The Fire

Commander / EDH Burn Mono-Red Theme/Gimmick

lindleya1

Burn (26)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x Burn from Within
• 1x Chandra's Flame Wave
• 1x Chandra's Outburst
• 1x Chandra's Triumph
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Devour in Flames
• 1x Exquisite Firecraft
• 1x Fated Conflagration
• 1x Flame Lash
• 1x Flames of the Firebrand
• 1x Incendiary Flow
• 1x Incinerate
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Leyline of Combustion
• 1x Liberating Combustion
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lightning Strike
• 1x Oath of Chandra
• 1x Pyromancer's Gauntlet
• 1x Ravaging Blaze
• 1x Red Sun's Zenith
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Shrine of Burning Rage
• 1x Volt Charge

Rituals (4)

• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Seething Song

Chandra (13)

• 1x Chandra Ablaze
• 1x Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
• 1x Chandra, Awakened Inferno
• 1x Chandra, Bold Pyromancer
• 1x Chandra, Fire Artisan
• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Chandra, Flame's Fury
• 1x Chandra Nalaar
• 1x Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
• 1x Chandra, Pyrogenius
• 1x Chandra, Pyromaster
• 1x Chandra, the Firebrand
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Mana (36)

• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mana Flare
• 28x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Boardwipe (4)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Molten Disaster

Commander (1)

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Utility (10)

• 1x Chandra's Phoenix
• 1x Chandra's Regulator
• 1x Chandra's Spitfire
• 1x Electrostatic Field
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Repeated Reverberation
• 1x Smash to Smithereens
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Card Advantage (6)

• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Tormenting Voice

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Damage Amp (2)

• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Furnace of Rath

Mana (1)

• 1x Neheb, the Eternal

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Part of my Figurehead cycle of decks: a set of 6 mono-coloured edh decks, each led by a different figurehead, and each with their own theme to the deck. Check out all of them here: The Figurehead Cycle

This was the last in the cycle, and one of the hardest to decide on a commander for. Well, that's not true. I knew who I wanted as a commander immediately, it just took a long time to convince myself. I didn't want a creature or artifact based deck, since I already have several of those, and I really wanted to make a Burn deck. So, my options were Zada, Hedron Grinder , Ashling the Pilgrim , Heartless Hidetsugu , and Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh  . Zada would have been another creature-based deck really, and a friend of mine already had an Ashling deck under construction, so I was left with 'Tsugu and Chandra. I bounced back and forth between them, because Hidetsugu would be better in multiplayer, but in the end I went with my heart and built Chandra.

So, the theme of this deck is Chandra/Burn.

The Commander

Chandra! God I love her, and now she can actually be a commander! Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh   is a pretty cool little creature, that turns into a pretty epic planeswalker, and all you need to do is 3 damage to someone with her. You can fairly easily accomplish this by attacking someone to deal 2 combat damage, playing a red spell to untap her, and then activating her ability to transform her. Just be careful, she's still vulnerable as a planeswalker.

The Deck

Burn. That's about the gist of it. Lots of Chandra-flavoured spells as well, but most of them are burn anyway. There's a couple of ways you can play this deck, depending on the game you're in. You can try to get Chandra out and transformed, get her to her ultimate, and then just burn everyone, using your burn spells to kill creatures and protect her. Or, if she's being targeted a lot, just go straight for face. The benefit of Chandra as a commander is that she's not completely necessary to the deck, she just helps it do what it was already doing.

The Combos

Not many combos in this deck either, but there are a couple.

• Repercussion + Blasphemous Act / Chain Reaction / Molten Disaster : Quite often gamewinning, especially in the case of Blasphemous Act . You tend not to have many creatures, and if you would die you can manipulate the stack in your favour. Since all the Repercussion damage instances use the stack as a triggered ability, you can stack them so that the damage to you happens last.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Chandra, Awakened Inferno, Emblem Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Folders	The Figurehead Cycle
Based on	Roaring Flame of Kaladesh LordShadowZ EDH