Task-Oriented

Commander / EDH* Artifact Burn Mono-Red Voltron

JakeHarlow

Instant (7)

• 1x Beacon of Destruction
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Pulse of the Forge
• 1x Punishing Fire
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Reverberate

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x Breaking Point
• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Devil's Play
• 1x Flame Wave
• 1x Hammer of Bogardan
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Red Sun's Zenith
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Sudden Demise
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (3)

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

Artifact (22)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mirari
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Pyromancer's Gauntlet
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Kaldra

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Chandra Ablaze
• 1x Chandra, Pyromaster
• 1x Chandra, the Firebrand
• 1x Koth of the Hammer

Creature (14)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Charmbreaker Devils
• 1x Fire Servant
• 1x Furyborn Hellkite
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Hostility
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Moonveil Dragon
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Skarrgan Firebird
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (34)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Ghitu Encampment
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 23x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Instant (8)

• 1x Boil
• 1x Burnout
• 1x Lavaball Trap
• 1x Overblaze
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Boiling Seas
• 1x Boom / Bust
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Demonfire
• 1x Flashfires
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Obliterate
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Shatterstorm
• 1x Siege of Towers
• 1x Surreal Memoir

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Leyline of Punishment

Artifact (13)

• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Foriysian Totem
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Helm of Kaldra
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Scythe of the Wretched
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra Nalaar

Creature (15)

• 1x Chandra's Phoenix
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hellkite Igniter
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Ryusei, the Falling Star
• 1x Scourge of Kher Ridges
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
• 1x Stormbreath Dragon
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Wojek Embermage

Land (7)

• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Dwarven Hold
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Keldon Megaliths
• 1x Madblind Mountain
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Teetering Peaks

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Note: Please help me out here, T/O buddies. I need lots of advice for this build. I'm trying to make it as good as possible without breaking the bank.

My initial attempt at building a quasi-viable Jaya Ballard, Task Mage Commander deck. My first inclination is that the deck will be light on creatures, heavy on spells, but this could change. I also seem to be leaning toward an equipment Voltron sub-theme as well. Jaya might not be an A-list general, but she's kind of original (in that most folks don't play her) and I think she has a lot of fun potential.

I've just completed the "cutting down to 100" phase. The Maybeboard has a bunch of cards I recently cut. Many are cards I feel are playable, but I cut them because they are either a bit niche, redundant, or off-theme. Many of them are still worthy of consideration, though.

I still really wanted to find a spot for the Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts combo. I'd really like to hear suggestions on what I could drop to fit this pair in. I most recently cut Scourge of Kher Ridges and Stormbreath Dragon for them. I hate to lose the Stormbreath, but I really can't see what else I'd cut.

A major concern at the moment is: do I not have enough lands?

Any help from friends (or anyone) is appreciated during this process.

Note: A short treatise on strategy and design philosophy is forthcoming. Need to finalize the mainboard first (please help)!

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Weaknesses inherent to Mono-Red that I've tried to address:

• Weak Recursion

• Weak Card Advantage

• Weak Permanent Mana Acceleration (strong temporary sources like Desperate Ritual and Seething Song)

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.11
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 6/6 R, Elemental Shaman 3/1 R
Folders	Commander, Stuff to get