The First Flame

Commander / EDH Mono-Red

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Artifact (22)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Infiltration Lens
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Shrine of Burning Rage
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tenza, Godo's Maul
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Tower of Fortunes

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

Creature (16)

• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Fanatic of Mogis
• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Obsidian Fireheart
• 1x Prophetic Flamespeaker
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Viashino Heretic

Land (36)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 26x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Acidic Soil
• 1x Banefire
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Flame Rift
• 1x Flamebreak
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Sizzle
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Instant (6)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Fall of the Titans
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Wild Ricochet

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Introduction

Once a " Worthy Minotaur ", Neheb failed in his convictions. Nicol Bolas saw the potential of his burning soul, and thus he was reborn as The Eternal flame.

His is the fury of the wildfire, the boiling blood of the volcano. He fights you not because you've wronged him, but because you're there - Flavor text of Blood Knight .

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Why Neheb?:

Neheb was created when I came into possession of a foil Doubling Cube . I started considering options for big mana decks. Eventually I had to make a choice between Omnath , Kozilek , and the man himself . I eventually chose Neheb, because I I already have a Green deck, and I could just as easily play many of the cards I would've played with Kozilek in the Neheb deck!

How to Play/Philosophy of Deck Show

How to Play:
First of all, it isn't impossible to win without Neheb , but you will feel as if you aren't doing much, so you want to try and resolve Neheb as early as possible. Keep opening hands with mana rocks to start the game. However, if you don't have one, you can still set up for a potent few turns after he comes down. Once he is on the field, you want to cast a multi - target damage spell to create a large amount of mana and resolve a large payoff spell .

Philosophy:
One of the most important parts of Neheb is to realize that he doesn't require you to actually do combat damage to gain his triggered mana ability. This is critical, and the reason he's a solid commander! When you're playing The First Flame , you're saying that you enjoy creating copious amounts of mana to cast insanely high- costed cards that you shouldn't be playing most of the time without some form of cost reducing commander . Commander is a format where Fireball -esque spells are generally shunned for their " strict upgrades ". In this deck, you get to Kamehameha multiple people in the face, and you don't even need 5 episodes to gather the energy to do it! Take that, Frieza! You'll be making enough mana to make storm decks jealous.

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You'll enjoy Neheb if:

• Your playgroup games take two hours to play, because everyone plays nice and no one ever tries to win.


• You remember the original X spell


• You like spell damage more than combat damage, and like huge killstreaks


• You enjoy playing Scorpion in the Scorpion vs Subzero fight


• Your starter was Charizard, and you always started every fight with Fire Blast


• Your favorite build on Diablo III was the Wizard Phoenix build, which allowed you to fire everything

You'll hate Neheb if:

• You like to tutor for cards, as there are no tutors in this deck


• You like to hide your plans, as everyone knows you're going to cast banefire on their face


• You have nightmares about someone Mana Drain ing your X spell


• You're afraid your friends will hate your Ceaselessly Discharging on their life totals


• You couldn't beat this song on expert


• You're tired of losing your Silver placement matches to Brand Support

The Name of the Deck

The deck name is based off of the plot of the third Dark Souls installment. I thought it made sense, since relighting the flame is a key part of the story line of Dark Souls in general, and Neheb is apparently eternal, meaning he's probably like Gwyn.

Soundtrack for the Deck (Your reaction when you cast your first Earthquake, X = 35)

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Win Conditions

X Damage to Their Faces

The main way to win with this deck is to cast an X spell to kill your opponents post combat, during second main phase. It's a good idea to hit your opponents for some damage before you cast big spells, you want to do loads of damage with these!

Aggravated Assault

If you have the opportunity to attack your opponent without while you have Aggravated Assault in play, and your opponents can't stop you, you may be able to generate enough mana to enter infinte combat steps. And, in wise words of Koth of the Hammer, "if there can be no victory, Neheb will fight forever .

Kamikaze

Though not a win by the technical definition, it's hard not to feel yourself the victor when you hit everyone on the board with an Earthquake for 50, including yourself. Personally, sticking myself with a grenade and killing 3 opponents always feels like a win.

Burn it all

Obsidian Fireheart might not win you the game, but I can tell you right now that I once generated 54 mana in a 4 player game, and then proceeded to burn six lands under each opponents' control. It made one player scoop, and the other two had visible signs of pain on their face. My god is was glorious. Also, even if they kill you, the lands will continue to burn .

Combat

Technically you can win through the combat step if you are able to generate enough board presence with your excess mana. I've beat a few friends down with an Inferno Titan and Furnace of Rath .

Help/Suggestions?

1.) Tell me what you think about the deck!

2.) You've tried out the deck yourself, what do you think?

Updates

6.16.2018

Deck first published.

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Archived Information

6.16.18 Show

Deck first uploaded

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	City's Blessing