Vial Smasher the Fierce & Thrasios, Triton Hero | Commander Spotlight | Magic: The Gathering | Build

Very cool deck, excited to try it on table top simulator. I feel like Solphim should be an auto include in this deck. Double non combat damage and a solid 5/4 blocker.

oh wow. ive been looking at different partners for vial smasher, and i def overlooked thrasios. i didnt see a clear synergy with vial smasher's ability, but actually the extra cards and lands from thrasios would be excellent, not to mention all the ramp from green.

I love this deck. I play Lithiform Engine instead of Strionic Resonator, I use a bunch of extra turn spells, tutors and glacial chasm bc of the lack of blockers, & protection for Vial Smasher. If you pilot it well there's a good chance you'll be public enemy no. 1 at the table. The random aspect of Vial Smasher will only buy you a few games worth of leniency lol.

I was looking for a partner commander deck for my first ever partner deck and I have to try this out, Great budget deck and looks so fun! I'm thinking about adding One with the Multiverse too. A great 8 Drop and allowing you to cast hopefully big spells for free off the top of the deck once per turn. Thanks for the great video, this deck will be awesome to try out!

This is my favorite deck idea since commander came out. Thank you for even more ideas to spice it up. I call mine smashing discounts. Going all in on cost reduction and alternate costs like evoke and miracle. Not sure if you have these cards but they weren't mentioned in the video and have done well for me so I'll mention em. I would suggest Scion of Draco. Cost 2 less to cast for each basic land type you control. I loved hearing the table groan when I casted it for 4 mana triggering Smasher to deal 12 damage and copying it with resonator. Then when it's in play vial smasher now has lifelink! Running discount cards is great to get huge damage for cheap and having left over mana for instsnt and flash responses. Also resurrection orb is a great equip. Vial smasher has lifelink and if he dies the orb returns him to play, then re equip. I was gonna go damage doublers but I decided to go clones instead. Sakashima, Spark Double, Irenicus Duplication and Helm of the host etc... I had 3 vial smasher + thras + shadows in the warp in play making my Galta 9 less to cast. I casted Galta for 3 and rolled 3 dice giving me better chances to spread 3 triggers of 12 damage across the table. I finished off a game hard casting Blood for the Blood God! 8 damage to one, 19 damage to the other killing him and drawing 8 cards to finish off last player. Primeval protector costs 1 less to cast for each creature your opponents control, so I've casted him for 1 green and dealing 11. Shadows of Mortality has been useful. As soon as we are at 27 or less life, cast it for 2 black to deal 15. When I start dishing out huge hits even random it does make people attack me so I end up losing life to cast it. A lot of it is situational so if that can't be met, then pitch it with looting cards to draw more and feed delve. Super fun! My problem is I am trigger happy so I start dishing out huge damage and making people feel uncomfortable so they remove smasher or go for me. I should probably focus more on not early aggro and ramp more, use thrasios a bit more, and then finish late game. Otherwise I run out of steam or get targeted early.

Awesome deck and video. If you dont mind, where would you place the power level of this deck? Would you consider this deck casual? High power casual?

I have Emrakul and Ulamog in mine!

Awesome deck! It’s my favorite too 😊. One question. Do X spells actually trigger off of Vial smasher? I thought CMC was how much the symbols are on the cards. Ie: Jaya’s immolating inferno would do 3 damage, not how much you put into it. If I’m wrong let me know!

I have all these cards in my deck for this commander set except for Strionic Resonator, I think Roaming Throne would work better but ill give it a try