Alania, Divergent Storm is one of the many commanders introduced in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Bloomburro💦w set. This Izzet (blue/red) commander is the go-to commander if you are planning to play an Otter-based deck, or just want a dif💙ferent flavor of spellslinger (or in some cases, both).

Alania, Divergent Storm is "classic Izzet," wanting you to cast and copy a ton of different spells for various effects that offer either damage or value. With Alania's ability to copy the first spells you're casting, you can double up on 🔯a lot of powerful instan⭕t and sorcery effects, as well as your best Otter cards.

Decklist

The decklist consists of one planeswalker, 25 creatures, 11 sorceries, 17 instants, eight artifacts, four enchantments, and 33 lands. The majority of the creature lineup consists of cards that benefit from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:casting noncreature spells, which about half of the deck is made up of.

Key Cards

Alania, Divergent Storm

The commander of the deck, Alania, Divergent Storm is what enables it. Copying your best instant, sorceries, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and Otters is great. This applies to the first spell of each category. This means you can copy the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, and the first Otter spell you cast each turn, letting you copy up to three spells.

If you copy a spell that requires an additional cost (such as discarding a card), you do not need to pay the extra cost again. Instead, you will just get the🐠 effect twice while only paying the cost once.

There is a layer of a group hug element to Alania since you have to have an opponent draw a card in order to copy the spell you cast. However, the copying effect is optional if you don't need to actually copy something. However, if you don't use the effect on the first spell you woඣn't be able to use it on any spell that🐓 turn.

Ashling, Flame Dancer

Ashling, Flame Dancer is a great tool for making sure you always have excess mana to work with. Since Izzet can struggle to ramp on its own, Ashling provides a way to store red mana for however long it's on the battlefield. Even as your turn ends you do not lose red mana until Ashling leaves the battlefield or you spend it.

Since you are going to be casting and copying a ton of spells, triggering Ashling's magecraft ability is very easy. It can help you to dig through your library, burn your opponents and creatures, and give you even more mana to work with. The four red mana Ashling generates on the third trigger of magecraft sticks ar🙈ound thanks to Ashling's static effect if you don't spend it.

Arcane Bombardment

You are going to be casting a ton of great spells, and Arcane Bombardment will let you keep casting them without having to pay their mana cost. While the instant or sorcery that gets exiled from your graveyard is random, you can exile a ﷽lot with Arcane Bombardment quickly to begin copying a ton of spells each turn.

Arcane Bomꦚbardment triggers the first time you cast an instant or sorcery spell each turn, not just your own. That means with instant spells, you can trigger the effect on your opponent's turn and copy all the spells already exiled with Arcane Bombardment.

The copies you make with Arcane Bombardment are still cast, meaning you can copy them with Alania's ability. You can choose the order you cast the copied spells, making sure you're copying the spells you want.

Twinning Staff

Twinning Staff causes all the spells you're copying to be copied again. With both Twinning Staff and Alania on the battlefield, you'll be able to cast three separate instants of the spell. With the very impactful spells, this can be game-winning, and if not that, put you far ahead of♒ the res﷽t of your opponents.

If you have a lot of mana to work with, Twinning Staff can copy spells on its own☂. However, this cost is rather steep, and you're playing it more for the passive ability to gain extra copies rather than copying with Twinning Staff itself, but it's a nice effect to dump mana into if you have it.

How To Play The Deck

Alania, Divergent Storm 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:is a spellslinger deck. This means you are going to be casting a ton of cheap spells to trigger vari🐻ous effects. With Alania, these can be copied to trigger even more effects and push you closer to your win condition.

There is a ton of draw power in the deck so you always have a hand full of spells. Cards like Treasure Cruise, Unexpected Windfall, and Big Score can net you a hefty amount of car🐲ds into your hand if they're copied. This helps you to get🍃 to your key cards quicker, allowing you to start running away with the game.

One of your main win conditions is winning through combat. This is primarily done by amassing a large number of token creatures created by casting noncreature spells. These cards include Third Path Iconoclast, Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Young Pyromancer.

Alternatively, another path to victory is by burn damage. Cards like Guttersnipe, Kindlespark Duo, and Coruscation Mage all burn for your noncreature spells. You can also raise your creatures' stats with Balmor, Battlemage Captain, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bria, Riptide Rogue to make your creatures threatening attacks to clean up ꧂your opponents' life totals after dealing a hefty amount of burn damage.

You can generate an infinite number of spells cast by imprinting Dramatic Reversal onto Isochron Scepter, wh൩ich can lead to infinite burn damage, infinite creatures, and infinite power an🦂d toughness on your creatures, all of which can win you the game depending on what permanents are on the battlefield.

The biggest weakness of the deck is that it is very fragile. If you do not have any spell copy enablers out, the deck does not do a whole lot to hold off attackers. You have to set up quickly and start drawing through your deck to get to your key pieces, and the benefit of how long it takes to set up is that your opponents likely won't see you as a threat, allowing you to not b🐷𝓰e a prime target when it comes to being attacked.