Hellkite Tyrant

Creature — Dragon

Flying, trample

Whenever this deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Combos

• Blade of Selves + Hellkite Tyrant

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

YamaKasin on Commander for a 3 player …

1 month ago

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-08-26-wulfgar/?cb=1787901874

Apart from obviously swinging with big creatures, it's got a subtheme of generating Treasures to ramp or win with Hellkite Tyrant. Also a little bit of goading, forcing opponents to block/attack, as well as a bit of fun randomness with Chaos Warp, Hans Eriksson and Eureka. Let me know what you think!

I'm also now thinking about switching out Alela for Urza, Chief Artificer and create a typical artifact creatures deck for him. My reasoning is, it'll make Wulfgar a bit stronger, not having to deal with so many flyers, as well as making his wincon with Hellkite Tyrant more threatening, forcing the other two to cooperate without being too "out of nowhere" (beginning of the upkeep trigger + the need for haste). It'll also be easier and quicker for me to build and balance, I think. Would that work against Valagavoth and Wulfgar, you think?

TheoryCrafter on Commander for a 3 player …

1 month ago

I concur for Liliana's Contract for the Valgavoth Deck. If you're looking for Alt Win cards for each of the other two, My recommendations would be Mechanized Production & Mirrodin Besieged for Alela(token generation) and Hellkite Tyrant(due to treasure token generation) for Wulfgar.

If I were running a 3 way pod, one of the Commanders I'd go for is Saskia the Unyielding and force my opponents to fight each other.

Happy Hunting!

atingtdm on Wheelmaster is Hot!

4 months ago

immerdusse Wheel Awesome!

Oh, Magda is the plan B because she could dodge both of graveyard hate and storm hate, then win with infinite Treasure tokens.

You see that Magda says whenever a Dwarf becomes tapped, she gives you one treasure. Treasures are artifacts; therefore, they can be tapped to pay the cost to untap other artifacts via Clock of Omens. If somehow you can make a dwarf also an artifact... then, you can tap the artifact dwarf and another artifact to untap that artifact dwarf again, which also makes you a new untapped treasure on the way to go. You are now left with yet another chance to activate the clock again, and again, so on.

The result is that you now have bujulion-tapped treasures. Which seems very useless, but aren't they? Because Magda's last ability doesn't require you to tap the treasures... Now you can fetch any dragon and artifact card to the battlefield.

Technically, Roaming Throne qualifies as a dwarf. (In case Plan A doesn't work out, Neheb wants it to be a warrior.) It also doubled Magda's trigger ability, which ends up making you two treasures. Now you have extra treasure to spare, that's infinite mana. That's why I still leave Skarrgan Hellkite, Realm-Scorcher Hellkite, or even Hellkite Tyrant in the primer maybe list.

Grinding Station is a different game. You are already making infinite treasure; now you can make them mill. When one treasure was born, the grind will follow.

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I should definitely include these in the primer, lol.

NV_1980 on Dragon Deez Nuts Across Yo Face... I'm sorry

8 months ago

Looks like a fun deck! Personally, I'd try to find a way to add Big Score and/or Unexpected Windfall into it. Would probably exchange Stormbreath Dragon for at least one of these, because it's ability is extremely expensive to use and not all that great.

On a related note, you only have five cards in this deck that provide with some extra card advantage (1 wheel and 4 that allow you to top-deck). That will make this deck relatively slow, especially when you're facing decks featuring blue. Some ideas on this front:

• Academy Manufactor: will create Clues whenever you create Treasure, which can be handy in a pinch when you need some more cards in your hand. And since you'll be generating plenty of treasure anyway ...
• Bonders' Enclave/Geier Reach Sanitarium/Mikokoro, Center of the Sea: some of these lands come with the disadvantage that others may draw too, but hey, when you're out of options anyway ...
• Idol of Oblivion: all you need to do is create a treasure, and then this allows you to draw!
• Seize the Spotlight: seems amazingly in-theme for this deck and is a win-win against any opponent.

Aside from the above, I was just wondering why Hellkite Tyrant is not in here. Also seems pretty on-theme for your deck. Anyways, it already looks cool as-is; these are just my two cents. Keep these nice builds coming.

TheoryCrafter on Feather, the Redeemed

9 months ago

Here are the cards I would recommend replacing:

Myth Realized -> Leonin Lightscribe: I wouldn't put MR in a deck unless it was a Saga deck where I can move lore counters with Nesting Grounds so I could retrigger the chapters. Between your Commander and numerous creatures to pump up other creatures, I don't think MR is necessary.

Rile -> Maximum Velocity: Rile is the kind of card you put in a deck where a high number of creatures have the enrage mechanic like Ranging Raptors. Not to mention casting Rile on Mirrorwing Dragon or Zada, Herdron Grinder at the worst time could cause you to boardwipe yourself. Maximum Velocity has the ability to be reused.

Storm Kiln Artist -> Anax and Cymede: A&C has the advantage of bulking up other creatures as well as itself. You may lose out on the treasure tokens, but unless your planning to add Hellkite Tyrant at a later date, your deck already has a pretty close to 50/50 on red and white Mana costs.

Knight with the White Orchid -> Chromatic Lantern: costs generic mana to and 1 less to cast.

Talisman of Conviction -> Thought Vessel: losing the colored mana, but gaining a backup plan for unlimited hand sizes in case someone hits you with Blood Moon or Harbinger of the Seas.

I hope this helps. Thank you for reading me out. If are interested in ideas not related to the maybe board let me know. Happy Hunting!

Venum on Jitterin' & Glitterin'

10 months ago

You might wanna add Knuckles the Echidna if you want another win-con with treasures, might as well add Hellkite Tyrant too.

ChurchOfJorts on YEEHAW: Treasure Boogaloo

1 year ago

2/11/25 Updates

Swaps

• Swamp for Witch's Cottage
• Boggart Trawler  ^Flip for Hellkite Tyrant
• Throes of Chaos for Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
• Exotic Orchard for Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• Izzet Chemister for Tor Wauki the Younger
• Geothermal Bog for Foreboding Ruins
• Urborg Volcano for Tainted Peak
• Valakut Exploration for Count on Luck
• Cinder Barrens for Command Beacon

Idoneity on Commander Story Circle

2 years ago

Yesternight I went to my LGS's free-play commander event. It had been a while and I was looking forward to it. In the second round with a lovely group, I played my Bladewing the Risen deck, an old and reliable favourite.

It was a slow start for us all; I did some discarding and then cast a Wheel of Fortune. Because I was against three green opponents, I was disappointed when the only dragon I drew was a Hellkite Tyrant. There were no artifacts as far as I could tell. But then I noticed something.

The wheel had drawn a foe into an Ygra, Eater of All. Everything was food and everything was dying, so it quickly became massive. But I had a beautiful Hellkite Tyrant, which was soon wearing Greaves, which had soon granted me control of all of their food creatures.

On a previous night with the same deck, an opponent had resolved a Possibility Storm, so I began casting Rummaging Goblins with the hope of hitting Utvara Hellkites.

Magic has innumerable interactions that each recontextualize the game-state, sometimes to the degree of utterly unforeseen terrain.

Do you have any stories of your deck doing something you had never designed it to do? Maybe it operated off a card you included for another purpose entirely, or maybe your opponent cast a Dream Halls and you popped off to new heights. Tell your tales!