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Price
€498.74of €500.00
Overall win rate
7%15 wins in 201 scored games
Games
260 (59)played in 26 tournaments, 59 not scored (time limit)
Rank
60in the rankings up to €500 · Elo 1264 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 12 of them basic
Game Changer
3of at most 3 allowed
Combos
5complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €500 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (16)

Instants (31)

Sorceries (4)

Artifacts (10)

Enchantments (4)

Lands (34)

Fire Lord Azula
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (5)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Aggravated Assault + … → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
    20 versions, each with one of: Sozin's Comet · Avatar Roku, Firebender · Firebending Student · Zuko, Firebending Master · Electro, Assaulting Battery · The Last Agni Kai and 3 more
  • Reiterate + Bonus Round + … → Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count, Infinite artifact ETB
    4 versions, each with one of: Seething Song · Storm-Kiln Artist · Pyretic Ritual · Desperate Ritual
  • Reiterate + Narset's Reversal + … → Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite red mana, Infinite storm count
    3 versions, each with one of: Jeska's Will · Twinning Staff
  • Narset's Reversal + Fire Lord Azula + Storm-Kiln Artist + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Frantic Search · Bonus Round
  • Fire Lord Azula + Snap + Dualcaster Mage → Infinite untap of lands you control, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB

Commander Spellbook lists 31 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 31 entries
  • Reiterate + Jeska's Will → Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite red mana, Infinite storm count
  • Storm-Kiln Artist + Seething Song + Reiterate → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Twinning Staff + Narset's Reversal → Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Fire Lord Azula + Narset's Reversal + Frantic Search → Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers, Infinite looting
  • Fire Lord Azula + Narset's Reversal + Storm-Kiln Artist → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Narset's Reversal + Reiterate → Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Fire Lord Azula + Snap + Dualcaster Mage → Infinite untap of lands you control, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Reiterate + Seething Song + Bonus Round → Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite red mana, Infinite storm count
  • Reiterate + Pyretic Ritual + Bonus Round → Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count
  • Reiterate + Desperate Ritual + Bonus Round → Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count
  • Sozin's Comet + Aggravated Assault + Electro, Assaulting Battery → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Sozin's Comet + Aggravated Assault + The Last Agni Kai → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Sozin's Comet + Aggravated Assault + Ozai, the Phoenix King → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Avatar Roku, Firebender + Aggravated Assault + Electro, Assaulting Battery → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Avatar Roku, Firebender + Aggravated Assault + The Last Agni Kai → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Avatar Roku, Firebender + Aggravated Assault + Ozai, the Phoenix King → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Firebending Student + Aggravated Assault + Electro, Assaulting Battery → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Narset's Reversal + Storm-Kiln Artist + Bonus Round → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Firebending Student + Aggravated Assault + The Last Agni Kai → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Sozin's Comet + Aggravated Assault + Leyline Tyrant → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Firebending Student + Aggravated Assault + Ozai, the Phoenix King → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Avatar Roku, Firebender + Aggravated Assault + Leyline Tyrant → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Sozin's Comet + Aggravated Assault + Ashling, Flame Dancer → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Avatar Roku, Firebender + Aggravated Assault + Ashling, Flame Dancer → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Firebending Student + Aggravated Assault + Leyline Tyrant → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Firebending Student + Aggravated Assault + Ashling, Flame Dancer → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Zuko, Firebending Master + Aggravated Assault + Electro, Assaulting Battery → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Zuko, Firebending Master + Aggravated Assault + The Last Agni Kai → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Zuko, Firebending Master + Aggravated Assault + Ozai, the Phoenix King → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Zuko, Firebending Master + Aggravated Assault + Ashling, Flame Dancer → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Zuko, Firebending Master + Aggravated Assault + Leyline Tyrant → Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Dualcaster Mage: AI can't play it
  • Emergence Zone: AI can't play it
  • Izzet Signet: AI can't play it
  • Swan Song: AI can't play it
  • Twinning Staff: adjusted to make room for another replacement
Played instead in the tournament
  • Fated Firepower: replacement
  • Invoke Calamity: replacement
  • Lotus Petal: replacement
  • Rogue's Passage: replacement
  • Thousand-Year Storm: replacement

What the games show

From 201 analysed games in 26 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 96% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Resilient: even in losses it lasts until its 10th own turn on average (all-deck avg: 10th) logged (186 losses)

Weaknesses

  • Little pressure: only avg 14 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (201 games)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.18 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (201 games)
  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 12th own turn (all-deck avg: 11th) logged (15 wins)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 201 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Fire Lord Azula avg 4.8hit in 117 of 201 games
  2. Ozai, the Phoenix King avg 1.8hit in 22 of 201 games
  3. Avatar Roku, Firebender avg 1.3hit in 8 of 201 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Ozai, the Phoenix King avg 16.2hit in 22 of 201 games
  2. Leyline Tyrant avg 10.8hit in 11 of 201 games
  3. Etali, Primal Storm avg 10.8hit in 10 of 201 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Fire Lord Azula 11×201 games in deck
  2. Ozai, the Phoenix King 7×201 games in deck
  3. Avatar Roku, Firebender 4×201 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Mystic Remora 67×avg 0.3 per game · 201 games in deck
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse 22×avg 0.1 per game · 201 games in deck
  3. Azula, Cunning Usurper 21×avg 0.1 per game · 144 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 14% of 738 attackers blocked in total, 11% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive 0%cast in 0 of 188 games
  2. Bonus Round 0%cast in 0 of 201 games
  3. Borne Upon a Wind 0%cast in 0 of 201 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 15 wins came

  • by turn 77%
  • turns 8–97%
  • turns 10–1127%
  • turns 12–1340%
  • turn 14+20%

Combos in play logged Reiterate + Jeska's Will: all pieces cast in 2 games, 0 won · Storm-Kiln Artist + Seething Song + Reiterate: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Twinning Staff + Narset's Reversal: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Fire Lord Azula + Narset's Reversal + Frantic Search: all pieces cast in 3 games, 1 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.69

0
12
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25
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12
3
10
4
2
5
3
6
1
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
11 / 11
Card draw
12 / 11
Removal
10 / 9
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
28 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 65 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
16
Instants
31
Sorceries
4
Artifacts
10
Enchantments
4
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Fierce Guardianship
€51.46
Jeska's Will
€31.27
Morphic Pool
€28.83
Scalding Tarn
€28.11
Deadly Rollick
€22.29
Polluted Delta
€19.12
Bloodstained Mire
€17.32
Training Center
€16.75

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

  • no clear difference Lightning Strike instead of Mental Misstep · win rate 10% with, 6% without (59 / 142 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Nightscape Familiar instead of Firebender Ascension · win rate 9% with, 6% without (77 / 124 games)
  • no clear difference Azula, Cunning Usurper instead of Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive · win rate 8% with, 7% without (144 / 57 games)

10 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €498.74 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 17 · average place 52.1 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 26 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?