Math Is For Blockers, Imodane by ExenephaN

Format: Commander

Commander: Imodane, the Pyrohammer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive mono-red burn strategy helmed by Imodane, the Pyrohammer. The primary game plan converts single-target creature burn spells into symmetrical damage dealt to each opponent. By deploying damage multipliers like Dictate of the Twin Gods, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, and Mechanized Warfare, the deck creates quadratic damage scaling: multipliers increase the damage dealt to the targeted creature, and then multiply Imodane's triggered damage again as it hits each opponent. The deck accelerates in the early turns using mana rocks and Treasure generators, lands Imodane on turn four, and begins firing high-efficiency burn spells on turn five. Massive damage sources like Shivan Meteor and copied burn spells can wipe out entire tables in one or two turn cycles. While the strategy is vulnerable to target removal and creatureless opposing boards, its speed, redundancy, and incidental board control make it a lethal clock in casual and high-power pods.

Decklist (111 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Fire Prophecy
  • 1 Fire Servant
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flame Slash
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Imodane, the Pyrohammer
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Invoke Calamity
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Leyline of Resonance
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Axe
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mechanized Warfare
  • 1 Meteor Swarm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mine Collapse
  • 1 Mizzium Mortars
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 21 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nahiri's Warcrafting
  • 1 Purphoros's Intervention
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Roast
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scorching Shot
  • 1 Sear
  • 1 Shivan Meteor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spinerock Tyrant
  • 1 Spite of Mogis
  • 1 Spitting Earth
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Strangle
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thor, Asgard's Avenger
  • 1 Thor, God of Thunder
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unholy Heat
  • 1 Volcanic Spite
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witchstalker Frenzy
  • 1 Wyll's Reversal
  • 1 Young Pyromancer