A Guide to Spellslinger in EDH | How to Build a Spellslinger Commander Deck  

The only reason I don't play a lot of my Spellslinger decks is because people don't like it when you fly under the radar for the entire game and wipe everyone in one insane 15min turn

My first deck i ever made that wasn't just tribal zoo, was Rowan Scion of War, then i made a Will, Scion if Peace deck. So purely for flavor, I'm currently working on a spell slinger Rowan Kenrith and Will Kenrith partner commander deck

This is a really good video. Good information

Going for a Splice focused deck can be a fun twist on this on spellslinger. Instead of casting tons of tiny cantrips you focus on casting a single big spell each turn. Unfortunately Arcane spells didn't return in Neon Dynasty

Zevlor, Elturel Exile. If you like haymaker spells, what’s better than copying Worst Fears or Bribery or Cruel Ultimatum for every opponent? Every table needs a villain and there’s no one better than that.

My deck for bloomburrow is spellslinger with Bria as commander and it's already so fun. My group lets me use the card before release to test it out.

I looked at old cards and found the original Sol'Kanar and though well this goes out of hand if I draw cards whenever I gain life basilcy drawin for any black spell. So I considered going in the spell slinger direction with mainly black spells Lich's Mastery, Wall of Lost Dreams and Eye of the Storm. I still try to figure out the right amount of creatures. After all Marauding Blight-Priest becomes a spell slinger in Sol'Knara and it is a great home for Sedgemore Witch and Rona. But between the "whenever gain life" and whenever cast instant/sorcery it becomes tough to add swamp matter or even punish opponents for using Eye of the storm with Kaevek or Mage Hunter. The funniest is that the deck has a criticle mass of swamps so most opponents can't profit from many cards in Eye of the Storm

I'm in love with Veyran

I love my gandalf deck:) happy casting everyone!

I'll definitely reference this video if I want to buff up the power level of my favorite set of decks (they share a lot of cards so I just swap the cards back and forth as needed), Wort, the Raidmother and Ovika, Enigma Goliah. Both are a mix of spellslinger and tokens (with a goblin tribal subtheme), the key difference being that for Ovika casting spells is the setup for creating massive amounts of tokens to swing with and for Wort, creating a bunch of tokens to tap is the setup to casting and copying huge spells. Like I said as is they could stand to be better, they both have high mana curves and are a bit slow (more of an issue for Ovika since it doesn't have green to get more consistent ramp) but they're a lot of fun. They also both run Sunbird's Invocation, one of my favorite cards of all time. A bit slow but feels incredible when you get to use it, which kind of encapsulates the decks as a whole in their current form lol. The first thing I'm going to add though, even before more cantrips (which I do need) is impact tremors. I've tried to add it twice but when I tried to get it online card kingdom was out of stock and when I tried to get it from my LGS the only version they had in stock was an expensive foil that wasn't in my budget at the time.

play goblin storm with zada, hedron grinder. resloving one buff spell with a storm kiln artist is just free mana

Really need to copy breach the multiverse one of these days!

I have struggled to make a deck with Krak, the Thumbless fun to play against. Using Thousand Year Storm or a copied Krak as a value engine just leads to "combo turns" where you draw 10+ cards and make 100+ mana. Whether you play "Guttersnipe" Effects or X-Spells or Storm Cards to win the game hardly changes the outcome at that point. Using spells that would win the game on a different turn/a turn later mostly leads to you losing the game; so it doesn't make any sense to run them. I have tried to also build around Riku, but was left with the same unhealthy play pattern of rushing out my value engine before the table can kill me; aggressively trading life to gain more time to set up; just to kill the entire table in one turn. When these decks lose, they just make a very ungraceful bellyflop and die, which also leaves the opponents unsatisfied, because the Spellslinger deck didn't even fight back. These are just my experiences however and perhaps these decks can find a place in a different playgroup. I would also like to confess that controlling more than one Krak at a time just feels good.

Fraying Sanity is one of the most fun cards to resolve 6+ times

Jodah, Pimpmage Eternal. Your the ultimate archmage easily dropping nukes by turn 4 or turn 5 if holding protection.

Can you give spellslinger/storm a shot with Extus, Oriq overlord. Lots of people do aristocrats and infinite mana with the back side but his mage craft ability has some real potential

quite a good guide personally I dislike both artifact or spell decks in commander usually underestimated and ends up taking over the game when one person forgets to use a removal also most spell heavy decks kinda fall flat with aggressive creature strategies or just everyone playing chicken and one guy just combos off regardless Zada combo is quite something else, one should try brewing it~

what do you think about veyran voice of duality as a commander in a spellsinger deck?

Currently working on a River Song spellslinger deck that focuses on cards that let you play from the top of your library. Urbrask is one I've come across but never thought to use it here