The Commander
Haste
When Tersa Lightshatter enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.
Whenever Tersa Lightshatter attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, exile a card at random from your graveyard. You may play that card this turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Tersa wants to fill the graveyard fast, then attack to exile and cast free cards off the top of your bin every turn. You loot on every recast, churn through your deck, and grind incremental card advantage that mono-red usually lacks. Build a wide, aggressive curve plus impulse/graveyard payoffs and convert that velocity into a flood of cheap threats and burn.
Strengths
- Repeatable card advantage and looting in a color starved for it
- Cheap, hasty body that pressures immediately and protects itself by attacking
- Synergizes with discard outlets, madness, and graveyard recursion
- Easy to recast and rebuild around at only three mana
Weaknesses
- Random exile means inconsistent and sometimes useless hits
- Mono-red lacks strong interaction and ramp
- Reliant on connecting in combat, so good blockers and removal slow it down
- Graveyard hate can shut off the attack trigger entirely
Key Cards
- Faithless Looting — Cheap way to dump cards into the yard to hit the seven-card threshold fast.
- Underworld Breach — Turns the graveyard you're filling into a combo engine and explosive turns.
- Birgi, God of Storytelling — Generates mana off the cheap spells Tersa lets you replay for big chains.
- Wheel of Misfortune — Refills your hand and stocks the graveyard while disrupting opponents.
- Squee, the Immortal — A recurring discard fodder and reliable graveyard fuel that's never truly gone.
- Valakut Awakening — Filters dead cards into gas while feeding the bin for the attack trigger.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana like Jeweled Lotus, Mana Crypt, and ritual effects to enable big Breach turns, plus more reliable discard outlets and cheap recursion to guarantee the seven-card threshold. Lean into a tight, low curve so random graveyard hits are almost always castable, and include free interaction like Pyroblast and Deflecting Swat to protect your engine.
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
- ▸Aggro beatdown backed by relentless card advantage
- ▸Burn and direct damage replayed from the graveyard
- ▸Underworld Breach combo turns for an explosive finish
- ▸Big reanimated or impulse-cast threats overwhelming the board
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — Looting and graveyard replay let you reuse burn and rituals repeatedly.
- Aggro — Haste and steady card flow keep a wide red board pressing every turn.
- Graveyard Combo — Underworld Breach and cheap recursion turn the stocked yard into kills.
- Reanimator (Red) — Discard outlets plus impulse draw enable cheating big threats from the bin.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
