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Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder deck
Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder · Colorless · 100 cards · 38 lands
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Bracket unknownCommander 1Creatures 28Instants 18Sorceries 12Artifacts 3Lands 38
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Strategy
This deck built around Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder leverages cascade and free-cast effects to chain into value and overwhelm the table. Once Yidris connects for combat damage, every spell you cast from hand that turn gains cascade, turning even cheap draw spells like Ponder and Brainstorm into multi-spell chains. The deck stacks cascade-natively on cards like Bloodbraid Elf, Shardless Agent, and Maelstrom Wanderer, and combines that with ramp and card advantage to snowball out of control.
Early: Prioritize ramp and mana fixing. Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Ignoble Hierarch accelerate you, while Farseek, Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Rampant Growth, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Growth Spiral, and Skyshroud Claim build a stable mana base. Solemn Simulacrum both ramps and blocks, replacing itself when it dies. Suspend cards like Ancestral Vision and Inevitable Betrayal can be seeded early for later payoff. Hold up interaction such as Counterspell, Negate, Terminate, or Putrefy to protect your development.
Mid: Deploy cascade creatures to generate immediate value. Bloodbraid Elf, Shardless Agent, Bloodbraid Challenger, Annoyed Altisaur, and Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty each cascade into extra spells. Rashmi, Eternities Crafter rewards casting your first spell each turn, and Averna, the Chaos Bloom lets you ramp lands off cascade. Trumpeting Carnosaur discovers 5 on entry for even more advantage. Look to connect with Yidris—Whispersilk Cloak or My Precious make him unblockable so you can trigger his cascade-granting ability, and Maelstrom Wanderer gives your creatures haste for faster attacks.
Late: With Yidris connecting, cast cheap cantrips like Brainstorm, Ponder, Frantic Search, Treasure Cruise, and Dig Through Time to trigger cascade repeatedly, chaining into your creatures and interaction. Maelstrom Wanderer's double cascade and Etherium-Horn Sorcerer's self-bounce provide repeatable value. Etali, Primal Storm and Boarding Party generate explosive free casts. Abaddon the Despoiler grants cascade based on opponents' lost life during your turn, and Hit the Mother Lode discovers 10 for a massive payoff plus Treasure tokens.
Win conditions: Win primarily through combat, attacking with a swarm of cascade-generated creatures given haste by Maelstrom Wanderer. Yidris himself has trample and grows your board through free spells. Board wipes like Blasphemous Act and Curtains' Call clear blockers before a decisive alpha strike. Storm-Kiln Artist producing Treasures alongside instants and sorceries can help fund a large finishing turn, while Laelia, the Blade Reforged grows with each exile from cascade and discover effects.
- Maelstrom Wanderer - Double cascade for immediate value and grants all your creatures haste
- Rashmi, Eternities Crafter - Free extra spell or card each turn off your first cast
- Whispersilk Cloak - Makes Yidris unblockable to reliably trigger his cascade ability
- Storm-Kiln Artist - Generates Treasure off instants and sorceries to fuel long spell chains
- Bloodbraid Challenger - Cascade creature with haste that can also be recast from the graveyard via escape
- Etali, Primal Storm - Attack trigger casts free spells from the top of each player's library
- Abaddon the Despoiler - Grants cascade to your hand-cast spells based on opponents' life loss during your turn
~$42.50
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Commander (1)
Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder
Legendary Creature — Ogre Wizard
Trample
Whenever Yidris deals combat damage to a player, as you cast spells from your hand this turn, they gain cascade. (When you cast the spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creatures (28)
Bloodbraid Elf
Creature — Elf Berserker
$0.23
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Shardless Agent
Artifact Creature — Human Rogue
$0.33
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
Legendary Creature — Snake Druid
$0.23
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman
$0.33
As you cascade, you may put a land card from among the exiled cards onto the battlefield tapped. (Do this after the last card is exiled but before deciding whether to cast a nonland card.)
Maelstrom Wanderer
Legendary Creature — Elemental
$0.34
Creatures you control have haste.
Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)
Bloodbraid Challenger
Creature — Elf Berserker
$0.32
Cascade
Haste
Escape—{3}{R}{G}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
Artifact Creature — Minotaur Wizard Sorcerer
$0.24
{1}{U}{R}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Annoyed Altisaur
Creature — Dinosaur
$0.17
Reach, trample
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Aurora Phoenix
Creature — Phoenix
$0.32
Flying
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Boarding Party
Creature — Human Pirate
$0.25
Haste
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Heralds of Tzeentch
Creature — Demon
$0.88
Flying
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Noise Marine
Creature — Astartes Warrior
$1.98
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Sonic Blaster — When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of spells you've cast this turn to any target.
Sakashima's Protege
Creature — Shapeshifter
$0.41
Flash
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Quandrix, the Proof
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
$1.61
Flying, trample
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast from your hand have cascade.
Maelstrom Colossus
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.35
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Abaddon the Despoiler
Legendary Creature — Astartes Warrior
Trample
Mark of Chaos Ascendant — During your turn, spells you cast from your hand with mana value X or less have cascade, where X is the total amount of life your opponents have lost this turn.
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid
$0.39
Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with lesser mana value. If you don't cast it, put it into your hand.
Storm-Kiln Artist
Creature — Dwarf Shaman
$1.53
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Legendary Creature — Spirit Warrior
$0.32
Haste
Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.
Trumpeting Carnosaur
Creature — Dinosaur
$1.62
Trample
When this creature enters, discover 5.
{2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Etali, Primal Storm
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$0.44
Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.29
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.69
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Mulldrifter
Creature — Elemental
$0.28
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Peregrine Drake
Creature — Drake
$0.25
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman
$0.32
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Ignoble Hierarch
Creature — Goblin Shaman
$1.03
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.
Temur Battlecrier
Creature — Orc Ranger
$0.89
During your turn, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.
Instants (18)
Bituminous Blast
Instant
$0.16
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.
Forceful Denial
Instant
$0.27
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Counter target spell.
Natural Reclamation
Instant
$0.21
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Growth Spiral
Instant
$0.29
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Chaos Warp
Instant
$0.38
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Assassin's Trophy
Instant
$0.75
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.58
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Putrefy
Instant
$0.15
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Abrupt Decay
Instant
$0.95
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Curtains' Call
Instant
$0.42
Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Destroy two target creatures.
Brainstorm
Instant
$1.3
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Frantic Search
Instant
$0.67
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Dig Through Time
Instant
$0.27
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
My Precious // Allure of Power
Legendary Artifact — Equipment // Instant — Adventure
$1.58
Equipped creature has hexproof and can't be blocked.
Equip—{2}, Pay 2 life.
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Sorceries (12)
Volcanic Torrent
Sorcery
$0.27
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Volcanic Torrent deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn.
Farseek
Sorcery
$0.42
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cultivate
Sorcery
$0.35
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Kodama's Reach
Sorcery — Arcane
$1.5
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Rampant Growth
Sorcery
$0.17
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Skyshroud Claim
Sorcery
$0.75
Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Blasphemous Act
Sorcery
$0.81
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Ponder
Sorcery
$1.82
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Treasure Cruise
Sorcery
$0.23
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.
Ancestral Vision
Sorcery
$0.33
Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Target player draws three cards.
Inevitable Betrayal
Sorcery
$1.17
Suspend 3—{1}{U}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{U}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Hit the Mother Lode
Sorcery
$0.66
Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Artifacts (3)
Arcane Signet
Artifact
$0.4
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Whispersilk Cloak
Artifact — Equipment
$1.84
Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}
Lands (38)
Command Tower
Land
$0.27
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Exotic Orchard
Land
$0.23
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Path of Ancestry
Land
$0.22
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.36
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Terramorphic Expanse
Land
$0.15
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Evolving Wilds
Land
$0.1
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Crumbling Necropolis
Land
$0.32
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.
Ash Barrens
Land
$0.19
{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Bad River
Land
$1.32
This land enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Grasslands
Land
$0.34
This land enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Rocky Tar Pit
Land
$0.25
This land enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Basic lands: 7 Swamp 6 Forest 6 Island 6 Mountain
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