Open the Forges by TheUrDragonMaster

Format: Commander

Commander: Purphoros, God of the Forge

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This mono red deck is built around Purphoros, God of the Forge as the primary damage engine, leveraging his ETB trigger that deals 2 damage to each opponent whenever another creature enters. The strategy generates a high volume of creature tokens - goblins, elementals, and other small bodies - through cards like Krenko, Mob Boss, Goblin Rabblemaster, Young Pyromancer, and Impact Tremors. Damage multipliers such as Fiery Emancipation, Dictate of the Twin Gods, and Gratuitous Violence amplify each ping to lethal levels. The deck also contains a compact infinite combo: Goblin Recruiter can stack Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Conspicuous Snoop to create an arbitrarily large number of hasty token copies, which then trigger Purphoros for an immediate win. A handful of land denial/hate pieces (Blood Moon, Manabarbs) serve as asymmetric disruption. The commander is essential - without Purphoros the deck loses its primary win condition and falls back to inefficient combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Act of Treason
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Braid of Fire
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chandra, Flame's Catalyst
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charmbreaker Devils
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Elemental Mastery
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Force of Rage
  • 1 Goatnap
  • 1 Goblin Assault
  • 1 Goblin Charbelcher
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Goblin King
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Trashmaster
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 Hour of Devastation
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Insult // Injury
  • 1 Irencrag Feat
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Leyline of Combustion
  • 1 Magus of the Moon
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Molten Primordial
  • 32 Mountain
  • 1 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Raid Bombardment
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawn of Thraxes
  • 1 Stormbreath Dragon
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Traitorous Blood
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Warlord's Fury
  • 1 Warren Instigator
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Young Pyromancer