Iroh, Grand Lotus

Iroh, Grand Lotus is a Temur (blue-red-green) Commander midrange/spellslinger deck built around bending-themed value, ramp, and board control. It looks to accelerate mana with cards like Cultivate, Kodama’s Reach, Rampant Growth, and signets, then leverage Iroh and the Avatar-themed legends to generate value through instants, sorceries, and elemental/bending synergies.

The deck plays like a legendary-tempo/value shell: it uses efficient interaction such as Pongify, Abrade, Chaos Warp, and Beast Within to keep opponents off balance while drawing cards with effects like Beast Whisperer, Expressive Iteration, Harmonize, and Big Score. Its synergies appear centered on Fire/Earth/Waterbending “Lesson” and “Ascension” cards, rewarding you for casting themed spells and developing a board of synergistic creatures.

It typically wins by out-valuing the table, then turning the corner with large board presence, repeated spell payoffs, and splashy finishers like *Sozin