IzzetLegendary Creature — Human WizardEruth, Tormented Prophet
Mana value3Rank#5,990
The Commander
If you would draw a card, exile the top two cards of your library instead. You may play those cards this turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Eruth turns every card draw into double-digging impulsive card advantage, exiling the top two cards each time you'd draw and letting you play them that turn. You chain cantrips, rituals, and free spells into explosive Izzet spellslinger or storm turns, then convert that velocity into burn or a combo kill before the exiled cards expire.
Strengths
- Effectively doubles all your card draw, generating enormous selection and tempo
- Synergizes with cantrips, wheels, and 'draw X' effects for massive impulse advantage
- Cheap 3-mana commander that comes down early and snowballs immediately
- Excellent at fueling storm, spellslinger, and prowess strategies
Weaknesses
- Exiled cards are lost if not played that turn, so you must commit mana or waste resources
- Replaces normal draw, which can mill you out or strand expensive spells you can't cast
- Fragile body that dies to any removal, halting the engine
- Vulnerable to graveyard/exile hate and effects that punish casting many spells
- Can be hard to hold cards reactively since everything is dig-and-play-now
Key Cards
- Brainstorm — With Eruth it digs four deep instead of three, all playable this turn for explosive selection.
- Underworld Breach — Recasting cheap spells from the yard while Eruth converts every draw into more fuel enables explosive storm turns.
- Aetherflux Reservoir — The high spell count Eruth enables can power its 50-life laser to close games.
- Mind's Desire — Storm payoff that floods the board with free spells, all playable thanks to Eruth's replacement effect.
- Past in Flames — Flashes back your graveyard for a second wave, turning Eruth's velocity into a kill turn.
- Wheel of Fortune — Drawing seven becomes exiling fourteen cards you can dump all at once.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Jeweled Lotus, Dockside Extortionist) and rituals to convert Eruth's velocity into same-turn explosive plays. Lean into a tight storm or Underworld Breach combo package with Aetherflux Reservoir as the payoff, and protect Eruth with cheap counters and Lightning Greaves. Tighten the curve so exiled cards are always castable, and trim clunky expensive spells that get wasted by the replacement effect.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Aetherflux Reservoir laser after a high spell-count turn
- ▸Underworld Breach + ritual loops into a lethal storm finisher
- ▸Grinding card advantage into repeated burn spells like Fireball or Banefire
- ▸Combo kills assembled from the deep, fast digging Eruth provides
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — Eruth fuels an endless stream of cheap instants and sorceries plus prowess and magecraft payoffs.
- Storm — Doubling impulse draw rapidly builds spell count to lethal storm triggers.
- Combo — The card velocity assembles loops like Underworld Breach with rituals and Aetherflux Reservoir.
- Control — Massive selection lets you find counterspells and removal while out-carding opponents.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
