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The External Destruction Engine

Commander / EDH Aggro Burn Combo Goblins Mono-Red Tokens

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My personal Purphoros deck, that I've built up slowly for years and has grown from a budget brew to a vicious killing machine. Here's how it works.

The Ultra-Secret Way This Deck Wins Show

Pretty much every EDH deck needs ramp and this deck is no exception, even though it only runs 32 lands due to a low mana curve. Being in mono-red, this deck doesn't have the best selection. That said, it does have access to artifact ramp like Sol Ring , Coldsteel Heart , Fire Diamond , Iron Myr , and Wayfarer's Bauble , as well as rituals Desperate Ritual , Pyretic Ritual , and Seething Song for getting Purphoros out early. It also runs certain "ramp" pieces in the form of Brightstone Ritual , Ashnod's Altar , Skirk Prospector , Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Mana Geyser to provide a jolt of mana to power out a brutal alpha strike on all opponents simultaneously.
Unlike ramp, tutors are not necessary for an EDH deck to function, but this deck nonetheless has a few. Goblin Matron and Moggcatcher find critical Goblins for the task at hand, while Goblin Recruiter lets us set up a devastating combo for oodles of damage.
This deck produces lots of tokens to fuel Purphoros' damage engine. Beetleback Chief , Siege-Gang Commander , Krenko, Mob Boss , Goblin Goliath , Goblin Warrens , Krenko's Command , Dragon Fodder , Hordeling Outburst , Kher Keep , Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs , Mogg Infestation , and Loyal Apprentice all ensure this deck can deal more than one damaging ETB trigger with a single card.
This deck deals damage quickly enough with the stuff we've looked at already, right? Wrong. Never enough damage. Use Quest for Pure Flame , Goblin Goliath , and Panharmonicon to double up on your triggers, and Norin the Wary is an absolute plague that causes Purphoros to zap the opposition on virtually every upkeep. Price of Progress is a vicious slug across the face of anyone running a complex manabase. Fanatic of Mogis does a boatload of damage when he enters, and since he's a Shaman, you can Champion him with Lightning Crafter , potentially allowing more than one Fanatic ETB. Tunneling Geopede turns landfall triggers into incremental damage, and Impact Tremors is a mini Purphoros which is very welcome. Lastly and perhaps most dramatically we have Chandra's Spitfire . In a four-player game, this thing gets +9/+0 for EACH Purphoros trigger, so for example if we drop say Hordeling Outburst then it will get +27/+0. This thing comes in as a massive haymaker and some people may not expect it, I know when I first used it my opponents were like "Wait what's that card?"
I'm a fan of the Commander's Quarters YouTube channel (if you're looking for great budget EDH deck lists I highly suggest you check Mitch's channel out). And following his lead, I'm nominating a Golden Pig, the number 1 card out of the 99. That card is Skirk Fire Marshal . This guy can be found by any of my tutors, and is a perfect finisher. This deck kicks out a lot of Goblin tokens, and when this guy hits play you can usually activate him twice, which should at least force a draw, but since you've been slapping damage all over the place with Purphoros, 10 or 20 damage to everyone will usually put everyone else down while leaving you barely alive. And if it's a draw, great! That means the other guys didn't win!

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Date added 4 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

25 - 0 Rares

22 - 2 Uncommons

21 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.79
Tokens Copy Clone, Dwarf 1/1 R, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Goblin 1/1 R, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Myr 1/1 C, Ogre 3/3 R, Thopter 1/1 C
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