Jaya Ballard: Feel the Burn

Commander / EDH Mono-Red

mercury01

Artifact (25)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gauntlet of Might
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x Underworld BreachGC

Land (38)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 20x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Terminal Moraine
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Wastes

Sorcery (9)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

Creature (11)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Brash Taunter
• 1x Deal Broker
• 1x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Kumano, Master Yamabushi
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Torbran, Thane of Red Fell

Instant (7)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Skred
• 1x Thrill of Possibility

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Skarrgan Firebird

Artifact (1)

• 1x Magebane Armor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Glacial Crevasses
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Land (1)

• 1x Wastes

Instant (1)

• 1x Pyroblast

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Light Up the Stage
• 1x Shattering Spree

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Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

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This is a mono-red control deck, so it's intended to build slowly before securing the win with a doubling effect and any number of burn spells, including the commander herself, or just beat down with value creatures. Jaya's Inferno ability with a Basilisk Collar attached is usually enough to put you significantly ahead of your opponents. It includes some elements of red "draw" - that is, exiling cards off the top to cast them - and there are ways to recur spells if needed. To add some consistency, there's an Imperial Recruiter package to fetch up utility creatures, and some of the usual red synergy with artifacts.

Suggestions are welcome.

Note: I already own a Painter's Servant, but I have intentionally left it out as 1. it tends to make me the Archenemy, and this deck functions best when it's just under the radar, 2. it makes boardwipes like Ugin's -X and All is Dust far more risky, and 3. Sword of Fire and Ice becomes useless.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 6 Rares 13 - 3 Uncommons 9 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Treasure
Folders	+1 Non-Budget, Jaya decks