Extreme Immolation

Commander / EDH Burn Casual Combo Infinite Combo RW (Boros)

NV_1980

Creature (20)

• 1x Angrath's Marauders
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Boros Reckoner
• 1x Coalhauler Swine
• 1x Deathless Angel
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Mogg Maniac
• 1x Palisade Giant
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Protector of the Crown
• 1x Spitemare
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Volcano Hellion
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Flickerform
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Guilty Conscience
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Pariah
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Saving Grace
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Sigarda's Aid

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (10)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Magmaquake
• 1x Martyrdom
• 1x Mortal's Ardor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Volcanic Fallout

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 11x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

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Welcome to Extreme Immolation !

You are looking at a Boros combo-burn deck. Its commander, Tajic, Blade of the Legion, is a 2/2 legendary human soldier with 'Indestructible. Battalion — Whenever Tajic, Blade of the Legion and at least two other creatures attack, Tajic gets +5/+5 until end of turn.’.

A discussion during Friday-Night-Magic amongst our playgroup, led to the conclusion that none of us had ever played against a Boros deck that did not rely on combat damage to pull in wins. Inspired by that, we did a search on the interwebs and came across a commander deck made by Oeselbroesel as well as several Modern-type Boros decks that relied on creatures that could inflict non-combat damage on players when they were damaged themselves. We took ideas from all of that and turned it into a Commander variant. We chose Tajic as our commander, as he is a cheap-to-cast indestructible creature, which is really helpful for the strategy that we want to adopt. We greatly appreciate feedback to any of our decks, including this one. Before you give any however, please take note of the following:

1. Having fun at MTG, is more important to us than winning games. We want our opponents to have a fun time playing against us too. That makes it more likely people will want to play against us again. This attitude is reflected in the way in which we build decks. They do not need to be invincible; not even competitive. We are ok with decks containing infinite combos though, as they can produce some hilarious results. So well done if you can pull one off; especially if it is original.
2. We no longer buy cards, but in cases that we feel a card really adds to our collection, we still trade them. This means that whenever you are suggesting a card we do not own, chances are slim it is going to end up in our deck. Please do not take this personally. Also, please do not let this stop you from making suggestions. Suggestions that do not make it into this deck, will still be mentioned on this page and might be used by others.
3. Please do not forget to include the card(s) you would remove to make room for your recommended card(s).
4. Please do not recommend any cards with infect or cards whose sole purpose is to destroy basic lands (non-basic lands are fair game). Our playgroup has banned them.

With that being said, thank you for all your support and if you should decide to use our ideas, have lots of fun with them.

How to use this deck

We are out for a taste of hot fire! That’s right. The more of it that is directed at us, the better! Sounds a bit strange, does it not? Yet it’s exactly what our card selection thrives on. Saying it like that, makes us come across as a bunch of raving masochists. Fear not, we aren’t that weird. We intend to create a situation in which we can deal lots of damage. If necessary, to ourselves as well. That last bit of damage needs to be either redirected to a creature that can reflect damage, or compensated by some sort of life-gain. In some cases, this will result in infinite combo’s that will blast everything (except us) off the field.

If possible, we start by getting ourselves some rocks and ramping options. Our favourites include Land Tax, Arcane Signet and good, old Sol Ring. Should these options be unavailable to us, we will use filters (Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack) or tutors (Enlightened Tutor, Steelshaper's Gift, Open the Armory) instead.

Next, we want to make it exceedingly hard for opponents to harm us, while we gather damage-combo pieces. This works best by getting an indestructible and hexproof creature with the ability to have any damage meant for us, to be redirected at it. We can create this situation by summoning Tajic, Blade of the Legion or Stuffy Doll and attach Pariah or Martyrdom to it. We can also summon creatures like Protector of the Crown or Palisade Giant and make them indestructible with Darksteel Plate or Shielded by Faith. In both cases, we finish by attaching Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots.

We finish the game by causing lots of damage to everything (including ourselves) or better yet, we do so through one of the deck’s many high/infinite damage combos.

Card choices

Ramps, cheapeners and mana sources

Arcane Signet, Chromatic Lantern, Land Tax, Mox Opal, Sol Ring and Weathered Wayfarer.

Draw and tutors

Enlightened Tutor, Idyllic Tutor, Mind's Eye, Open the Armory, Scroll Rack, Sensei's Divining Top, Sram, Senior Edificer, Steelshaper's Gift, Stoneforge Mystic, Stonehewer Giant and Sunforger.

They will take it

Martyrdom, Palisade Giant, Pariah, Pariah's Shield, Protector of the Crown, Saving Grace and Stuffy Doll.

Indestructibility

Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Boros Charm, Darksteel Plate, Deathless Angel, Hammer of Nazahn, Shielded by Faith, Shield of Kaldra and Tajic, Blade of the Legion.

Now you have a taste

Arcbond, Boros Reckoner, Coalhauler Swine, Guilty Conscience, Mogg Maniac and Spitemare.

Damage

Angrath's Marauders, Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, Gratuitous Violence, Heartless Hidetsugu, Magmaquake, Manabarbs, Molten Disaster, Price of Progress, Pyrohemia, Volcanic Fallout and Volcano Hellion.

Protection and Utility

Basilisk Collar, Defense Grid, Emeria Shepherd, Flickerform, Grand Abolisher, Lightning Greaves, Loxodon Warhammer, Mortal's Ardor, Path to Exile, Platinum Angel, Sigarda's Aid, Swiftfoot Boots and Swords to Plowshares.

Notable exceptions

• Alms Collector; we decided to opt for some more tutor cards instead of this.
• Spiteful Sliver/Truefire Captain; we are still debating amongst ourselves whether to switch out one of our damage cards for this one.
• Smothering Tithe; have not really needed this yet, we always seem to have the mana we need to make our plays.
• Inferno/Star of Extinction; great cards as large damage enablers in this deck, but a bit expensive to cast and for the combos we often only need a little damage to set them off.
• General's Regalia; nice in this deck, but the three mana we would need to use it each time is better served elsewhere.

Synergy/Combos

Infinite Damage Combos

• Stuffy Doll + Guilty Conscience; tap Stuffy to deal 1 damage to itself. It also deals 1 damage to chosen player. Because of Conscience, Stuffy receives 1 damage, which allows it to deal 1 damage to the chosen player again. Rinse and repeat until player is dead.

• Coalhauler Swine + Darksteel Plate/Hammer of Nazahn + Pariah/Saving Grace/Martyrdom: Deal damage to Swine. It will deal damage to all players, including us. Because of Pariah, this damage will be redirected to Swine, which will again deal damage to all players. Rinse and repeat until everybody (but us) is dead.

• Boros Reckoner/Coalhauler Swine/Mogg Maniac/Spitemare + Darksteel Plate/Shielded by Faith + Guilty Conscience: Deal damage to Reckoner/Swine/Maniac/Spitemare. They, in turn, will deal damage to a target of choice. Because of Conscience, they receive the same amount of damage, which they can then dish out again. Rinse and repeat until everything is dead.

• Martyrdom/Saving Grace/Pariah/Pariah's Shield + indestructible creature + Arcbond: Deal damage to creature. It will deal damage to all creatures and players, including us. Because of Pariah-like effects, this damage will be redirected to our indestructible creature, which will again deal damage to all players. Rinse and repeat until everything (but us) is dead.

• Boros Reckoner/Spitemare + Darksteel Plate/Hammer of Nazahn + Gratuitous Violence/Angrath's Marauders: Deal damage to Reckoner/Spitemare. It will deal twice as much damage as a result to itself, which in turn will allow it to deal damage (to itself) again. Repeat until Reckoner/Spitemare deals enough damage to kill off a player.

• Volcano Hellion + Boros Reckoner/Spitemare/Stuffy Doll: Choose an opponent with less life than you. When casting Hellion, name that opponent’s life total. Have Hellion deal that to Reckoner/Spitemare. Use Reckoner/Spitemare abilities to finish off the opponent.

• Volcano Hellion + Boros Reckoner/Spitemare + Martyrdom/Saving Grace/Pariah/Pariah's Shield: Name an amount of damage that’s higher than anyone’s life-total. Have Hellion deal that to Reckoner/Spitemare. This damage will be dealt twice; once to Reckoner/Spitemare and once as a redirect because of the pariah-effect. Use Reckoner/Spitemare abilities to finish off two opponents.

• Heartless Hidetsugu + Pariah/Pariah's Shield + Angrath's Marauders/Gratuitous Violence: Allows us to kill off every player, except us.

We can deal damage to our creatures (or ourselves if need be) through the use of cards like Ancient Tomb, Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, Manabarbs, Pyrohemia, Price of Progress, Volcanic Fallout and Magmaquake.

Infinite Life Combos

• Boros Reckoner/Spitemare + Darksteel Plate/Hammer of Nazahn + Basilisk Collar/Loxodon Warhammer/Mortal's Ardor: Deal damage to Reckoner/Spitemare. Have Reckoner/Spitemare deal damage to themselves (thereby gaining life). Rinse and repeat as often as you want.

• Volcano Hellion + Mortal's Ardor/Stonehewer Giant’s ability to attach Basilisk Collar/Loxodon Warhammer to Hellion: Name an insanely high number. Deal this damage to a target and yourself. Gain life based on this damage in both cases.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Monarch Emblem