Piru, the Volatile
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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
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Piru, the Volatile

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying, lifelink

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this unless you pay .

When this dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield), it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.

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awesomedude20 on Dihada's Harem of Heroic Hooligans

1 year ago

Mattio38 Hey, thanks for stopping by yourself haha!

I've played this a handful of times with my group, and it's always at LEAST been a major threat, with her ability to toss out huge threats at a moment's notice. Magda is genuinely an all-star lol, the ability to fetch Avacyn's Memorial out of the deck is insane. Especially considering you can swing Magda safely, since the fetched Memorial will make her indestructible lol. Allowing you to continue fetching big nasties (Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant, Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Oros, the Avenger, and Piru, the Volatile are all excellent targets, with Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge as prooobably your last choice) turn after turn. Luxior, Giada's Gift is another great choice.

But honestly? I usually hate infinite combos, so I usually try to avoid tossing those in as wincons, so this deck usually just wins by beating face better than anyone else. There's a good amount of fliers too, which are both great at protecting Dihada, as well as getting in to damage people, and any winning boards just... facilitate keeping your board around to continue doing that haha. The boardwipe creatures are especially good at keeping everyone else's board in check, since all of them deal with most go-wide strategies pretty immediately, as well as smaller utility creatures and whatnot, paired with lifelink to boot, it gets kinda funny.

A combo I do quite like is Dihada + Myrel, Shield of Argive + Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier.

Lets you target Agrus with Dihada's +2, then you pay the , which copies her +2 for every one of your legendary creatures, and with Myrel out, your opponents don't have too many common options to deal with your board since USUALLY your board is quite vulnerable from your upkeep to your main phase 1. But Myrel stops people from doing anything during that point, so you can basically keep your Dihada +2 going safely for your entire creaturebase, letting you swing relentlessly and gain a ton of life, all while keeping Dihada safe behind the fliers and big bodies etc. etc.

Also Primevals' Glorious Rebirth won me a game hilariously hard once. A Lazav player milled like 3/4s of my library. Got to my turn. Topdecked Primeval. Put basically every legendary card in my deck straight onto the field, lands included. Generally speaking, I prefer to let all 4 cards go to the grave with Dihada's -3, since the 4 treasures is REALLY strong, but if I ever mill Primeval, you bet I'm grabbing that lol.

As for your recommendations, yeah Blasphemous Act is kinda just never a bad idea lol. I might toss it in, but I find I've been able to get by using Piru, Oros, or Ashling in a similar way. The deck makes enough mana to make it functional haha, plus it leans more into the legendary tribal aspect, which I enjoy. Sheoldred is definitely a great include, I'm not really sure why I didn't include her other than maaaaybe being a massive hate magnet. I would argue that Rodolf is even better in the deck with a little extra legwork involved, but Rodolf, for some strange reason, doesn't attract as many bad intentions haha

Definitely not a bad idea though, fits into my theme of "keep my things on the board", if I ever find a card underperforming I might just swap it out for her.

markbeloit on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

Piru and Lorehold

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon Legend

Flying

Hideaway 6 (When this creature enters the battlefield, look at the top six cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

When Piru and Lorehold dies, if the exiled card is an instant or sorcery with mana value 6 or less, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you do, Piru and Lorehold deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to each creature your opponents control.

6/6


From Piru, the Volatile and Velomachus Lorehold.

Make a dragon.

FauxFaux on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Fun fact! Piru, the Volatile was actually the lover of Chromium, the Mutable. There were actually several other Elder Dragons native to Dominaria that have yet to be explored or really depicted in cards such as Marrevia, Ravus, Rubra, and Lividus. They are cousins of Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire!

Anyways, Lore aside, here's my interpretation of Marrevia!


Marrevia-Sal, the Despised

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice ~ unless you pay .

At the beginning of your endstep, you may pay X life. If you do, mill that many cards, then return a creature card from among cards milled this way to the battlefield. If it were to leave the battlefield, exile it.

7/7

"Slain before she had met her potential, as many of her siblings. Her skull now decorates a Human Hunters' home somewhere. Grieve later, my brother. For now, we strike back." - Nicol Bolas to Ugin


Wildcard folks!

TheOfficialCreator on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

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Create a new Elder dragon, along the lines of Piru, the Volatile.

Crow_Umbra on Clout Conquistadors

2 years ago

Thank you Andramalech! In my 4ish years playing EDH, Mardu has definitely grown to be my favorite three color combo. Sultai was my favorite for a bit, but I got kinda bored with it. My Mardu love started with my Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck, Awkward Eye Contact with Death (retired), which got recycled into Isshin earlier this year. I don't currently own this Shanid deck; this list is more a running concept if I did decide to pick it up. Some of the pieces from the new Necron WH40K precon also have me reconsidering Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter lol.

Alesha was a fun balancing act between aggro, control, and mobilizing a combo. I changed her theme up about 2-3 times over the 2 years that I had the deck running. I know I'll eventually revisit her, but I'm having too much fun with Isshin and honing it more. My play group seems to be coming around on proxies, so I might proxy up her pieces that are currently in Isshin. I might end up with 3 proxied Mardu decks at this rate lol.

My meta tends to lean aggro and go-wide, so that's more or less where my love for beat-face strats comes from. I still love combos when they can fit with a deck.

I think that Mardu has received a lot of love from WotC in the past few years in terms of design diversity. I mean:

NV_1980 on Cause Dihada Bad Day

2 years ago

SacredAtsira There might be ways to increase the speed of your deck a bit. Right now, 58% of your spells are CMC4 or more. The deck also has relatively few options to gain card-advantage. You have some tutors in here, but hardly any options for direct-draw. So my advice would be to get rid of expensive stuff that's not adding all that much (cards like Piru, the Volatile, Licia, Sanguine Tribune come to mind) and replacing these with some cheaper-to-cast stuff; preferably something that generates card draw.

RambIe on Random New Deck

2 years ago

I got Piru, the Volatile but im not sure were everyone is getting the two random cards so i used

https://scryfall.com/random?q=commander%3AWBR


and got Flamerush Rider & Surgical Extraction

ill have to think about this one

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