Like its name implies, Turbo decks are designed with speed as the foremost value, with resiliency pushed to second place.

If you're piloting a Turbo deck, you're going full throttle from the very first turn, stacking ritual after ritual to accelerate your game plan, immediately tutoring up the most potent cards in the game, and aiming to play them as soon as a window presents itself...usually as soon as you have the mana to do so.

cEDH's other two strategies - Stax and Midrange - both plan on using the first two turns to set up the resources necessary to capitalize on a longer battle. Turbo, meanwhile, attempts to end the game just as the other strategies are setting up.

The cost for this speed is long-term strength; if turbo falls flat in its early-game attempts, then it has a much harder time recovering. It isn't impossible - these decks still run plenty of their own engines - but they're far from the primary plan.

If each cEDH strategy were to have a mascot, then turbo's would most definitely be Rograkh, Son of RohgahhRograkh, Son of Rohgahh. On its own, this card does nothing. It's not an engine, it's not an outlet, it doesn't even serve a real role in combat. Despite all that, this little guy is one of cEDH's strongest commanders, and it all comes down to its synergies with other cards.

With Rograkh, every card in the Fierce GuardianshipFierce Guardianship cycle becomes live from turn one onwards. Similarly, Mox AmberMox Amber is a guaranteed Mox RubyMox Ruby. Both Culling the WeakCulling the Weak and Diabolic IntentDiabolic Intent have guaranteed sac-fodder. The list goes on.

Plus, it adds red to your color identity - the color of turbo!

Rograkh isn't meant to be a commander that does anything specific. Rather, it's a commander that lets you do everything generically-commander oriented.

Speaking of red, next up is another cheap red commander, although this one packs so much of a punch that the decks it helms are all-in on supporting it from the 99.

On the front side, Ral, Monsoon MageRal, Monsoon Mage is a legendary 1/3 Human Wizard creature for which reduces all instant and sorcery spells you cast by .

Additionally, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell during your turn, you flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Ral deals one damage to you. If you win the flip, you may exile Ral and return him to the battlefield transformed.

Ral's strategy is all based around resolving Ral as soon as possible, casting as many cantrips and rituals in that same turn as you can, and only transforming Ral after the last cast (preferably once you've hit exactly six spells). Why? Because, on his back side, Ral becomes Ral, Leyline Prodigy, a blue-red planeswalker with two starting loyalty counters that enters with an additional loyalty counter for each instant and sorcery spell you cast this turn.

This is where the six instants/sorceries come in - Ral's final loyalty ability costs eight loyalty to use, and when it resolves will cause you to exile the top eight cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells from among them without paying their mana costs.

From here, you'll just keep churning, casting and recasting Ral, using his final ability time and time again.

Wouldn't you know it, next up on our list is another blue and red commander that tends towards centralizing the strategy of its 99.

At its core, Vivi OrnitierVivi Ornitier is a combo piece that, with any of CuriosityCuriosity, Ophidian EyeOphidian Eye, or Tandem LookoutTandem Lookout, becomes a near-unbeatable value engine, drawing three cards off of every noncreature spell cast, dealing one damage to each opponent, and putting a +1/+1 counter on the base 0/3 Vivi.

These counters feed into Vivi's mana ability, which allow you to pay once per turn (on your turn only) to add X mana in any combination of and/or , where X is Vivi's power.

Vivi's mana cost of give the deck a bit more flexibility, allowing it to play both Midrange and Turbo, depending on the style the pilot is aiming for. But don't mistake this flexibility for a lack of explosivity. Turn-one Vivi isn't too terribly uncommon, and neither is landing a Curiosity on the following turn.

Here comes another planeswalker! Dihada, Binder of WillsDihada, Binder of Wills is a deck that's all based around the second loyalty ability, so let's dig into it.

For , Dihada, Binder of Wills is a legendary Dihada planeswalker with five starting loyalty. Her second ability costs three loyalty to activate, and causes you to reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand, the rest into your graveyard, then create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the number of cards put into the graveyard this way.

Most of the time, Dihada's second loyalty ability functions as essentially "mill four, create four Treasures."

Because of this, Dihada is a combo piece with FlickerFlicker and Underworld BreachUnderworld Breach, as flickering and reusing Dihada nets infinite Treasure and infinite self-mill.

Last but not least, we come to the only true-green deck in the Turbo field, and that's Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsLumra, Bellow of the Woods.

For , Lumra is a legendary Elemental Bear creature with vigilance, reach, and power and toughness each equal to the number of lands you control. Additionally, when Lumra enters, mill four cards, then return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield to tapped.

If Lumra is paired with a land-sacrifice outlet, such as Zuran OrbZuran Orb, and a land-untapper, such as Amulet of VigorAmulet of Vigor, then it becomes painfully easy for Lumra to churn through an entire deck. By sacrificing all of your lands in response to casting Lumra, Lumra will die due to having zero toughness (this happens before the enters-trigger resolves), sending it right back to the command zone.

Assuming you mill at least two mana worth of lands as a result of Lumra's trigger, you can immediately repeat the process, as the additional lands will cover the commander tax.

Lumra has a terribly difficult mana cost for a Turbo deck, but thanks to the likes of Elvish Spirit GuideElvish Spirit Guide and Mana VaultMana Vault it's actually deceptively easy in the early turns.

However, unlike most other Turbo decks, Lumra does tend to start casting win attempts from turns three onwards. Despite this, Lumra's ability to force a win attempt consistently and early does make it classically Turbo.

In order for Turbo decks to consistently have the explosive turns which the strategy relies on, each deck has a core ritual package.

These cards are all pretty straightforward: Pay less mana than you get out, preferably with an upfront cost no greater than two mana. On average, these spells net about one mana each, but the best of the best can add an extra two or even three mana if their conditions are met.

Just like with rituals, Turbo decks similarly turn to a critical mass of tutors to increase the consistency of their opening turns.

This of course means running the best-in-class. Vampiric TutorVampiric Tutor and Demonic TutorDemonic Tutor come to mind here, but this also means scraping the bottom of the barrel. These tutors aren't bad cards by any stretch of the imagination, but they're first on the chopping block for decks which tend to see more cards over the course of a longer game.

Turbo decks take a very proactive approach to interaction, attempting to prevent a stack war from breaking out rather than selectively engaging in it.

To do so, they run a suite of best-in-class effects such as the classic SilenceSilence, along with a broader suite of similar effects, such as Mandate of PeaceMandate of Peace.

Beyond commander-dependent (such as Vivi-plus-Curiosity) and typical win conditions (such as Underworld BreachUnderworld Breach or Thassa's OracleThassa's Oracle), Turbo decks are principally defined by the burst draw which assembles to their win packages.

These might not constitute a game-ender in and of themselves, but they might as well.

A tried-and-true classic of cEDH, Ad NauseamAd Nauseam asks a simple question: Can you count to five? Just , that's all it takes. Decks built around Ad Nauseam will often pick up about 25 or so cards upon resolution, a pile that's all but guaranteed to include a Turbo deck's bevy of rituals, tutors, and silences.

By far the easiest burst-draw to resolve, the only difficulty with Ad Nauseam (besides fighting through the counter war) is the toll it takes on the average mana value of spells in your deck.

NecropotenceNecropotence is a bit trickier of a mass-draw effect to resolve, as it's highly dependent on the mass of flash-enablers in your deck.

Borne Upon a WindBorne Upon a Wind, Valley FloodcallerValley Floodcaller, High Fae TricksterHigh Fae Trickster, etc. - these cards allow the end step resolution of Necropotence activations to effectively transform into the ridiculously broken "Pay one life: Draw a card."

Without these flash enablers, Necropotence is still a busted card, but the mass-draw it affords becomes restricted by harsh timing rules.

Last up is an option that has become a bit less popular in recent years but is nonetheless still a potent spell to resolve: Peer into the AbyssPeer into the Abyss.

For , this sorcery causes target player to lose half their life and draw half their deck, rounded up (for each).

While Peer into the Abyss draws more cards (on average) than Ad Nauseam, it's brought down a peg by its sorcery-speed nature, higher mana cost, and dependence on targeting a player. This all makes it more awkward to cast, but nonetheless ludicrously effective once resolved.