You have a few excellent options that each synergize with your spellslinger style and only add to Narset, Enlightened Exile’s abilities.īalmor, Battlemage Captain is a 1/3 flier that gives you a board-wide boost whenever you cast an instant or sorcery, which you’ll be doing quite often with this deck.ĭreadhorde Arcanist also has a 1/3 statline, and it has essentially an identical ability to that of Narset, Enlightened Exile. Turn 1 is almost always either a cantrip or Sol Ring, so having something substantial on turn two allows you to hit the ground running and protect you from early creature decks. Turn two is when this deck really starts to get moving. In a deck like this, simply casting a spell often gives you more value than whatever the spell does on its own that’s the key takeaway. Not only does it give you additional value each combat step, but it also helps to give you more ways to trigger the prowess on each of your creatures when you need to.

You just want a large portion of them to be castable from the graveyard. That said, a large majority of your instants and sorceries are under that 3-mana threshold. The most important part of this commander is its power, and it’s almost always going to be at 3 unless you resolve one of your few combat-stat-boosting spells.

A lot of the other creatures have high levels of synergy with all your cheap spells, but none of them do it quite like Narset. The deck is centered almost entirely around Narset, Enlightened Exile. The ones that are here typically either some kind of protection or utility enchantment like Omen of the Sea and Sorcerer Class, or a synergistic creature that can dictate the pace of the game on its own like Archmage Emeritus or Monastery Mentor. The deck also runs relatively few permanent cards, as you might expect.

This makes for a very smooth and familiar Izzet spellslinger deck that gets to use white’s utility without giving up too much of Izzet’s straightforwardness. Only 15 of the 90 mana pips are white, and they’re mostly on cheaper spells like Hyena Umbra or Swords to Plowshares. While your commander is Jeskai, this deck is mostly just an Izzet ( ) deck with a few white cards. That gives you a solid bank of spells to cast for free, but you can also cast them early to develop your board and tempo-out your opponents. Taking into consideration Narset, Enlightened Exile’s ability only hits spells with a mana value less than its power, the average mana value of this deck is quite low at 2.53 without lands.

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