Solphim

Format: Commander

Commander: Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-red burn and group slug strategy led by Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap damage-amplifying creatures and enchantments, casting the commander on Turn 4, and utilizing doubled noncombat damage to rapidly deplete the table's collective 120 life points. Rather than relying on combat damage or infinite combos, the deck uses symmetrical burn spells like Acidic Soil, multi-target spells like Fiery Confluence, and spellcraft pingers like Guttersnipe and Fiery Inscription to apply overwhelming burst pressure. Life-gain denial pieces such as Sulfuric Vortex and Rampaging Ferocidon ensure that opponents cannot buffer their life totals against incoming damage. The deck operates reliably on an on-curve mana base with efficient spot removal for opposing creatures and artifacts, though it suffers from limited card draw and vulnerable reliance on its commander to maintain lethal damage scaling.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Acidic Soil
• 1 Anger of the Gods
• 1 Arc Lightning
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arrow Storm
• 1 Awaken the Inferno
• 1 Banefire
• 1 Barbed Lightning
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Browbeat
• 1 Chain Lightning
• 1 Chain Reaction
• 1 Chandra's Incinerator
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
• 1 Electrostatic Field
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fanatic of Mogis
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiery Confluence
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Forgotten Cave
• 1 Gandalf, Spark Starter
• 1 Grab the Prize
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Harsh Mentor
• 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1 Koth, Fire of Resistance
• 1 Light Up the Stage
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Magus of the Wheel
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Mind Stone
• 33 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Neheb, the Eternal
• 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Risk Factor
• 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1 Shivan Gorge
• 1 Shock
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Spinerock Knoll
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Sulfuric Vortex
• 1 Sunspine Lynx
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tectonic Giant
• 1 The Dawning Archaic
• 1 The Fire Crystal
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 War Room
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble