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Stella Lee, Wild Card
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R U
- Izzet
Created by  JKC
Bracket
7.0 - 7.5
Bracket 3
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ANALYSIS

Overview:

This is a storm-focused spellslinger deck that aims to chain multiple spells together, leveraging cost reduction, ritual effects, and card advantage to generate massive value and eventually win through commander damage, token generation, or Niv-Mizzet, Parun damage triggers.

Primer:

The deck operates by casting multiple spells each turn to trigger various payoffs while building towards a critical mass of mana and spells. The commander, Stella Lee, Wild Card, provides both card advantage through her first ability and spell copying through her second ability, though the latter requires significant setup. The deck includes numerous rituals (Seething Song, Rite of Flame) and cost reducers (Ruby Medallion) to enable explosive turns.

The primary gameplan involves establishing engine pieces like Storm-Kiln Artist, Veyran, Voice of Duality, or The Locust God while chaining cantrips and rituals. The deck can win through various routes, including commander damage with buffed creatures from spell triggers, overwhelming token generation, or direct damage through Niv-Mizzet, Parun. Underworld Breach serves as a powerful recursion engine that can enable storm-style wins.

Weaknesses:

The deck is highly vulnerable to graveyard hate, which shuts down Underworld Breach lines and recursion. Creature removal can disrupt key engine pieces, and the deck struggles against heavy counterspell-based control strategies. The relatively low land count makes it susceptible to land destruction, and the deck can sometimes fizzle if it can't establish its engine pieces or finds the wrong mix of cards.

Most Important Cards:

  1. Underworld Breach
  2. Storm-Kiln Artist
  3. Veyran, Voice of Duality
  4. Jeska's Will
  5. Mana Geyser
  6. Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  7. The Locust God
  8. Mystical Tutor
  9. Sol Ring
  10. Hullbreaker Horror

Attribute Ratings:

  • Speed: 7/10
  • Resilience: 5/10
  • Consistency: 7/10
  • Interaction: 6/10

Rating Justification:

This deck sits firmly in the 7.0-7.5 range due to its ability to generate explosive turns and potentially win around turn 5-6 with the right setup. While it includes powerful interaction and card selection, it lacks the consistency and protection package of higher-powered decks. It's stronger than typical 6.5 decks due to its efficient mana base and tutor package but falls short of 8.0 as it can't reliably threaten wins before turn 4.

Final power level rating: 7.0 - 7.5

The deck shows clear optimization with its mana base, efficient interaction suite, and powerful engine pieces, but its reliance on creature-based engines and susceptibility to disruption keeps it from reaching higher power levels. It can certainly compete at focused competitive tables but would struggle against fully optimized cEDH decks.

DECK LIST
Stella Lee, Wild Card
Creature: 18
($53.36)
1
Archmage Emeritus
2 U U
1
Bria, Riptide Rogue
2 U R
1
Dragon's Rage Channeler
R
1
Flesh Duplicate
U U
1
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
2 U
1
Hullbreaker Horror
5 U U
1
Niv-Mizzet, Parun
U U U R R R
1
Ovika, Enigma Goliath
5 U R
1
Party Thrasher
1 R
1
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
3 R R
1
Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
1 R
1
Simian Spirit Guide
2 R
1
Spellseeker
2 U
1
Storm-Kiln Artist
3 R
1
The Locust God
4 U R
1
Third Path Iconoclast
U R
1
Veyran, Voice of Duality
1 U R
1
Young Pyromancer
1 R
Artifact: 6
($31.79)
1
Arcane Signet
2
1
Fellwar Stone
2
1
Lotus Petal
0
1
Ruby Medallion
2
1
Sol Ring
1
1
Talisman of Creativity
2
Enchantment: 1
($7.57)
1
Underworld Breach
1 R
Instant: 27
($92.82)
1
Abrade
1 R
1
An Offer You Can't Refuse
U
1
Battle Hymn
1 R
1
Brainstorm
U
1
Consider
U
1
Counterspell
U U
1
Deflecting Swat
2 R
1
Desperate Ritual
1 R
1
Dispel
U
1
Dizzy Spell
U
1
Expedite
R
1
Frantic Search
2 U
1
Invoke Calamity
1 R R R R
1
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
1 U
1
Lightning Bolt
R
1
Muddle the Mixture
U U
1
Mystical Tutor
U
1
Negate
1 U
1
Opt
U
1
Pyretic Ritual
1 R
1
Rapid Hybridization
U
1
Seething Song
2 R
1
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
2 U
1
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
1 U U
1
Snap
1 U
1
Storm King's Thunder
X R R R
1
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
2 R
Sorcery: 20
($57.53)
1
Expressive Iteration
U R
1
Faithless Looting
R
1
Glimpse the Impossible
2 R
1
Indomitable Creativity
X R R R
1
Inner Fire
3 R
1
Jeska's Will
2 R
1
Mana Geyser
3 R R
1
Merchant Scroll
1 U
1
Personal Tutor
U
1
Ponder
U
1
Preordain
U
1
Reckless Impulse
1 R
1
Rite of Flame
R
1
Serum Visions
U
1
Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
X R R
1
Solve the Equation
2 U
1
Song of Totentanz
X R
1
Strike It Rich
R
1
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
2 R
1
Windfall
2 U
Land: 27
($64.96)
1
Archway of Innovation
1
Arena of Glory
1
Cascade Bluffs
1
Cephalid Coliseum
1
Command Tower
1
Ferrous Lake
1
Fiery Islet
1
Forbidden Orchard
5
Island
5
Mountain
1
Mystic Sanctuary
1
Otawara, Soaring City
1
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
1
Shivan Reef
1
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
1
Spire of Industry
1
Spirebluff Canal
1
Steam Vents
1
Sulfur Falls

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