Neheb's Benedict

Commander / EDH Artifact Burn Combo Eggs Mono-Red Storm

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Burn (16)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Fall of the Titans
• 1x Fanning the Flames
• 1x Insult / Injury
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Pia's Revolution
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Quest for Pure Flame
• 1x Red Sun's Zenith
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 1x Shrine of Burning Rage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Recursion (9)

• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Salvaging Station
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Workshop Assistant

Combo Finishers (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Molten Nursery
• 1x Nettle Drone

Lands (32)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x High Market
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Keldon Megaliths
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 22x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Draw (9)

• 1x Act on Impulse
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Hazoret's Undying Fury
• 1x Saheeli's Directive
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Tormenting Voice

Mana (6)

• 1x Cathodion
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Sol Ring

Copying Stuff (4)

• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Commander (1)

Eggs (10)

• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Filigree Familiar
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Implement of Combustion
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Terrarion

Sac Outlets (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
• 1x Thermopod

Cost Reducers (4)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar

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Neheb's Benedict

What we have here is your typical Mono-R Eggs shell built around a seemingly innocent Neheb burn deck. Originally, I had seen how much fun Fluffy Boi was having and I wanted to try something similar in Red. My first idea was to put together some kind of artifact storm deck using Aetherflux Reservoir and Treasonous Ogre to make huge mana alongside Neheb. Unfortunately, with the absence of the Boi, I was having trouble getting enough recursion to keep the deck going. That's when I decided to hop over to the Eggs train.

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What the Heck are Eggs?

Eggs are a type of artifact that you "crack open" (sacrifice) to draw a card. The cheaper and easier to sacrifice, the better. When used in conjunction with other combo pieces to cheapen and recur our eggs, we're able to draw our deck. Until we can set up said combo pieces, eggs help us in the meantime by providing card draw to a red burn deck. Neat!

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So what's the plan?

Reduce, reuse, recycle. By using artifact cost-reducers like Foundry Inspector, we can make our eggs free to cast. Add some mana production, a Myr Retriever and a Blasting Station and voila, you drew your deck! Proceed to spit out a few more cost reducers, an Aetherflux Reservoir, and suddenly your Retriever loop kills the table.

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Wait, why are you using Neheb instead of Daretti?

The short, lame answer is that I just don't personally enjoy planeswalker commanders. The better answer is that Neheb is just so much fun. Why play full-on eggs and just durdle around for the majority of your turns when you could be burning fools instead? And though it may not seem it at first glance, the two strategies actually form a pretty solid marriage. Burn suffers from running out of fuel, but the excessive draw and mana produced by running artifact loops puts a lot of gas back in your tank. Eggs suffers from not doing anything until it does something, so the burn side of the deck lets you feel like you're actually playing the game. I've also been able to find quite a few choice cards that tie the two together:

Combustible Gearhulk, Shrine of Burning Rage, Walking Ballista, and Scuttling Doom Engine are all artifact-recursion-friendly burn sources.

Inspiring Statuary makes for a fun time with any of your big X spells.

Pia's Revolution has some cute interactions. Any cost-reduction turns your eggs into bolts, since if the opponent doesn't take the damage you threaten looping a single egg to draw your deck.

And at the end of the day, it's just so satisfying to ramp up Neheb's trigger into a massive Saheeli's Directive.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.79
Tokens	Goat 0/1 W