Birgi cEDH Storm

Commander / EDH* Artifact Mono-Red Storm

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Ramp (22)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Treasonous Ogre

Cantrips (8)

• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Crash Through
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Overmaster
• 1x Warlord's Fury

Recursion (4)

• 1x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Underworld Breach

Lands (25)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dwarven Ruins
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sandstone Needle
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 10x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Card Advantage/Selection (12)

• 1x Act on Impulse
• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Flamekin Harbinger
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Kobolds (4)

• 1x Crimson Kobolds
• 1x Crookshank Kobolds
• 1x Kobolds of Kher Keep
• 1x Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh

Commander (1)

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Combo Pieces/Win Cons (14)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Grinning Ignus
• 1x Krark, the Thumbless
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Twinflame

Protection (6)

• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fork
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast

Removal (4)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Thunderclap

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Sideboard

Cantrips (3)

• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Urza's Bauble

Removal (3)

• 1x Crash
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Mogg Salvage

Card Advantage/Selection (3)

• 1x Light Up the Stage
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Winds of Change

Protection (2)

• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

Other (3)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Jeweled Amulet
• 1x Magus of the Moon

Recursion (2)

• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Finale of Promise

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This is a cEdh storm build of Birgi. We aim to get a bunch of mana, draw cards and get to an infinite combo.

The deck features the normal mana rock staples of cEDH, as well as Ruby Medallion and Helm of Awakening to reduce the cost of our spells. Rituals such as Seething Song are great in this deck, as Birgi makes them net one more mana each time. We run 4 of the 0 mana kobolds as they add storm and add us mana with Birgi out. They also can be used with Springleaf Drum to generate mana or Skullclamp for extra cards. Runaway Steam-Kin is a great ramp card and storm enabler in this deck, as we will be casting many red spells.

Treasonous Ogre can add mana for life and can combo with Aetherflux Reservoir if we have enough velocity. Any 2 0 mana creatures can generate infinite mana with Cloudstone Curio out. Dockside also works with this. Grinning Ignus also combos with Birgi, and can get infinite storm for Grapeshot . I also have the classic Twinflame + Dualcaster Mage combo in this deck, as the pieces are fine on their own. Underworld Breach also has a bunch of combos. It with Burning Inquiry and Birgi can dig through the entire deck, as well as with Lion's Eye Diamond and Wheel of Fortune . Another way to dig through the deck is with Mystic Forge , Sensei's Divining Top and Birgi or Helm of Awakening . Krark, the Thumbless also provides a sort of bad luck combo with any 1 mana cantrips.

There are several ways of digging for these combos. Gamble is obviously the best tutor, as it can grab any card, but Imperial Recruiter and Flamekin Harbringer are also fine as they can crab some combo pieces. Goblin Engineer also tutors for artifacts to graveyard, and can recur one with less than 3 cmc. Inventors' Fair is great as it is a tutor on a land.

For card advantage and to find these combos, we run a couple of wheels, as well as cards like Bedlam Reveler that can also wheel. Memory Jar is great with Goblin Welder . Skullclamp was mentioned previously, and many cards like Chromatic Star cantrip. Jeska's Will is really powerful, as it gives mana and extra cards. Act on Impulse is a powered down version of Jeska's Will, and Commune with Lava has a similar effect. Dire Fleet Daredevil can cast an opponents card draw spell or other spell, and Daretti, Scrap Savant and red staple Faithless Looting provides card filtering and artifact recursion. Other forms of recursion include Past in Flames , one of the best cards in the deck, as it allows you to double each ritual and spell. Mizzix's Mastery is also similar and Underworld Breach is great. Bonus Round also is a doubler, but doubles our opponents spells as well.

In terms of protection, Blood Moon is probably our best card, as it can punish greedy manabases and impact us very little. Lightning Greaves makes it hard for our opponents to remove Birgi, and also can give haste to a Goblin Welder . Deflecting Swat is also a free redirect with Birgi out. Fork and Reiterate are mostly there for to counter counterspells, and Dualcaster Mage can also do that. Reiterate can also get infinite storm with Seething Song and Birgi. The staple Pyroblast and Red Elemental Blast are also there.

For removal, Thunderclap can kill creatures, Shattering Spree can destroy artifacts, and Chaos Warp can remove all problematic permanents.

The rest of the nonland cards are cantrips like Overmaster that can be cast without losing any mana with Birgi on the battlefield or rituals like Desperate Ritual .

In terms of lands, Ancient Tomb , City of Traitors , Crystal Vein , Dwarven Ruins and Sandstone Needle can all sac or tap for 2 mana, while Gemstone Caverns can come out a turn early. Great Furnace is there for artifact synergies, and Buried Ruin can recur artifacts. Inventors' Fair was mentioned as a tutor. Shatterskull Smashing   has little cost and can be removal, and the fetchlands are there for minor deck thinning, as it really sucks to draw lands when going off.

Suggestions welcome! I am curious on your thoughts about the cards in the sideboard.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 1 Mythic Rares 42 - 6 Rares 17 - 7 Uncommons 22 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.93
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Treasure