Solphim, Scorched Earth

Commander / EDH Burn Group Slug Mono-Red Multiplayer

AEVA

Main Strategy (22)

• 1x Burning Earth
• 1x Crackle with Power
• 1x Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Fiery Emancipation
• 1x Flame Rift
• 1x Flamebreak
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Inferno
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Roiling Vortex
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Slagstorm
• 1x Spellshock
• 1x Steam Blast
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex
• 1x Volcanic Fallout

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Risk Factor
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Creature (21)

• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Eidolon of the Great Revel
• 1x Electrostatic Field
• 1x Erebor Flamesmith
• 1x Exocrine
• 1x Fiendish Duo
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Goblin Chainwhirler
• 1x Grim Lavamancer
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Kessig Flamebreather
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Quakebringer
• 1x Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1x Tectonic Giant
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1x Zo-Zu the Punisher

Ramp (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Lands (36)

• 1x Arena of Glory
• 1x Barbarian Ring
• 1x Blighted Gorge
• 27x Mountain
• 1x Nesting Grounds
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Ramunap Ruins
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x War Room

Targeted Removal (4)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

Boardwipe (2)

• 1x Breaking Point
• 1x Worldfire

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LAST UPDATE: 23/07/2025 - Bloomburrow

PRIMER

I was looking for a fun monocolored commander that was outside of my typical comfort zone. When Solphim, Mayhem Dominus was spoiled, I saw an opportunity to built a simple deck in terms of design that could do a lot of damage. I really focused on the Group Slug approach that aims to burning everyone rather then focusing on spells that burn a single target. Enjoy !

DECK OBJECTIVES

1- Maintain board presence aka not play the scorched earth version of mono-red burn where we burn everything including our own creatures

2- Have decent tempo and card draw options so I don't end up on turn 4 with no cards in end and playing with top deck only as it sometimes happen in mono-red decks

3- Focus on cards that ideally burns all opponents before cards that burn all players and focus on cards that burn all players before cards that burn single player/targets.

KPI DASHBOARD (20/05/2024)

N=50

1. Average Mulligans Required: 0,55
2. Earliest creature cast: 1,83
3. Turn Commander Cast: 3,91
4. Turn Strategy Online: 6.30
5. Turn of Land Miss: 6,45 (TO IMPROVE)
6. Turn Hand Emptied: 7,58
7. Repeatable Net Card Draw: 5,44

The grades in parenthesis is my own assessment based on how I want the deck to behave. For instance, a 3.91 average turn cast for a 4 CMC commander could be terrible in another type of deck. In this case, the main strategy relies on some of the decks most expensive CMC enchantments and X spells. Casting the commander any quicker doesn't really make our strategy online quicker. It actually hinders more strategic earlier plays.

COMBOS

#1: Solphim, Mayhem Dominus + Heartless Hidetsugu
Allows to kill one shot all opponents.

#2: Solphim, Mayhem Dominus + Pyrohemia
Technically not a combo, but an interaction. If solphim has an indestructible counter on it, you can activate pyrohemia for 2 damage per {R} spent thus potentially destroying all other creatures beside Solphim. Also, because Solphim stays on the board, pyrohemia doesn't destroy itself.

PILOTING THE DECK

OPENING HAND
The opening hand must include 3 lands and a low CMC creature for this deck to start adequatly.

Top Ranked	Achieved #48 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #41 position in Commander / EDH 1 year ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Group Slug 1 year ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Foretell
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