IzzetLegendary Creature — Human WizardVadrik, Astral Archmage
Mana value3Rank#11,255
The Commander
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as Vadrik enters.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost 
less to cast, where X is Vadrik's power.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadrik.
Guide
Gameplan
Vadrik is an Izzet spellslinger commander who scales his cost reduction off his power, so you grow him and then chain cheap (often free) instants and sorceries. Early turns set up day/night flips and pump effects to inflate Vadrik's power, then you unload a barrage of spells for tempo, card draw, and ultimately a lethal X-spell or copy-storm finish.
Strengths
- Massive cost reduction can make big X-spells and expensive bombs effectively free
- Day/night flips passively grow Vadrik and your discount every turn cycle
- Naturally synergizes with the deep Izzet spell-copy and draw package
- Snowballs hard once power is high, generating explosive single-turn output
Weaknesses
- Relies on the commander staying alive; lots of value vanishes if Vadrik is removed
- Reduction only helps instants/sorceries, not your artifacts/creatures
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate and counterspells on key payoff spells
- Day/night can be disrupted or be awkward to flip reliably without dedicated cards
- Can be slow to come online if power-pumping pieces are missing
Key Cards
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Core Cards
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Win Conditions
Win conditions appear once Wyrm has covered this commander.
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — His cost reduction turns every instant and sorcery into a cheap engine piece.
- Combo — Free or near-free spells enable copy/recursion loops and X-spell kills.
- Control — Cheap counters and removal let you protect Vadrik while drawing toward a finish.
- Big Mana / X-spells — Cost reduction makes huge X-spells castable for a fraction of their cost.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
