Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Commander / EDH* Aggro Artifact Dragons Mono-Red Trample

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Creature (39)

Artifact (20)

Sorcery (5)

Instant (4)

Commander (1)

Land (30)

Enchantment (1)

1x Sneak Attack

Maybeboard

Creature (6)

Instant (4)

Artifact (3)

Enchantment (3)

Sorcery (2)

Deck Philosophy

You should play this deck if:

You are looking for an optimized, early-mid game deck.
You fancy playing mono-red aggro decks.
You fancy playing expensive mana creatures.
You really want to play both Darksteel Colossus and Blightsteel Colossus.
You want refrain from winning via infinite combo.

Deck Strategy

The deck is very easy to pilot. We are going full aggro on this one, ensuring three main targets are achieved throughout the game:

TARGET 1: You want to ramp as fast as possible in early game. A good opening hand should allow you to cast Phurphoros on T2 or T3. It is possible to cast it on T1 as well. Once Phurphoros is on the battlefield it is not that easy to remove. Alternatively, a very powerful opening hand includes Sneak Attack, which may easily replace your commander for the rest of the game if it isn't removed.

TARGET 2: Keeping a mana-dense opening hand means that you may have few or no big creatures to play. Usually, this is offset by the first few draw steps. If you want to play it safely, make sure you have at least one wheel in your opening hand. The deck runs Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Misfortune, Reforge the Soul, Runehorn Hellkite, Ruin Grinder, Magus of the Wheel, and Dragon Mage. Additional cards to refill your hands are Sandstone Oracle, Knollspine Dragon, and Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion. The deck runs additional cards to help you drawing once empty handed.

TARGET 3: This is the core of the deck: exploiting your commander to cheat powerful creatures in play. This target uses several synergies, in particular:

Blightsteel Colossus = kills an opponent with no blockers with total constitution equal or higher than 2. You can also copy it with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to finish another opponent as well. The card can be tutored with Gamble.
Avatar of Slaughter or Terror of Mount Velus = they synergize well with almost all creatures you want to cheat in, especially Ancient Stone Idol, Darksteel Colossus, Blightsteel Colossus, Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, or Triplicate Titan.
Moraug, Fury of Akoum and/or Scourge of the Throne and/or Combat Celebrant = Moraug makes wonders with fetchlands as lons as you play them after your first combat phase (check the card's ruling on Scryfall). Combined with Avatar of Slaughter or Terror of Mount Velus and any other big creature, it can potentially deal lethal to all your opponents.
Pandemonium and/or Terror of the Peaks = this generates a substantial amount of damage to any target (generally players). They synergize very well with Ancient Stone Idol, Phyrexian Triniform, Triplicate Titan, Wurmcoil Engine, and Utvara Hellkite.
Balefire Dragon and Port Razer = if you managed to deal damage with Port Razer to an opponent while potentially wiping a different opponent with Balefire Dragon, you can essentially clear your opponents' board by swinging with Razer to each opponent who you dealt damage with balefire before. This also leads to X additional attack phases where X is the number of your opponents (to which you managed to deal damage to).

Notably, the deck also two infinite combos gravitating around Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker which are collateral to the strategy. These are:

Combat Celebrant + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker = infinite attack phases, (potentially) infinite damage.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Port Razer = infinite attack phases, (potentially) infinite damage.

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Jan. 30, 2024

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In Memory Jar, out Reforge the Soul ---> Memory Jar works better on tempo; I don't have any deck manipulation to successfully exploit the miracle ability.

In The One Ring, out Delina, Wild Mage --> Delina underperformed, and I need an additional draw source to avoid the common problem of empty hands or draw-pass turns.

Replaced Spinerock Knoll with a basic --> just an overall underperforming land that enters tapped.

July 2023 Updates — July 14, 2023

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June 2023 Updates — June 21, 2023

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February 2023 updates — Feb. 14, 2023

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Revision 61 See all

(3 months ago)

+1	Memory Jar	main
-1	Reforge the Soul	main

Date added	2 years
Last updated	3 months
Key combos	Combat Celebrant + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Port Razer
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	28 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.30
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Construct 6/12 C, Copy Clone, Golem 3/3 C w/ Flying, Golem 3/3 C w/ Trample, Golem 3/3 C w/ Vigilance, Powerstone, Treasure
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