Iraxxa, Empress of Mars

Iraxxa, Empress of Mars is a aggressive commander that leverages two distinct mechanics: battle cry for combat punch and a paradox engine that rewards casting spells from outside your hand. Your core gameplan is to attack hard and early while building card advantage through her token-generating ability. The key is setting up ways to cast spells from your graveyard, library, or exile—think flashback cards, suspend spells, cascade effects, and cards that let you play lands or spells from your graveyard. Each spell cast this way generates a 2/2 token while Iraxxa swings in, buffing your entire team with battle cry.

You'll want a mix of early aggressive creatures to pressure opponents while you assemble your paradox engine. Red's access to looting, wheeling, and temporary exile effects pairs perfectly with flashback and other cast-from-elsewhere mechanics. Cards like Underworld Breach, Light Up the Stage, and Wrenn and Six generate both tempo and tokens. Your win condition is usually combat damage from a growing army of tokens backed by Iraxxa's evasion and anthem effect, though you can also grind value until opponents can't keep up.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.