Blackened by Arngrim

Format: Commander

Commander: Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This mono-red Group Slug and Burn deck is commanded by Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. The strategy focuses on establishing early symmetric punisher cards that tax every core game action, including tapping lands (Manabarbs, Burning Earth), casting spells (Spellshock, Pyrostatic Pillar), and playing lands (Zo-Zu the Punisher, Ankh of Mishra). Solphim breaks parity on these effects by doubling all noncombat damage dealt to opponents and their permanents while leaving the pilot's incoming damage at base value. The deck accelerates with 1-2 CMC artifacts to deploy Solphim on turn 3 or 4, protecting it with its built-in indestructible counter, Deflecting Swat, and Bolt Bend. Opponents face critical lethal pressure by turn 5 as damage scales exponentially, finishing on turn 6 through an untapping Heartless Hidetsugu or a flurry of doubled mass burn spells. Dense board wipes keep creature strategies suppressed while Blood Moon cripples greedy mana bases.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aether Flash
  • 1 Anger of the Gods
  • 1 Ankh of Mishra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dwarven Ruins
  • 1 Exocrine
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fault Line
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Ghitu Encampment
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glittering Stockpile
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Keldon Megaliths
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Disaster
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Pyrostatic Pillar
  • 1 Quakebringer
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rolling Earthquake
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Scour from Existence
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 23 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Meteor
  • 1 Unstable Obelisk
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Volcanic Fallout
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher