May Zeus Strike me Down if i'm Lying by user4554608

Format: Commander

Commander: Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

Solphim, Mayhem Dominus heads a mono-red burn deck designed to rapidly deplete all three opponents' life totals through amplified noncombat damage. The primary game plan deploys cheap pingers such as Firebrand Archer, Coruscation Mage, and Thermo-Alchemist on early turns, followed by Solphim on Turn 4 to double all noncombat damage dealt to opponents. Starting on Turn 5, symmetrical and multi-target burn spells like Flame Rift, Boltwave, and Fiery Confluence deal devastating chunks of damage that quickly overwhelm standard 40-life buffers. The deck leverages high redundancy in burn spells and static multipliers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell and Fiery Inscription to maintain pressure even if individual pieces are answered. Defensively, Solphim can discard cards to gain an indestructible counter, while redirection spells like Bolt Bend punish single-target removal. The strategy closes games on Turn 7 after two opponent response cycles, trading defensive versatility for relentless, table-wide damage velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger of the Gods
  • 1 Arc Lightning
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Infantry
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fanatic of Mogis
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Forked Lightning
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hour of Devastation
  • 1 Jaya Ballard
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Leyline of Lightning
  • 1 Lightning Blast
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Crafter
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mechanized Warfare
  • 28 Mountain
  • 1 Needle Drop
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Risk Factor
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Sear
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Smoldering Crater
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 The Vision and Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Young Pyromancer