Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Commander / EDH Affinity Artifact Mono-Red Tokens Treasure

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Artifact (25)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Goldvein Pick
• 1x Hexplate Wallbreaker
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Pit Trap
• 1x Portal to Phyrexia
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Tome of Legends
• 1x Transmutation Font
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (7)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Big Score
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

Creature (23)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus *list*
• 1x Cityscape Leveler
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Generous Plunderer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Mycosynth Golem
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Threefold Thunderhulk
• 1x Treasure Nabber
• 1x Triplicate Titan

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Imposing Grandeur
• 1x Pirate's Pillage
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Strike it Rich
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Visions of Ruin
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hall of Tagsin
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 18x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Power Depot
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Treasure Vault
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x War Room

Enchantment (1)

• 1x The Brothers' War

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Artifact (10)

• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Brainstone
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Reckoner Bankbuster
• 1x Retrofitter Foundry
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Unwinding Clock

Creature (6)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Cybermen Squadron
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Ruin Grinder
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Xorn

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Reckless Endeavor
• 1x Seize the Spoils

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Land (1)

• 1x Sanctum of Eternity

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Descent into Avernus

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Long story short, lots of artifacts, particularly ramp and stuff that makes treasures, and with Chiss-Goria having haste, this deck can take off REAL quick.

OVERVIEW

Play Chiss-Goria, then pray a little every time he attacks. Lots of treasure generation and rocks to speed the gameplan along!

For the record, 6 treasures are all you need to cast the commander, since he'll see 6 treasures, dealing with the 6 generic in his cost via affinity, and then you sac 3 of them for the triple red. Though personally I'd use lands or repeatable ramp for that, if you can spare it, treasures are ridiculously useful to uh... hoard, I guess. Makes his attack trigger REAL easy to pay for things with.

Long story short, when you go to cast something with affinity, the mana value is locked in then and there, so sacrificing treasures to pay for the stuff WITH affinity, won't affect that affinity at all. Hence, 6 treasures = up to "12" mana to cast something with affinity.

Your ramp works in the same way kinda, arcane signet taps for red AND reduces a cost by 1, it's good stuff.

Also, as a mindset thing, a lot of people see Chiss-Goria's "Exile 5" effect and that none of them return to your library afterwards and see that as an enormous downside. I prefer to treat the exiled cards as though they were at the bottom of the library, where I probably wouldn't have seen them this game anyways. Or you can run Karn, the Great Creator to forcefully dig cards back out of exile if you want, you do you.

NOTABLE CARDS

Embercleave

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One of few artifacts you can cast IMMEDIATELY after exiling it with Chiss-Goria's effect thanks to flash, and it even equips automatically. Giving the 5/4 dragon sudden double strike is pretty good, turns out.

Hexplate Wallbreaker

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Since Chiss-Goria's effect is on attack, this lets you trigger it twice per turn! Just swing wildly with it once you're able to, the extra combat is more important than the life of the soldier the card generates, and once said soldier bites the dust, THEN you can slap it on Chiss-Goria who should be evasive enough already to not have too many problems using it.

Inspiring Statuary

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Fantastic ramp method, and turns your treasures into permanent mana rocks of sorts. Hell, turns ALL of your artifacts into permanent mana rocks of sorts. If there's literally anything you don't mind tapping to pay for a casting cost, this spell included, feel free to tap it to pay for stuff.

Pit Trap

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I kinda like this thing. Is removal that sits there and counts towards affinity, makes people think twice before swinging at you with something they care about.

Scroll Rack

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Did you draw a fantastic, but high cost artifact spell? Gently place it back on top of your library with this, then punch someone with the big artifact-loving dragon your deck is named after.

The Reaver Cleaver

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This card is crack. Gives Chiss-Goria a small stat boost, but more importantly, will generate you 6 treasures upon connecting with an opponent if there's someone that can't block you. Remember, that effectively gives you TWELVE mana to play with when it comes to casting artifacts with Chiss-Goria. That's a Blightsteel Colossus.

Big Score

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There are multiple effects in that deck that say "discard a card, draw 2, make 2 treasures" and they are all SUPER good at giving the deck some gas. If you can avoid saccing your treasures, then those are gonna be a HUGE help when it comes to casting stuff with Chiss-Goria's ability.

Dockside Extortionist

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You could list this card in pretty much any deck with red and say "yeah it helps win games real goodly" and this deck is no different, but on top of Dockside being insane already, it effectively doubles up your treasures in this for the sake of Chiss-Goria's ability. If you play this mid-game, you should have absolutely no issues casting ANYTHING you exile.

Brass's Bounty works in pretty much the same way.

Goblin Welder

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As much as I like keeping the treasures around, it's probably worth it to use this to sac one to return a swole artifact from your grave to play. On the off chance that's not something you can do, you can alternatively use it to mess with people's boards if they have some artifacts in their grave!

Imposing Grandeur

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Everyone ditches their hand and draws more! Sure this gives your opponents new cards but... it probably isn't giving them NINE new cards...

EDITS

2023/11/15

Replaced Wurmcoil Engine with Threefold Thunderhulk

2024/05/13

Replaced 1 Mountain with Sanctum of Eternity

Replaced Ruin Grinder with Transmutation Font

Replaced Inspiring Statuary with Generous Plunderer

2024/09/23

Replaced Dockside Extortionist with Treasure Nabber

Date added	1 year
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.02
Tokens	Blood, Clue, Copy Clone, Food, Gnome 1/1 C, Golem 3/3 C w/ Flying, Golem 3/3 C w/ Trample, Golem 3/3 C w/ Vigilance, Myr 1/1 C, Powerstone, Rebel 2/2 R, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure
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