh deck, and i brewed it with the intention to be a big mana ramp deck that won with exanguinate. It ended up being this weird combination of control, ramp, and storm. It's a lot of fun to play. I highly recommend people building him

[@Antif4mous]

I have a Kykar storm deck, it's mostly artifacts, but there's cards like impact tremors to damage opponents when I cast noncreature spells. Mana boost from Kykar along with the red Ojer makes every ping 4 damage and grapeshot win comes much more achievable, even in commander. Good video as always, cheers.

[@TheSmartestManonEarth]

My favorite storm commander is minds desire. I love that card

[@siddharthdas3417]

Normally I’m not this early. Looking forward to this one especially.

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

Same

[@xaeoxic7328]

The new storm legend from Outlaws is awesome. Lilah plots any multicolored instants you cast. So your really important instants can stay in a mono color, but other than that you just have this big pile of free spells that people have to stare at with horror until you eventually say "alright guys"

[@nootnewt]

That's terrifying and I love it

[@xaeoxic7328]

@@nootnewt I traded for it at a draft with my buddies. All the cactus plant creatures were first on my list. I'm only missing Bill, by I got bristlebud from the same draft. But yeah, Lilah and the boros pay x legend were my other two I was fishing for. I did get all of them, also traded for calamity which is very exciting. Calamity with prototypes maybe was an idea I wanted to experiment with. Then maybe just artifact creatures and build around like modular artifact creatures or something. Since calamity states that you sacrifice the token, instead of what usually says exile it. Sacrificing the creature counts as the creature dying, so you can farm some CRAZY modular creatures and make giant evasive guys. Steel hellkite could be a good option to modular onto y'know.

[@nootnewt]

@@xaeoxic7328 gonna need a decklist sometime

[@SergentPeppers304]

I know pods with multiple storm decks are painful, but damn there's few things that feel cooler than responding to a grapeshot with a quickened grapeshot.

[@ioanis6718]

Just finished building my Urabrask/The Great Work pinger/storm deck

[@rocker1296]

In my experience Storm is a dangerous mechanic. I don't think that it's overpowered in Commander, but the problem that I see is a storm deck/player monopolizing time at the table. You sort of mentioned it near the end, and I'm glad that you mentioned goldfishing, because It's just awful to sit and watch someone play solitaire for 5+ minutes as they cast a cantrip, draw your new card, and then have to reconsider if that new card changes how you plan how you're gonna storm off.

[@TheMattmatic]

"5 minutes" - I have seen players take turns that are an hour long or more. I think the guy in my playgroup who has the record has taken turns over 90 minutes on a few occasions when he's built new complicated combo decks. That includes rule discussions though :D

[@robparizo4773]

Izzet is my original guild in magic, started in ravnica block with the classic Niv Miz. That started the degeneration into a filthy storm player in edh. I've learned to pick cards that can begin a storm manually during any players turn incase they want to combo off youll get the greater benifit tagging along. "I now present infinite mana and creatures with haste" well you have to pick a finite number good sir, oh you say a million...aha here's grapeshot my guy 😂

[@johnzigemm5944]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Rowan, Scion of War. I built her specifically to play Dragonstorm, and I'm so excited for MH3's MDFCs just because I can bolt myself with a land drop. Loved the line about storming off at 1 life! Rakdos Storm, living on the edge!

[@thetrinketmage]

Rowan is a really powerful storm option and I think she can be really fun! Though the decks are usually too all in for my taste

[@therussbuss5314]

Urabrask Storm baby let's go!

[@yasushix3672]

I FRIGGIN LOVE STORM The edh decks I built and spend the most time playing are built to storm off and or kill everyone on one bonkers turn, but each and every storm deck I've has ever built all serve to scratch a very special itch in my brain weather it's cyclestorm, generic izzetstorm, my uberg door to nothing deck, or my cast from exile one. Each one is ends it the turn it goes off or I overextend and lose and I love being the potential loose cannon in the playground that might pull a win out of my ass buy solving the puzzle that is my deck.

[@tatecarter60]

Atm I’m building a taii wakeen pseudo storm (or reverse storm as I like to think of it it) deck where the finisher is pumping her ability then casting a ton of pinging cantrips for massive damage to the whole table. This really helped conceptualizing the missing pieces

[@TheLimedew]

Great vid I love storm! I feel like bryant from theepicstorm has a wild Legacy storm deck. it doesn’t feel combo-centric at all he’s manual storming up to 10 then jamming a tendrils. Its very cool. Im really surprised you didn’t bring up rogsi at all either. You take out the consult/thoracle and add in a tendrils or grapeshot and something else you have a very insane storm deck. Evaluating it would show what a really good storm could look like too.

[@drakko95]

Used to run a manual storm deck in the form of Lier. It would basically abuse High Tide and win with some type of Lab Man effect. Ultimately ended up scrapping it, because it made games go way longer than they needed to be. It was still fun, but the fun gets old after a while.

[@Khalador23]

I don't really play any cards with storm cards in my Aragorn deck, but I guess it could be considered a storm deck. It's designed to cast a lot of cantrips and copy them.

[@thetrinketmage]

I've never seen Aragorn as a storm deck but honestly he could be a great commander option!

[@casperhermans]

I just built a selesnya Wylie Duke untap deck, it's a lot of fun!

[@marshall4439]

Arjun the Shifting Flame is my favorite storm deck. Every spell grabs you a new hand, and your win cons are things like Teferi's Tutelage, Locust God, and Niv-Mizzet.

[@ayykennay]

I proxied a Ghryson Starn deck intending to be a group slug / burn deck, but during one of my EDH games, it ended up being a storm deck thanks to Mana Geyser gaining me about 25 mana. I eventually cast Grapeshot with a storm count of 14, but because I had Ghyrson out, I got to split 42 damange in chunks of 3. I ended up eliminating two players on one turn from that storm turn!

[@matthewdaley4403]

As a Jhoira player who loves comboing off with Underworld Breach+Brain Freeze in CEDH, I don't necessarily see Storm as a lost art.

[@ry7hym]

fellow Undie Breach + Breeze enjoyer spotted

[@shorebot]

I maintain a Kykar manual storm deck with Mind's Desire as one of its wincons. I say "maintain" because I don't really play it in pods most of the time, but it's so fun to goldfish, although it gets updated maybe once or twice a year. I have a storm-adjacent deck in 5c Omnath. It's not really storm per se, but when it hits a critical mass (which is really what storm is) of lands, it can chain spells into a massive X spell to win.

[@chrispydesign585]

If you had a list for your Kykar deck I'd love to see it! I'm in the process of building a Kykar deck atm

[@Fluffy_Kun]

My favorite storm deck is actually Imoti, its uses the commander to grant cascade to spells to generate value. But it shifts into to storm mode when given a clone or two of imoti, giving each spells more cascades. Cards like Ghalta have high cmc low cost to cast so are perfect, while simic has loads of untapped ramp to help recast these. There is 3 cards in the deck that when I cast spells i get to bounce a card, letting me replay my big spells again. Evenatually a 2.5 card combo of Invasion of arcavios plua 1 a bouncer will win the game as invasion etbs grabbing a extra turn spell, cast extra turn spell and trigger the bouncer to pic up invasion again. plus commander will let me infinitly cascade with nexus of fate to win. I have a £50 primer on this on moxfield, account is called foxtribal. KZbin comments don't like links often tbh.

[@friedchickkn1131]

I just built a Krark Sakashima deck and it is very fun to goldfish but tokens are an absolute must for floating mana, storm, and triggers. regularly squeezes out a win by turn 6

[@thetrinketmage]

That deck is very cool but also tedious to actually use irl

[@NateFinch]

Yeah, I built one but it's kind of a headache to play. The fact that it's non-deterministic what happens on *every* cast just makes it take so much longer.

[@friedchickkn1131]

@@thetrinketmage it certainly is, I make sure to have a token for each trigger on the stack to make it all run smoother, even got heads/tails dice to easier move through resolving triggers, the hardest part is honestly passing priority and waiting for it to go around while trying to storm efficiently

[@ditfing]

I've been playing Sol'kanar storm for a bit (the old one), where the goal is to get bolas's citadel out and go to town, gaining back the life I spend, and eventually draining out with incremental effects or tendrils.

[@alexgosan5707]

I have a Etali storm deck. The deck is essentially ramp and every copy effect that can be played in gruul. Then I use his trigger for the stormcount and hope to hit copy effects or a storm card in mine. It’s surprisingly strong even tho there are very little traditionally powerful cards in the deck.

[@shenronsgoldfish]

One thing worth noting is a lot of casual player's aren't going to invite you back if you only play storm. Like commander when its casual has casual players and in my experience casual players don't run enough interaction so you end up just being chump checked every pod. Storm decks are great at getting last and letting someone else win because you eat all of the litlle removal casual players have. That being said mizzix the ur experience counter commander is probably the best new player storm commander because you have bit storm turns your mana enabler is the commander so you always gave access to it and you have a back up game plan of just jamming x spells.

[@tertmemelur1880]

only storm deck I've built so far was with Arjun, the shifting flame. It still need some work but not only is it extra budget, Arjun makes it way more unpredictable but also very reliable (you can get away with lower enablers/rituals density just because you're churning throufh your deck like there's no tomorrow) you also have access to alternative payoffs based on cards drawn so that helps with bustet too

[@mfmageiwatch]

I have a weird one for ya, i built sliver storm with sliver gravemother

[@SiniBANG]

Played a storm deck once with RG Goblin Storm with Skirk Prospector and Fecundity as the main engine.

[@edwardjones6967]

Prosper Profits! Prosper tomebound casting from exile with storm kiln and xorn, urabrask, birgi, mvp charforger.. win cons usually include grapeshot or arcane bombardment value with professor onyx, aetherflux, or go the money spending route to win off a fizzle with a Judith fling or dragonspark reactor, passionate archeologist also ticks down the clock as you cast through your deck!

[@pauldyson8098]

I have a Reki deck (inspired by Dana Roach from EDHRECast) that is effectively a mono green creature storm deck. It's like Selvala brostorm but less explosive. Not a real storm deck, of course, but it functions similarly. Super fun.

[@MaliciousCricket]

My storm deck has Elsha the Infinite at the helm but no combos in there. I short cut the storm count by trying to get a big unblockable Elsha who's buffed from prowess and try to sneak in a double strike instant. Alternatively, I switch about 20 cards in that shell with Kykar, Wind's Fury as commander trying to cast a big Haze of Rage. Thanks for the video!

[@jeffreywriddlejr]

For colorless storm, look at Kozilek, the Great Distortion from Oath: he's expensive to cast, but draws you up to 7 cards. Plus colorless doesn't have a problem getting the mana for him

[@linguinibros.productions]

Manual storm edh decks are by far the most fun decks I have

[@_z3i]

Krark/Sakashima is basically the premier storm deck in cEDH in the past few years. Storm has been less of a thing though because of tournaments and timed rounds.

[@randomtangela8116]

I made a storm deck in historic a while ago, used chatterstorm and Zada Hedron grinder to explode people.

[@jasongalloway4645]

I have a cormela, glamour theif deck that started life as a storm deck….but because she’s busted beyond belief she turned into a combo deck. Still have the two storm cards in there as well as few of the other storm pieces that are relevant to the combo I’m trying to run tho.

[@CptnYarrow]

My first storm deck i got a month ago is a dr madison lee "storm" Deck because I'm allergic to playing non-artifact decks. Playing a bunch of eggs and mana rocks for 0 from the top of the library and drawing cards for playing them with one of many setup pieces.

[@thetrinketmage]

That sounds like a really fun deck!

[@raynmanshorts9275]

Wizards: "We are almost definitely never doing Storm again." Also Wizards: "Did you guys like the last set where we included pseudo-Storm? Well, check out this next set, where we include pseudo-Storm!"

[@EvolZar9]

I'm currently trying to assemble an Edgin foretell storm deck. I don't know if it works but in my head it seems like a fun way to play.

[@tariqmaketab595]

jadzi is my favorite storm commander - izzet storm is a bit passé for my taste, and it's far too tempting to run underworld breach in the latter. simic value engine, what a surprise!

[@shino7643]

Just built my first dabble into storm with parnesse. the deck wants to cast minds desire and hand out copies for more storm count. I have yet to win so this video is a godsend

[@ilyapan8659]

My EDH storm deck is Blanka, Ferocious Friend Green is funny here because you can play Keen Sense on Blanka or any other pinger like Kessig Flamebreather to transform your cantrips into 1 mana draw 4 Also you can close games by commander damage in one hit But still with all of these, deck is too slow and fizzle easily XD

[@thetrinketmage]

Oh interesting I’ve never heard of playing Blanka like that

[@Pyoromo]

Good mulliganing is also key! You can practice this while goldfishing your deck.

[@0megal2]

My krark/sakashima edh deck just got a lot of new toys with mh3, my friends are going to hate me and suffer through the next 4 weeks at the very least

[@kollin1138]

I play a budget version of Vadrik Astral Archmage. It gives some flavor that my deck can be countered by all of my opponents only playing one spell per turn.

[@WokedOx]

Do not be afraid to go for it, when I'm playing my tuned storm decks, I basically send it as long as I think I have a 60% chance of pulling it off.

[@silasradriar6552]

Impending flux is great. So long as you storm from not your hand you only need 19+ impending flux to win It does 1 damage to each opponent and creature they control for each spell cast not from hand

[@silasradriar6552]

I’m working on a Jess list based on it

[@silasradriar6552]

Kess. And sorry 19+ impending flux then cast again

[@ry7hym]

ooh, maybe this is what my Noyan Dar deck wants to be but I also have my baby Jace in that deck, sooo maybe im gonna turn it into that 🤔

[@arrowrandoman]

Came for the fun deck-crafting, stayed because I keep learning fun bits about the game. I goldfish all the time, but I used to just call it test driving.

[@bryanbonar]

Storm is a fun archetype in EDH, and arguably *the* thing a competent, dedicated spellslinger deck would wanna be doing. Unfortunately my local meta is super casual and basically bans all storm cards.

[@patrickera1]

When I started playing a year and a half ago, I made my first deck whit the idea "I want to make a mage deck that focus on casting instants and sorceries to go boom", without knowing much about magic I made an Mizzix of the Ismagnus deck entire focused on X spells. It is not exactly a storm deck but the sensation of playing it looks like one, sometimes I just acidentally causes the entire board to suffer 1000 damage of a fireball copied 50 times... Or I just fizzle to oblivion because I didn't known how to make proper decks lol

[@tyroflame2764]

I have a mono black Krrik Deck. I consider it to be a storm Deck, however typically I can play Tendrils for 12+, but to be honest, the Deck normally close out games by utilizing Aetherflux Resavoir

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

I like Sphinx-Bone Wand as it is colorless and it gets counters per instant or sorcery you cast so you don't even need to resolve the spells, best part is each counter it gets it deals that many damage to any target. Meaning while it is not a explosive 1 turn type of thing storm usually is it is a very good storm card if you can protect it as the counters do not go away they accumulate and you get more just for playing the game as if they play a creature or plainswalker you can just remove it. I know i know the rulling of the card contradicts the oracle text of when you cast so when it goes onto the stack but the ruling on the gatherer stating "If the targeted permanent or player is an illegal target by the time the ability resolves, the ability doesn't resolve. You won't put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand and it won't deal damage." that you have to resolve it first. Like here is a rule on what casting a card is 601.2. To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack, and pay its costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect. Casting a spell includes proposal of the spell (rules 601.2a-d) and determination and payment of costs (rules 601.2f-h). To cast a spell, a player follows the steps listed below, in order. A player must be legally allowed to cast the spell to begin this process (see rule 601.3). If a player is unable to comply with the requirements of a step listed below while performing that step, the casting of the spell is illegal; the game returns to the moment before the casting of that spell was proposed Yet the ruling from 2010 is saying it has to resolve and not just be put on the stack despite what the oracle text says unless i am misunderstanding it as they used a completely weird fucking phrasing in that case. As anyone reading that would scratch their head saying "What?" since the rules are contradicting what the oracle text of the card says without this being a case of Platinum angel vs a judge so here it just don't make sense why they did not just change the oracle text to reflect it? It's a very weird ruling indeed as you are not allowed to make illegal targets for your cards in the first place and in the case that a opponent did a thing making the target illegal the fact that the card is already on the stack should have made the wand get the counter NOT if it is now a illegal target out of your control you get rid of the already supposed to be placed counter as even with APNAP you could set the stack where the counter gets placed before it is time for the now illegal spell to try and resolve fizzling Like the whole thing just does not make sense as you get the counter when the instant or sorcery is put onto the stack and should resolve of putting it onto the stack and dealing damage before the spell is resolved or tries to. What do you think of the ruling Trinket Mage? the Oracle text of the card states when you cats yet the ruling on the card pretty much says it has to resolve first except not always when the spell that triggered the counter trigger does not become a illegal card to play then the wand gets the counter as normal. The entire thing is just BS honestly, yet i don't see Wizards often going back and changing rulings from 2010 but again BS as most cases you still get the counter when it hits the stack as in it's cast except for this one odd specific case that is out of your control. They could have said "when the spell resolved" and not "when you cast" to avoid ay confusion as the get the counter trigger will resolve or activate before it is time to resolve the spell so there is no way it could negate you from getting the counter since you already did as again the counter trigger would resolve before then And i know the illegal target thing is not talking about the wand itself as it literally says "You won't put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand and it won't deal damage." so it's talking whatever instant or sorcery you played but again this card resolves before that so it makes no fucking sense. Like is this just a useless ruling? or how does it work? Seriously i do not comprehend it as it's not being logical as again the trigger should resolve before the spell does as it is the last one in so it's the first one out then a delayed trigger happens gets added to the stack that resolves then finally the spell attempts to and fizzles Like why add a rule that contradicts the very game itself? This is different from the Panglacial Wurm type of illegal play where you cats a spell during resolution and then something happened and it becomes illegal to do so however you had to draw a card and shuffle before the game could be rewound, anyways back on point this one begs the question on if you should just ignore the 2010 ruling as it is too conflicting with the game rules and oracle text of the card or not which would be a better case of "Legal Cheating" as you are technically breaking the rules despite how triggers and such resolves Again i can't stress enough of how fucking stupid that 2010 ruling is as you can't intentionally do a play you know is a illegal one otherwise it is cheating but the wand trigger resolves or should resolve before the game checks and fizzles the spell out meaning unless you put the wand trigger to resolve after the spell resolves this rule should do nothing, but why on earth would anyone put the spell resolution to resolve before the wand trigger does? Like this whole thing is just fucking confusing and that's the downside about this card Wizards making a weird ass rule

[@jcjackson9367]

Krark/Sakashima is the closest thing we have to manual storm in Cedh. And thats mainly due to krarks ability.

[@20x20]

Ooh i was hoping to finally build my secret lair yidris

[@isaack8146]

In my opinion, Murktide in modern (if it is still viable haven't done modern in a while) is basically storms evolution into a tempo deck after all storm enablers were banned and modern got some strong haymakers in DRC and murktide after the defacto rotation of MH2