Rémi’s Custom Deck – Zada, Hedron Grinder (Commander Mono Red)
Celebrate the arrival of 2026 with this explosive, storm-focused Commander deck! Led by Zada, Hedron Grinder, the deck turns every instant and sorcery into massive chain reactions, creating cascading triggers, copied spells, and multi-target chaos.
Perfect for players who enjoy fast, interactive, and high-energy gameplay, where planning the right sequence of spells produces fireworks-level turns.
✔️ Core Game Plan
This deck thrives on copying spells, generating tokens, and triggering massive chains:
• Targeted copies: Zada copies your instants and sorceries across all your tokens, turning even cheap spells into multi-target explosions.
• Storm-style triggers: Cards like Impact Tremors, Guttersnipe, Ingenious Artillerist, and Reckless Fireweaver convert token creation into board-wide damage, amplifying every spell cast.
• Chain reactions: Casting a single spell can trigger multiple copies, token generation, and cascading effects, giving each turn the feel of a fireworks display.
✔️ Ramp and Card Advantage
Mana acceleration & fixing: Sol Ring, Thought Vessel, PuPu UFO, Storm-Kiln Artist, Runaway Steam-Kin, Myriad Landscape
Card draw & filtering: Faithless Looting, Ancestral Anger, Daring Discovery, Highway Robbery, Fists of Flame, Renegade Tactics
Token generators: Dragon Fodder, Brimstone Roundup, Krenko, Mob Boss, Young Pyromancer, Legion Warboss, Stridehangar Automaton, Rally at the Hornburg, Forbidden Friendship
Recursion & loops: Dreadhorde Arcanist, Efreet Flamepainter, Past in Flames, Izzet Chemister, Squee, Goblin Nabob, Sorceress’s Schemes
✔️ Interaction & Board Control
While primarily stormy and fun, the deck has tools to manage threats and maintain tempo:
• Removal & disruption: Abrade, Explosive Entry, Dreadmaw’s Ire, Goblin Negotiation, Raze the Effigy, Suplex
• Pump spells & combat tricks: Temur Battle Rage, Titan’s Strength, Antagonize, Bulk Up, The Chase Is On
✨ Special Additions – Maxime’s Signature
This deck highlights cards that turn every spell into a chain reaction and an explosive storm turn:
• Heat Shimmer – Copy a creature you control and give it haste. Target Zada, and your entire board is cloned, creating a massive army ready to attack and trigger additional spells instantly.
• Storm-Kiln Artist – Generates a Treasure for every instant or sorcery cast or copied, fueling explosive spell chains and amplifying Zada’s copied abilities.
• Runaway Steam-Kin – Produces additional mana whenever you cast instants or sorceries, letting you chain multiple spells in a single turn and maintain storm momentum.
• War Room – Pay 1 life and 3 mana to tap it and draw a card. This repeatable, low-cost engine keeps your hand full, ensuring constant storm fuel for massive copied spell sequences.
• Bulk Up – Pumps all your creatures; when combined with Zada’s copies, your tokens instantly become a massive, high-powered army, ready to attack or fuel more triggers.
• Display of Power – Copies each spell you control on the stack. This allows you to double the value of bomb spells or turn a copied spell like Kari Zev’s Expertise or Involuntary Employment into a pseudo-Insurrection, taking control of multiple opposing creatures in one turn.
• Daring Discovery – Cast on Zada to maximize your storm potential. Each token copies the spell, giving “target creature can’t block” effects for flavor while simultaneously discovering multiple spells costing 4 or less. With almost every spell in the deck costing 4 or less, this effectively refills your hand or fuels stormy chain reactions, making it a key enabler for explosive turns.
Together, these cards turn every spell cast into a cascading fireworks display of copies, triggers, and chaos, perfectly capturing the stormy, celebratory energy of New Year 2026.
✔️ Victory Through Storm
The deck wins by combining Zada’s copying ability with cascading triggers, overwhelming opponents with damage, tokens, and multi-target spell effects.
Each spell contributes to board-wide chaos and explosive value, making every turn feel like a carefully orchestrated storm of fireworks—the perfect way to welcome 2026.
1 Zada, Hedron Grinder [Commander]
1 Abrade [Removal]
1 Agate Assault [Removal]
1 Ancestors' Aid [Ramp]
1 Ancestral Anger [Draw]
1 Antagonize [Pump]
1 Bedlam Reveler [Draw]
1 Brimstone Roundup [Tokens]
1 Bulk Up [Pump]
1 Daring Discovery [Draw]
1 Demand Answers [Draw]
1 Display of Power [Copy]
1 Dragon Fodder [Tokens]
1 Dreadhorde Arcanist [Recursion]
1 Dreadmaw's Ire [Removal]
1 Efreet Flamepainter [Recursion]
1 Expedite [Draw]
1 Explosive Entry [Removal]
1 Faithless Looting [Draw]
1 Firespitter Whelp [Burn]
1 First Day of Class [Counters]
1 Fists of Flame [Draw]
1 Flick a Coin [Draw]
1 Forbidden Friendship [Tokens]
1 Goblin Negotiation [Removal]
1 Grab the Prize [Draw]
1 Guttersnipe [Burn]
1 Heat Shimmer [Copy]
1 Highway Robbery [Draw]
1 Impact Tremors [Burn]
1 Ingenious Artillerist [Burn]
1 Involuntary Employment [Theft]
1 Izzet Chemister [Recursion]
1 Kari Zev's Expertise [Theft]
1 Krenko, Mob Boss [Tokens]
1 Legion Warboss [Tokens]
1 Loyal Apprentice [Tokens]
1 Mogg War Marshal [Tokens]
31 Mountain [Land]
1 Myriad Landscape [Land]
1 Past in Flames [Recursion]
1 PuPu UFO [Ramp]
1 Quarrel's End [Draw]
1 Rally at the Hornburg [Tokens]
1 Raze the Effigy [Removal]
1 Reckless Fireweaver [Burn]
1 Reckless Lackey [Draw]
1 Recoup [Recursion]
1 Renegade Tactics [Draw]
1 Rile [Draw]
1 Runaway Steam-Kin [Ramp]
1 Sazacap's Brew [Draw]
1 Scampering Surveyor [Ramp]
1 Smoldering Crater [Land]
1 Sol Ring [Ramp]
1 Sorceress's Schemes [Recursion]
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob [Recursion]
1 Storm-Kiln Artist [Ramp]
1 Stridehangar Automaton [Tokens]
1 Sudden Breakthrough [Ramp]
1 Suplex [Removal]
1 Temple of the False God [Land]
1 Temur Battle Rage [Pump]
1 The Chase Is On [Pump]
1 Thought Vessel [Ramp]
1 Titan's Strength [Pump]
1 War Room [Land]
1 Wayward Guide-Beast [Creature]
1 Young Pyromancer [Tokens]
1 SwiftFoot Boots [Protection]