IzzetLegendary Creature — Djinn Wizard // Legendary Creature — Efreet ShamanUvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression
Mana value3Rank#15,966
The Commander
: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three hone counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a hone counter from it" and "When the last hone counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it. It costs 
less to cast this way."
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on Nassari.
Guide
Gameplan
This is a two-faced commander pair (start with either side). Uvilda lets you 'hone' instants/sorceries to recast them later for cheaper, while Nassari steals the top card of each opponent's library every upkeep and grows as you cast spells from exile. You grind value out of the stack, chain big spells at a discount, and either burn the table down or assemble a spell-based combo finish.
Strengths
- Massive card advantage and mana savings from honed spells and opponent libraries
- Color-fixing built in: Nassari lets you cast stolen spells with any color of mana
- Two legends in one slot gives consistent access whether you want value or aggression
- Rewards a high instant/sorcery count, enabling powerful spellslinger payoffs
Weaknesses
- Both halves are fragile 3-drops vulnerable to removal and need protection
- Uvilda is slow—honed spells take three upkeeps before they're castable
- Heavily dependent on the commander staying on board to generate value
- Stolen cards from Nassari are random and must be cast that turn or lost
Key Cards
- Young Pyromancer — Turns your high spell density into a stream of blockers and attackers.
- Archmage Emeritus — Draws a card every time you cast an instant or sorcery, snowballing your spell-heavy build.
- Thousand-Year Storm — Copies every spell you cast, exponentially amplifying your honed and stolen spells.
- Past in Flames — Flashback your graveyard's instants and sorceries for explosive multi-spell turns.
- Swan Song — Cheap protection for your fragile commander and counters to defend combo turns.
- Mizzix's Mastery — Recasts your biggest sorceries from exile, synergizing perfectly with the cast-from-exile theme.
Upgrade Path
Raise your instant/sorcery count and add payoffs like Guttersnipe, Storm-Kiln Artist, and Birgi to convert spell volume into mana and damage. Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Jeska's Will) and cost reducers (Goblin Electromancer, Baral) to enable explosive turns, plus protection (Veil of Summer, Deflecting Swat) for your commander. To push toward cEDH, lean into a storm or Underworld Breach line that exploits cheap cast-from-exile spells.
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
- ▸Beat down with a swollen Nassari plus token armies from spell triggers
- ▸Storm off with copied/recast spells to deal lethal burn
- ▸Cast a discounted big-mana sorcery (e.g., overloaded burn or X-spell) for game-ending value
- ▸Grind opponents out of resources, then finish with a haymaker like a copied Comet Storm
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — A deck packed with instants and sorceries maximizes both Uvilda's hone engine and Nassari's growth trigger.
- Control — Counters and removal protect your value engine while you bury opponents in card advantage.
- Combo — Discounted and repeatable spells from exile enable storm and spell-chain kills.
- Group Slug — Nassari grows into a real threat while you machine-gun damage spells across the table.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
