The Heart of my Cards

Commander / EDH Mono-Red

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Removal (15)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Ricochet Trap
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Vandalblast

Land (36)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Homeward Path
• 29x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Winding Canyons

More Combat (6)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Fury of the Horde
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Seize the Day

Spell Ramp (4)

• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Tutor (2)

• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Gamble

Draw (13)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Etali Love (9)

• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Void Winnower

Lock (6)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Boom / Bust
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Stranglehold

Haste (5)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Artifact Ramp (11)

• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gauntlet of Might
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Beater (7)

• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower

Topkek (3)

• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Utility (1)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage

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Sideboard

Other (5)

• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Defiler of Instinct
• 1x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nalfeshnee

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Maybeboard

New (36)

• 1x Anzrag's Rampage
• 1x Arena of Glory
• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Brainstone
• 1x Conch Horn
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1x Eldritch Immunity
• 1x Imposing Grandeur
• 1x Jeska, Thrice Reborn
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Kozilek, the Broken Reality
• 1x Kozilek's Return
• 1x Lavaspur Boots
• 1x Mithril Coat
• 1x Null Elemental Blast
• 1x Orcish Librarian
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Powerbalance
• 1x Rabbit Battery
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Spawnbed Protector
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x Ulamog, the Defiler
• 1x Visions of Ruin
• 1x War Room

Land (11)

• 1x Arena of Glory
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x War Room

Draw (5)

• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Imposing Grandeur
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1x War Room

Topkek (5)

• 1x Brainstone
• 1x Conch Horn
• 1x Orcish Librarian
• 1x Powerbalance
• 1x Sequestered Stash

Haste (2)

• 1x Lavaspur Boots
• 1x Rabbit Battery

Eldrazi (1)

• 1x Spawnbed Protector

Gross (1)

• 1x Ulamog, the Defiler

Protection (10)

• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Eldritch Immunity
• 1x Lavaspur Boots
• 1x Mithril Coat
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum

Removal (6)

• 1x Anzrag's Rampage
• 1x Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1x Kozilek's Return
• 1x Null Elemental Blast
• 1x Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1x Visions of Ruin

Ramp (4)

• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Spawnbed Protector
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver
• 1x Visions of Ruin

Utility (3)

• 1x Jeska, Thrice Reborn
• 1x Kozilek, the Broken Reality
• 1x Return the Favor

Recursion (1)

• 1x Spawnbed Protector

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Got a guy to leave a LGS with Boom//Bust off Etali's trigger. Sorry man.

How to Play Etali: A Definitive Guide

• Step one: "Haha guys I'm playing mono-red, what am I going to do?"
• Step two: Cast Etali
• Step three: Luck out and cast someone else's Kozilek on turn 4

Current Card Swaps

Explorer's Scope has been a fun card and one of the few pieces in the topkek category that lets Etali sneak extra value out while attacking. It did it's job fairly well; If Etali would hit a land, instead he ramps us and then gets another shot at exiling something useful. The issue with Explorer's Scope is it requires that Etali be attacking with it equipped to get it's full value and at that point this becomes a real win-more card. Chaos Wand is one I'm curious about. It offers a form of card advantage and can utilize the both the MLD of this deck as well as the superior construction of other decks to net value. Gotta give it a shot at least.
In this mini update, I am dropping half of the remaining dragons in the deck. While I mourn the loss of a pet card, I can't think of a time this card has stolen artifacts for me. If it ever hits the field, it's immediately recognized by the players with 5 artifacts and is promptly killed. If it is in my hand, it's either a dead card or worse than my other options (I can think of a 6 CMC dino I'd rather be casting.) Swapping this guy out for Oblivion Sower acts to: 1) Lower the threat level of this flip; 2) Keep and guarantee the ramp that comes from this flip.
Finally, I guess it would be a little unfair to say I am cutting half of the dragons in this deck considering this is a one to one substitution. Balefire Dragon is being swapped out for War of the Spark's Ugin, the Ineffable. This really is a no-brainer. Balefire Dragon is a card I always pitch when it comes to that. I have never cast this off Etali, I have never attacked somebody with this and I have never cleared a board with this. Sad to say, Balefire Dragon is a 7 cost waste of space in the deck. Ugin, on the other hand, reduces the cost of around 1/3 of the deck, draws me cards and acts as removal. Nothing else needs to be said about this.

Massive Updates

Etali has been my hallmark commander since college and I have been horribly neglectful of my favorite deck. For whatever reason, the poor dino has been subject to my desire to replace her with whatever new mono-red commander releases this week (the most recent of whom is Herigast.) Today, I am doing a massive update to the deck and finally give it the facelift it deserves. Thank you Powerbalance for being my sign to bring this deck up to the standards of 2024. Card cuts and additions will be documented in this section of the document once they are decided on for sure, but I have tentative plans to cut some of the harsher lockout effects in favor of more of what the deck really likes to do: Top deck stupid shit way too early.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 5 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.69
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Spirit 2/2 C