Inferno FIREBALL! by Gibbarius

Format: Commander

Commander: Inferno of the Star Mounts

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-red aggressive big mana strategy centered around Inferno of the Star Mounts. The game plan accelerates mana production in the early turns using mana rocks, rituals, and mana-doubling artifacts to cast a 6/6 flying, haste dragon that cannot be countered. Once deployed, the deck leverages damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation, Dictate of the Twin Gods, and Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, or power doublers like Unleash Fury and Two-Handed Axe, to trigger the commander's 20-damage direct burn ability or eliminate opponents in single attacks. Auxiliary threats like Terror of the Peaks, Neheb, the Eternal, and Themberchaud provide heavy combat and noncombat damage pressure. While the deck possesses explosive damage velocity and strong creature sweepers, its primary vulnerabilities are a lack of noncreature removal and a low density of repeatable card draw engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alena, Kessig Trapper
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Braid of Fire
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Claws of Valakut
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Doubling Cube
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Extraplanar Lens
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Inferno of the Star Mounts
  • 1 Insult // Injury
  • 1 Irencrag Feat
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serrated Arrows
  • 1 Sigil of Distinction
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 32 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Sozin's Comet
  • 1 Strata Scythe
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Themberchaud
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Xorn