Artifact (26)
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Akroma's Memorial
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Basilisk Collar
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Batterskull
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Caged Sun
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Coercive Portal
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Commander's Sphere
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Crucible of Worlds
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Expedition Map
- 1x Gauntlet of Might
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Gauntlet of Power
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Journeyer's Kite
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Lightning Greaves
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Memory Jar
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Mind Stone
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Mind's Eye
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Rings of Brighthearth
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Scroll Rack
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Sensei's Divining Top
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Staff of Nin
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Sword of Fire and Ice
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Sword of the Animist
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Sword of War and Peace
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The Immortal Sun
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Tormod's Crypt
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Torpor Orb
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Wayfarer's Bauble
Planeswalker (5)
Land (38)
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Arid Mesa
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Bloodstained Mire
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Buried Ruin
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Inventors' Fair
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Kher Keep
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Mountain
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Mountain
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Myriad Landscape
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Petrified Field
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Scalding Tarn
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Strip Mine
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Tectonic Edge
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Terrain Generator
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Thawing Glaciers
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Thespian's Stage
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Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
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Vesuva
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Wasteland
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Wastes
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Wooded Foothills
Sorcery (10)
Commander (1)
Creature (15)
- 1x Ancient Stone Idol
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Anger
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Deal Broker
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Dire Fleet Daredevil
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Goblin Welder
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Godo, Bandit Warlord
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Hoarding Dragon
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Karn, Silver Golem
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Kozilek, the Great Distortion
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Kumano, Master Yamabushi
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Magus of the Moon
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Skarrgan Firebird
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Solemn Simulacrum
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Steel Hellkite
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Stuffy Doll
Instant (3)
Enchantment (2)
Maybeboard
Creature (1)
Jaya Ballard Control
Decklist Choices
The Commander
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The commander herself that the deck is built to utilize. She allows all the cards in your deck to have 4 modes, pyroblast a permanent, Incinerate anything, Inferno the board and players for 6 or just cast the card. Most of the time you will use pyroblast for a rhystic study or something small that keeps opponents card advantage even with yourself. Incinerate is not used too much but is quite useful and even more so when you have a basilisk collar on her. Finally, dealing 6 to everything and everyone is huge. Unfortunately she hits herself with this ability. Using Protection from Red or Indestructible we avoid this, when we cannot, giving her lifelink will give you a huge amount of life.
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Generally she is not a general that is cast early on, blue mages are always countering her but eventually will need her for the board wipe. Her abilities allow you to have a huge bargaining chip, you can wipe a board, kill pesky permanents or help out people as needed. Now we can't use the ability too much as it does cost you a card each time. Wheels and cards that return to hand help with this. Her strength comes from utility and the ability to help others when it suits you. Use that to your advantage.
Creatures
- One of my favorites from its commander set. This big boy plays really well with Daretti and Welder. He can come down pretty early to block or hit face. He survives inferno and plays well with holding up Jaya's ability. If the board is wrathed he also sticks around to save you. Overall a very solid creature I was glad to give a shot.
- Easy to discard to looting or your commander to give your creatures haste. Most important part is usually the commander will have haste at a later time which can let you board wipe easily as needed. Fairly self explanatory card as this deck lets it hit the grave easier than most red decks.
- Great looter as it draws then discards. Low cost early play or can be used to switch with artifacts in the grave for a low cost. This card comes in and out a bunch but usually ends up back in.
- A new card I am trying out, so far has been quite good despite the anti synergy with Torpor Orb. At worst if that is in play you just loot it or use it with Jaya. Its upside is too large to ignore though.
- One of the most powerful creatures in the deck, it offers a ton of utility with both your grave and your opponents. Bringing back swords, card draw, or gravehate, it gets back whatever you need at the time. Try not playing it too early as you usually only get 1-2 uses out of it.
- Red Stoneforge Mystic, it grabs what you need when you need it. Batterskull for a body and lifelink, Basilisk Collar for a threatening commander or lifegain, or either sword which are always useful. He also is one of the easier ways to do some burst damage to opponents. Just him and Batterskull is 14 damage alone.
- Artifact tutor stapled to a 4/4 flying body at a reasonable cost. The card is good when it dies but with exile becoming more and more common this card is very close to being cut. Just grab things that aren't too powerful with it but can get you more powerful turns. Expedition map is a good example.
- The commander herself I have already gone through in the commander section.
- One of my favourite recent additions. The card is incredible, it gives you chump blockers, attackers to close out a game and another way to hit opponents artifacts during a board wipe or make equipment useless. Be careful of clones or it being stolen as it is just as powerful against you as when you use it yourself.
- A card I will never cut. It protects itself, closes games out, has evasion, draws cards and is one of my top end cards of choice. The double colourless is fairly easy to hit and this card is terrifying to face as you don't know what will resolve any more
- Grave hate, removal, finisher and mana dump. It is another card that could be cut in a much faster meta, but is good most of the time. It has impressed me more than once and stays. It fills your mid game needs and is a great card to draw late in the game while having a size-able body.
- A much easier to remove Blood Moon, the effect is very potent and is easy for you to remove as well to make allies or unlock your large suite of utility lands. Discard to Jaya often in a more casual environment where your opponents might not even have fun if they are newer to the game. This card can be backbreaking to some decks and worth losing your utility lands. Generally punished more polished mana bases.
- I like keeping one Squee/Phoenix effect in the deck. I started around guildpact so I chose this one for nostalgia reasons as well as its massive body in the air and low cost to return to hand. Another notable one to try is Original Squee, Goblin Nabob
or Magma Phoenix preference being the utility of the Phoenix.
- Ramp, Draw, is an artifact, and chump blocks. This is everything this deck wants and red needs. Everyone knows the power of the sad robot but he does extra work in this deck as every mode on him are what we want.
- A very powerful finisher or midrange card with evasion that is another artifact to recur. This card always feels weak until you realize it always gets removed because people are so afraid of what it can do, not what it has done. I do not often connect with it but whenever I do it gets rid of things red struggles with. The card is only as powerful as your opponents give it credit. I don't know how much I like this card, it is a love/hate card for me.
- A slow card that leads to interesting board states and rattle snakes one opponent while giving you political power to get damage on someone who had bunkered up in a pillowfort. It can easily kill one opponent and rarely is a bad draw as it offers so much protection.
Artifacts
- One of the higher cost cards that protects your board from your own board wipes, as well as Jaya from herself. It remains in because I have a soft place for it, but can be too slow sometimes. Other times it's game breaking for you to have. Much stronger if you go more creature heavy.
- The cheapest equipment in the deck, it gives you a ton of life when paired with Jaya and her final mode. It also turns her into a removal stick.
- A resilient blocker, attacker and lifegain tool all rolled into one. A slow card but it will keep you in the game until you fully stabilize or will protect your walkers. Treat it as a creature more than an equipment because that's where it really shines. In a pinch though, it will gain you a ton of life as a very slow basilisk collar replacement.
- Our first mana doubler, feel free to just run them out as they can be recurred and there are multiple copies. It ramps you very far in this basic heavy deck and sets you up to play your large haymakers.
- This card revolves around how you play with it, if you set yourself up for minimal loss it can draw you a ton of cards. Sometimes it cuts off early aggression as in a 4 player game you need only one person to agree with you to draw a card but still threatens to wipe. It prevents others from over extending too fast with the constant threat. Realistically it just draws but sometimes everyone needs a board wipe but one person, its a fun multiplayer tool overall.
- Cheap ramp that can draw you a card instantly with no cost. It is quite powerful as you sometimes need that one extra card to discard to Jaya after your hand has been emptied.
- We run every fetch available as well as sac lands for value. It lets you hit every land drop and recur Valakut and other utility lands with ease. One of the strongest cards in the deck.
- Simple land tutor on a cheap artifact, everything this deck wants. The deck is full of utility lands that are always worth getting. It also gives a shuffle if you have Scroll Rack or Top.
- Our second mana doubler, this one effects opponents too so be careful. Notably this one doesn't care about basics like Gauntlet of Power.
- This switches with Thaumatic Compass
often, but I find you do not need the Maze of Ith effect as much as land drops past your 7th land. It continually fuels the Commander and Valakut while also letting you hit each land drop that is very important to this deck.
- Protection and haste on a cheap artifact, self explanatory card. I prefer the low equip cost over hexproof from Swiftfoot Boots as this deck doesn't target it's own creatures very often.
- A temporary wheel that can be activated at any time. Being attached to an artifact makes it even more useful but having full mana when you crack it is what makes the card so strong. In niche situations you can use it to interrupt a combo players turn.
- A fast mana rock that replaces itself eventually. Simple and easy.
- The slowest card draw engine the deck has, I like and hate it at the same time. It can draw a ton of cards but the speed and mana cost to do so is huge. Up to you to use it or not but I find the investment is usually worth it.
- Apart from the commander the deck is full of activated abilities, planeswalkers, artifacts and lands. Very versatile card and another one of the strongest cards in the deck.
- It is only good if you have enough shuffle effects to draw new hands. If the deck doesn't have enough of them this can be an easy cut.
Instants
- Red's catch-all instant, it hits anything any everything. This hits all the permanents red struggles with and gives you instant speed interaction with all permanents. It almost always reveals something less terrifying when used. If you are far behind you can roll the dice and try to get something good for yourself.
- Instant speed finisher that uses all your mana doubler's to good effect. In a pinch it can wipe almost the entire board or just remove one problematic permanent. The strongest finisher of choice for the deck as it comes out of nowhere to cleanly finish off players and creatures sometimes.
- The closest red has ever gotten to mass card draw that isn't a wheel effect. It can be used on end step to lead into a very explosive turn. It is more of a late game card in this deck, due to the high cmc of everything in the deck. A strong card I do not expect to ever cut for the sheer amount of card advantage it provides as well as options.
Sorceries
- A colourless board wipe that hits everything red struggles to deal with. It gets past indestructibility and hexproof. Basically a second Ugin in this deck. It rarely hits anything in this deck that matters as it is almost a colourless permanent deck so it usually is a one sided board wipe.
- The cheapest board wipe in red available. Not too much can be said on this card as it has cemented itself as a red staple in EDH. We do get the bonus of pro red already being used to save our creatures from Jaya that prevents this. As well as Stuffy Doll being a small combo with it as well as Repercussion.
- Early filtering that can be used later for additional "draw". An easy to pitch card to Jaya, or a way to get big artifacts in the bin for Goblin Welder to cheat out early.
- The only tutor in the deck, the catch on this one is you have to discard at random after the tutor. Be careful with what you keep in hand and how many are in hand when cast. This powerful of an effect can have its downsides. Sometimes it's correct to grab a card with flashback or an artifact you wish to return.
- Often this will be a double Recoup, which is perfectly fine. Sometimes you just need another shatter and a wheel. The deck has a low amount of spells so it uses this as a value play rather than a game winner as it usually is used.
- A cheap or expensive wheel effect depending when used. The most important part of it is that it doesn't give your opponents time to prepare for it. Wheel of Fate is not a card that is good for this deck. The wheel effects look to refuel you while interrupting your opponent.
- A way to refill your board after it as been inevitably Vandalblasted. Another value based card that isn't meant to win the game on the spot as it usually does. The tricky part of this one is when to use it, you don't only get the effect so try to manipulate graves or set it up to give you the most amount of value among all players.
- Mass artifact removal that doesn't hurt you. The trick to this one, is to fire a few extra shots at the control players artifacts if possible. Each replicate copy counts as a new spell on the stack so it has an almost uncounterable clause to it if you really want.
- Another mass removal for artifacts that doesn't hit you. Unlike shattering spree when cast from the grave, it is only singular removal. That's just how overload works as it isn't cast from hand.
- Red's signature wheel effect, a cheap way to interrupt your opponents plans out of nowhere while giving you plenty of new cards. Sometimes you use it for new cards only, sometimes you use it to get the person with 20 cards in hand down to your level.
Enchantments
- Similar to Magus of the Moon, only much harder to remove. This is meant to punish decks with a greedier manabase than you. It will often be removed if played very early, however that's fine. It helps you stabilize often and eventually your useful nonbasics get unlocked. In a more casual setting just discard it to Jaya as it can ruin the game for some newer players. A necessary evil in this deck.
- This is why you have Akroma's memorial and all the pro red cards. It will win you the game most of the time when played. It makes each creature Jaya hits, hit the opponent as well. Purely there for mass damage and a game finisher.
Planeswalkers
- One of the cards that gets questioned the most. It is basically a 6 mana mini wheel with high loyalty. It interrupts other players and lets you draw a new hand. The ult on it isnt great and the plus is sometimes used as removal. Not too often though. I would like it a bit more if I had one more Phoenix but it does enough as a wheel alone.
- Self wheel plus card draw, win con, and board wipe all put into one card. This is one of the better planeswalkers in the deck for utility alone.
- A powerful card that is often at the helm of his own deck. However, we are a mix of burn plus artifacts. He fills the roles of a single artifact exchange often. If he lives he keeps a high loyalty and filters your draws.
- Almost always a single removal spell for anything. That's usually enough, but with Rings of Brighthearth it can be more which is one of the reasons it is played over other removal. If you work with others to protect it and keep your word, you can sometimes remove two things. If he ever is alone on a board he has a huge loyalty to get through.
- A planeswalker that wipes the board then threatens to close out a game. If you have ever played against Ugin, you know how back breaking he can be for some decks. The bonus is that he doesn't hit anything of yours you really care about.
Lands
Arid Mesa
,Bloodstained Mire,Scalding Tarn,Wooded Foothills
- Fetchlands so we can shuffle for Top and Scroll Rack. They work nicely with Crucible and Rings of Brighthearth to get more lands drops and find 2 lands at once. Finally they trigger Valakut on your opponents turn for extra value and removal whenever.
- A simple re-buy of any artifact, usually crabs back crucible for extra value.
- The small amount of lifegain adds up sometimes, but most importantly it can start a tutor chain with crucible of worlds.
- It can act as a way to get Jaya through Edict effect, chump block, provide bodies to hold a sword or with enough Gauntlets make small guys to attack with. The card has proven very versatile and useful at all times.
Myriad Landscape,Terrain Generator,Thawing Glaciers
-The slow ramp lands or lands that let us always hit land drops. Similar to the fetches, they also let us trigger valakut on opponents turns to give us instant speed interaction. Myriad and Rings ramps you a ton as well.
Strip Mine,Tectonic Edge,Wasteland
- Non-Basic Land removal. Every deck should run some number of these, with crucible we have a highish count to use them multiple times.
Thespian's Stage,Vesuva,Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
- Clone lands and our land based win-con, often people will let this go unchecked before they realize how huge it is in your deck. You aren't looking to combo with them, just overwhelm your opponents with damage, removal and value.
- I like to have 20 mountains at all times to keep Valakut online and it seems like the right amount. The wastes is to cast Kozilek as the deck has a number of basic land tutors and only usually struggles to get the second colourless. Adding the single Wastes has really helped improve casting him on curve.
Work in Progress below - To be added, wincons, game plan, categorize cards. Card considerations that have been tried and cut. (Will add the explanations I have in the comments already that people have asked about here.) Other versions of the deck.
Why Play The Deck
Commander Choice
Play-style
Mulligans
Mid Game
End Game
Omitted Card Choices
Cards That Didn't Make the Cut
- I ran him for a while as my group is a bit slower and more value oriented he was a redundant draw power and win-con. He got cut for the more efficient Ancient Stone Idol to beat down and protect my life total. Just was too slow and devastating when stolen and the card draw wasn't that needed.
Other Commanders
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| Date added | 7 years |
| Last updated | 5 years |
| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 25 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 3.92 |
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