No Combo Kiki-Jiki

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Mono-Red

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Creature (28)

• 1x Agate Instigator
• 1x Alpine Guide
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Dauntless Scrapbot
• 1x Fanatic of Mogis
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Fiendish Duo
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Sunset Strikemaster
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Triplicate Titan
• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Twinflame Tyrant
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Instant (3)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Artifact (16)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sting, the Glinting Dagger
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x The One RingGC
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x GambleGC
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Jeska's WillGC
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Reckless Handling
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Koth, Fire of Resistance
• 1x Koth of the Hammer
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 26x Mountain
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urza's Cave
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Vesuva

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Determined Iteration
• 1x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Sneak Attack

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Sideboard

Creature (17)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Geode Rager
• 1x Goblin Goliath
• 1x Marvin, Murderous Mimic
• 1x Mogg War Marshal
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Sabotender
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Spitfire Lagac
• 1x Sunspine Lynx
• 1x Terror of Mount Velus
• 1x Thermopod
• 1x Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Walking Atlas
• 1x Witty Roastmaster

Artifact (8)

• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Sceptre of Eternal Glory
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Devastating Onslaught
• 1x Insult / Injury
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bitter Reunion
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Valakut Exploration

Land (4)

• 1x Abstergo Entertainment
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Scavenger Grounds

Instant (1)

• 1x Skullcrack

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Maybeboard

Creature (17)

• 1x Ancient Stone Idol
• 1x Angrath's Marauders
• 1x Burning Sun's Avatar
• 1x Canoptek Wraith
• 1x Chancellor of the Forge
• 1x Emrakul's Hatcher
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Phyrexian Triniform
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stingscourger
• 1x Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Shadowspear

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Fiery Emancipation
• 1x Underworld BreachGC
• 1x Warstorm Surge

Sorcery (8)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Banefire
• 1x Devil's Play
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Sudden Demise
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Instant (4)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Fork
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Reverberate

Land (3)

• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

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Welcome to my No Combo Kiki-Jiki list!

Kiki-Jiki is a very fun commander, and the point of this deck is to maximize use of his ability without outright winning off infinites. There are a ton of cards that go infinite with Kiki-Jiki, even with the mono red limitation (namely Zealous Conscripts, Port Razer, Coercive Recruiter, and Combat Celebrant) and we will not being using any of them. Some concessions have been made in deck building to cut accidental infinites where they appear, such as Underworld BreachGC, which went semi-infinite with Wheel of Fortune and Jeska's Will.

So, in general, what is our gameplan? Set up early and ramp if we can. Cards like Solemn Simulacrum, Alpine Guide, and Burnished Hart are very important to get ASAP, Solemn being the best of these and there being multiple tutors to get pieces such as Imperial Recruiter, Gamble, and Reckless Handling. Mana rocks on the first few turns can be nice, but without drawing hand smoothing such as Faithless Looting we really have to make do with whatever we get. Ideally we get lots of lands into play, because that ties into our main win condition, which is Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle. While this deck has tons of haymakers to copy that can win the game on their own with the commander and some support, Valakut has proven both consistent and difficult to interact with. Copying Valakut with Vesuva and/or Thespian's stage with the possible addition of damage doublers that can ALSO be copied with Kiki-Jiki can deal absolutely absurd amounts of damage.

Many combinations, while not infinite, can win the game on the spot. Myr Battlespere + Purphoros for example, is 10 damage per Kiki activation, with the addition of damage doublers and/or way to activate Kiki multiple times usually spelling death for the table. Myr Battlesphere then attacking can finish anyone off who can live through 20-40 direct Purproros damage.

There are several cards that put in crazy amounts work in this deck I feel like need a special explanation. Goblin Bombardment is always nice to have. It can pick off small creatures with very little investment, give us a back up plan if our board is wiped or stolen, and do chip damage or outright kill people when life totals start getting low. Sundial of the Infinite is sneakily the best card in the deck, because with Kiki-Jiki's delayed trigger causing us to sacrifice the tokens, we can end the turn when the trigger goes on the stack on end-step and keep the copies. Also works with Sneak Attack and Determined Iteration. Speaking of which, Sneak Attack has both a lot of utility being able to be used on opponent's turns, but with the dies and enters abilities in this deck being so strong plus the addition of Kiki-Jiki, the mana saved is totally worth it, even if we lose the creature, not that even happens every time when we have cards like Sundial and Goblin Welder. Also worthy of note is Rings of Brighthearth; it's obviously in here mainly to copy Kiki-Jiki's ability, but it also has a lot of sneaky synergy with other cards, such as planeswalkers (I have a dream to someday copy Koth, Fire of Resistance's emblem) The One Ring, Feldon, Burnished Hart etc. A few updates ago I cut all the mana doubling cards (Caged Sun, etc.) from the deck and now run Mana Geyser, and that card is usually enough to pull into a dominant position right away, especially when coupled with card advantage like Wheel of Fortune or Jeska's Will. Tibalt's Trickery is in here mainly to protect against boardwipes, but it can also be useful to stop a potentially game winning spell like Craterhoof.

The deck being mono-red unfortunately makes it wildly inconsistent. Sometimes the deck doesn't have anything up and running until turn 6 or 7, sometimes we have Kiki-Jiki AND something to copy by turn 3 or 4, and sometimes we can dump 40+ damage and kill someone out of nowhere on turn 5.

Some notable wins in the last year include someone milling my whole deck by repeatedly wheeling only for the last hand I drew into to be godly and killing him with Sneak Attack by doing over 120 damage(exile my own graveyard off Canoptek, plus Purphoros and Terror of the Peaks, with the addition of Tibalt's Trickery counter back up), and in another game finishing someone off who had drawn 40 cards with Hunter's Insight by copying Magus of the wheel 8 times even though they had protection from everything.

While the deck wins with damage primarily, deciding what to copy for the most impact when we have multiple options can be a bit tricky. Direct damage is usually the best way to go, but if attacking is an option we'll take it. While the deck could lean harder into getting Valakut and ramping lands, I find the flexibility is actually more effective. Card avantage is very difficult to come by in this color, but we make do. With all the looting, as well as cards like Combustible Gearhulk, the deck is surprisingly good at filling it's grave, and even has a few payoffs(Crucible, Feldon, Goblin Welder, Canoptek). All in all, while the limitations hold it back some, it's still an extremely solid deck through years of tuning and some game-changers.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 3 Mythic Rares 35 - 21 Rares 17 - 5 Uncommons 7 - 9 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.62
Tokens	Agate Instigator 1/1 R, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Emblem Koth of the Hammer, Emblem Koth, Fire of Resistance, Goblin 1/1 R, Goblin Shaman, Golem 3/3 C w/ Flying, Golem 3/3 C w/ Trample, Golem 3/3 C w/ Vigilance, Insect 1/1 C w/ Flying, Lander, Myr 1/1 C, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	8-Deck Built-From-Scratch 3's and 4's, All Commander Deck I Actually Own IRL