Solphim, Mayhem Dominus | Burn | Commander | EDH | Budget | Cut-Rate Commander | MTG

[@GrazzetMTG]

Hey folks! Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed the build, if you agree with my choices, what you would have included instead, and what commanders you want to see me cover from March of the Machine in future polls!

[@napalmbukakke]

Geistflame reservoir! And more sweepers like anger of the gods

[@benrichardson5662]

Useful tech tip for this deck and mono red in general: Liquimetal Torque is a mana rock at a typical rate, but it has synergy with spells like Smash to Smithereens. Red struggles to deal with enchantments, but it if the torque turns an enchantment into an artifact, you can blow them up with ease!

[@tomfirens1400]

And once again you manage to get me excited for a commander and playstyle that i would consider not my cup off tea. If i can spare some money in my budget i'll see if i can build this on

[@ratherdaft]

Oh I love Solphim! I drew him from my prerelease and have been itching to build a deck around him. One particularly fun combo my friend showed me (that really doesn't utilize Solphim, but is flavor fitting) is [All Will Be One] + ([The Red Terror] OR [Quest For Pure Flame] OR [War Elemental]). Nasty little infinite damage combo that I thought fit perfectly to theme and isn't especially easy to get out so other players at the table will get a chance to interact a bit!

[@barrysetser3909]

The image of a flaming wallet popped into my brain when looking at the upgrades here. I do like this one a lot; at first glance looks far better than a burn deck I've been working on. Am tempted to try it out

[@tneC0mment0r]

I love playing things that haven’t been seen in my playgroup meta! Most of the red in ours comes from dragons or odd mechanics that aren’t burn so this will be a surprise change up to whip out a fast and effective budget burn deck like this 👀

[@GrazzetMTG]

Fair enough! Its always fun to bring a new build to you playgroup to spice things up - I just hope that your playgroup can handle the heat this build brings with it!

[@thelostmaster13]

I happened to add in Staff of Domination and Nesting Grounds to help create more indestructible counters on Solphim and move them to certain artifacts and enchantments for added security

[@duckyleehazards7737]

Wow amazing deck as always. Never thought about playing a burn deck in commander. I'll have to give this deck a try.

[@alexwright1251]

Im currently running this and having a lot of fun with it. Id reccomend Harsh Mentor and Immolation Shaman, both punish your opponents for trying to use their abilities & in my case, are prime bait for removal & counterspells so you can drop your bombs without as much worry later on. Sardian avenger is also a good choice depending on what your group often plays, will make treasure spammers cry.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Harsh Mentor and Immolation Shaman are both solid sources of passive burn to be sure, but their burn potential will vary depending on the matchups, which personally makes me less keen on running them, but if you know your playgroup has lots of non-mana activated abilities then go for it! And Sardian Avenger pairs nicely with Pain Distributor to punish opponents for using treasure (and to a lesser extent, other types of self sacing tokens) - so it can certainly get good mileage against the appropriate matchups. Good suggestions!

[@el_fritter]

Amazing dech tech! Thanks so much.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you like it!

[@Magnusovich]

Certainly explosive, a fitting note to end ONE on. Looking forward to the start of the MOM marathon as well, there are some really cool commanders in that set. Would you consider doing deck techs on some of the Multiverse legends cards? Might be a cool opportunity to work on some older commanders.

[@GrazzetMTG]

I can't wait to get started on MOM builds too - theres a lot a juicy commanders there that I just can't wait to build around! Regarding Multiverse Legends - I may consider doing some, or maybe throwing 1 in as alternative option to the weekly polls... We'll just have to see what happens.

[@revenantjb575]

Regarding the multiverse legends I would love to see you build a Juri, Master of the Revue deck 👀

[@treylearns634]

Chandra’s hope beacon, delayed blast fireball and Solphim

[@TheRaptorJohnny]

This was one of the ones I was excitedly waiting for! The budget gets stretched a little only because the version of Solphim I pulled was the Oil Slick variant. ❤ Was Into the Fire or Nahiri's War crafting ever in consideration?

[@TheRaptorJohnny]

Great video otherwise! Now just in the obligatory Praetor waiting room lol.

[@mikeheximer7638]

Love the burn I am going to include chain lightning in my build as well as stuffy doll and the original jaya Ballard I vote for the hydra I would be interested to see kroxa and kunoros as a deck build

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad to hear you enjoy it! Chain Lightning is a solid addition as another Lightning Bolt if the target or its owner doesn't have access to red mana, Stuff Doll is a decent sourced of damage redirection and another indestructible blocker for us to make use of, and Jaya Ballard, Task Mage lets us turn any "dead" cards in our hand into burn (eventually a wipe), which is nice to have access too. It looks like Polukranos is currently in second place, so we'll have to see if he can beat Ayara in the polls! And Kroxa and Kunoros may get a second chance at the polls a little bit later down the line, so stay tuned!

[@jasonrustmann7535]

This looks super fun. I have a Torbran deck that i might redo for this, it's mostly repeating was to do 1 damage, where as this would be more spell slinger style, could be fun to drop a big 'ol fireball for the win lol Only thing though, Heartless taps to cut ALL players life totals in half, meaning we could end everyone all at once. A real boss in this deck, fortunately the commander just doubles the damage our opponents take, otherwise he's just a table flip on a card lol

[@GhostCastle7]

I turned her into a dragons approach deck, mostly ignoring the dragon fetching part. Add in the thruming stone. Talk about a good time, for me at least lol

[@Njzeo]

Game review. This deck is amazing. Once players see the multiple damage outputs and then casting one burn spell. My playgroup didn’t even let me do that math and just scooped.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad to hear its been performing well for you!

[@AdamKaiser1]

Wurmcoil Engine at Home shall be a very lovely deck tech. I also...really enjoy the World Eater's appearances...so I got to "get a-head" and vote for the Reborn.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Polukranos appreciated the vote - especially since he broke out of the underworld (again) just to participate in this poll!

[@cathanbreen5294]

I absolutely love this deck and had a build of my own haha. Though i like a lot of your ideas and will do some modifications accordingly. The one thing I'd like to put out there is Rionya Fire Dancer. With her and fanatic of mogis... its so gross

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you enjoyed it! Rionya, Fire Dancer is certainly a potent way for us to get extra copies of our spell payoffs into play for the turn - though I think it would slightly better in a lower to the ground spell slinger / cantrip build to get even more copies.

[@thespine309]

Heartless Hidetsugu hits each player. With Solphim out, that’s a good chance to just kill everybody if you can untap with it or give it haste

[@nicholaszaragoza6742]

Yeah, that pretty much kills the whole table I was wondering about that.

[@thespine309]

@@nicholaszaragoza6742 yah. i don’t love instant kills so idk if i’d include it, but honestly if the whole table takes a turn without being able to kill it that’s on them lol

[@jasonrustmann7535]

@@thespine309 sometimes you gotta have a way to just win, plenty of decks out there will cripple your ability to do anything else, or just gain so much life you have no other way to win, plus it's one card in 99, the odds of drawing it in multiple games back to back in a color with zero tutors, ain't great, plus like you said, in addition to his mana cost, you usually got three other players that should be able to deal with him before ge pops off lol

[@thespine309]

@@jasonrustmann7535 i get it, it’s just not a card i personally want to run

[@Galchoo1]

*insert Flame Hyenard reference* That said, glad to see this build is as fun as I expected! Guess Obosh and that one Rakdos archer I can't remember the name of have quite the formidable competition... amazing deck as always! Holy shit, is Fiery Emancipation pricy though... like the deck from the giveaway. Hopefully the winner contacts you soon before you reroll! As for my vote, well... only one of the three is A LITERAL GOD TURNED INTO A TERMINATOR VERSION OF HIMSELF, which was a reveal insane enough to make me do a literal spittake upon seeing him spoiled. And with a Blue added to his colour identity to make it even MORE absurd, no less! Day 631 of waiting for the face reveal- hold up, Ravagan? Looks like someone has missed a typo on the script... how often does that happen? Not complaining, to be clear, it was a sweet surprise.

[@GrazzetMTG]

"BURN TO GROUND! BURN TO THE GROUND! BURN TO THE GROUND!" - Flame Hyenard - Mega Man X7 - Truly wise words to live by. And glad to hear you enjoyed the build as usual! Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse is indeed both cool looking and a cool build around - which I would personally lean towards a wheel focused build seeing as his backface can make our spells insanely cheap / free after just 1. And yeah, the typo was my bad - with 13ish pages of script a week, something are bound to get through the cracks - though in my defense, I can't even afford to put Ragavan in any of my builds, so I can't be expected to remember his name😜 .

[@johnsato6109]

finally! been waiting for the Solphim built 🎉 will have to try this one...when you tried the deck, did the group tsrget you immediately?😅

[@GrazzetMTG]

Not in my experience, but your mileage may vary depending on how aggressive your playgroup is - but considering that we can easily make our commander indestructible - being targeted shouldn't be too much of an issue with a highly resilient 5/4 blocker at our disposal!

[@benrichardson5662]

A good upgrade would be Price of Glory. It's not burn but it puts a VERY heavy tax on anyone trying to play shenanigans outside of their own turn.

[@NateSix2Six]

What do you think about Mizzix's mastery? Is there a spot for it in the deck and what would you sawp out if so. If not why not?

[@rjams8953]

Sweet build. Not mentioning Runaway Steam-kin, Birgi, or the new Urabrask seems like a bit of an oversight, but I guess they kinda push the deck in a different direction. Either way, burn it down!

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you enjoyed it! Personally, I feel that Runaway Steam-kin and Birgi would be better in the 99 of a build WITH Urabrask at the helm, since he's a burn commander thats more concerned about casting lots of spells rather than burn spells (making him more of a spell slinger / cantrip commander in my opinion) which in turn proc our spell payoffs (Guttersnipe, Firebrand Archer, Electrostatic Field, etc), which is where the burn would come from for this build.

[@rjams8953]

@@GrazzetMTG makes sense. It would certainly be a different style deck. Looking forward to the next couple builds!

[@crovax1375]

I would play Hostility in this deck. Imagine having our commander, Hostility, and another damage multiplier(x2) in play and casting Flame Rift. You would get 64 3/1 elemental tokens that sticks around!

[@GrazzetMTG]

Fair point - though our opponents won't likely survive that turn once our hasty 3/1's crack in anyway! Good suggestion and I may just have to try it out myself!

[@Ivad]

Oof... Definitely one of the strongest commanders that you've built around so far. This is the commander you break out when you can't afford a long game 😅

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you think so! With us throwing around so much AOE burn that deals double the damage (at least), this is quite a nice commander if you need have quick games!

[@joachimschlachter7097]

what about vandal blast, jeska's will, Delayed Blast Fireball and Demon Bolt? wouldn't they be good in the deck instead of the exile cards for example? what do you think

[@hughesn13]

Would it be a good idea to add urabrask, if so what would be a good swap?

[@GrazzetMTG]

I think the new Urabrask would be a better fit in a more cantrip / spell slinger focused build, since this build doesn't have enough cheap spells allow us to transform him reliably.

[@doritodust0076]

Haven't even finished the video and I'm faced with my old enemy: Algebra

[@GrazzetMTG]

And here you thought that Algebra would never have any real world applications!

[@jasonrustmann7535]

Pfft math is for blockers and blue players. Just keep burning until you know there's no way they're still alive! MUWAHAHAHA!

[@jeremiahjones9940]

Love it. More mono red❤

[@GrazzetMTG]

I'll see what I can do!

[@Florian-j2g]

This deck is insanely strong i am doing SO much damage! Only problem is i ramped so hard everybody starts targeting me 😅 AND TWICE I GOT HIT BY A DARKSTEEL MUTATION ON MY COMMANDER PLS DADDY GRAZET HOW DOES ONE COUNTER THIS

[@GrazzetMTG]

Okay, so historically mono red has issues dealing with enchantments but we do have a handful of work around's. 1stly, we can of course just Chaos Warp it away (which is already in the deck). 2ndly, we can look at replacing Mind Stone with Liquimetal Torque, which still ramps us and we can alternatively use to turn enchantments into artifacts - allowing our artifact removal spells (like Abrade & Smash to Smithereens) to be to remove them as well. Liquimetal Coating can be use for the same interaction but only does this (no ramp) so it may be overkill to run it unless you constantly running into enchantments. Hope that helps!

[@hulud]

I'm confused: If I have Solphim and Torbran an cast Lightning Bolt, why on earth would my opponent have the option of applying it 3x2+2? Torbran straight up says, deals that much plus 2 INSTEAD, so there is no 3 damage. It's just 5x2.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Good question. The exact rule is here: 419.9a If two or more replacement or prevention effects are attempting to modify the way an event affects an object or player, the affected object’s controller (or its owner if it has no controller) or the affected player chooses one to apply. Then the other effect applies if it is still appropriate. In short, due to damage modifier being replacement effects and the target being either an opponents creature or our opponents themselves, they get to choose which one applies first.

[@hulud]

@@GrazzetMTG Well, it seems I've been playing wrong. Wasn't even aware that the opponent gets to choose how they're applied. That kinda pisses me off because I really don't agree with it. Thank you for responding.

[@purple8990]

I'm thinking dragons approach deck

[@odditiescollector4540]

the new urabrask seems like he'd go well in this deck and swapped with solphim to play differently with the same selection of cards, would that be the case? is so what would you have taken out for him

[@GrazzetMTG]

While Urabrask is a burn themed commander, he's more of a spell slinger / cantrip commander in my opinion than a traditional burn commander - since he wants us to cast spells back to back to transform him to his saga side AND gives us mana and damage as we do so - essentially making our 1 mana cantrips free - which pair nicely with spell payoffs like Guttersnipe top deal lots of damage to our opponents, and that the saga's last chapter lets us cast again to re-proc all our spell payoffs a second time. Hope that helps!

[@odditiescollector4540]

@@GrazzetMTG thanks for the feedback, am i right in understanding that what you are saying is that while i could put urabrask into solphim it wouldnt be advised as the 2 go about winning the game in a different way despite it being the same type of winning the game?

[@SevrianU]

Just a quick note, Hidetsugu deals damage to Each Player, even to its controller.

[@GrazzetMTG]

True - though Solphim's damage doubling only applies to damage our opponents (and their permanents) take - meaning we only lose half our life (rounded down) and everyone else either takes all their life in damage (of their life is an even number) or are reduced to 1 (if its an odd number).

[@SevrianU]

@@GrazzetMTG Indeed. But it is so explosive that it kind makes everything else meaningless. Don't get me wrong, i love the card, just pointing that Hidetsugu powerlevel is wayyy above the rest of the deck X.X

[@lockecole3726]

2:05-2:15 That's one of those things that just seems so unintuitive the first time you hear about it, but I guess it's just another quirk of MTG.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Yeah, it is a bit weird how that works. You would think its the effects owner that gets to choose, but it is indeed the owner of the permanent or the player that the effect targets per the rules as written. Why WotC decided to make it like this, I have no idea.

[@PaintflowException]

Where's the rule written that let's opponent choose the order of stacked triggers?

[@GrazzetMTG]

Here is the exact ruling on that - 419.9a. If two or more replacement or prevention effects are attempting to modify the way an event affects an object or player, the affected object's controller (or its owner if it has no controller) or the affected player chooses one to apply. If any of those effects are self-replacement effects (see rule 419.6d), one of them must be chosen. If not, but any of those effects would modify under whose control an object would come into play, one of them must be chosen. Otherwise, any of the applicable effects may be chosen. Once the chosen effect has been applied, this process is repeated (taking into account only replacement or prevention effects that would now be applicable) until there are no more left to apply. If two or more players have to make these choices at the same time, choices are made in APNAP order (see rule 103.4). Hope that helps!

[@eliasdunkel767]

Hey no jeskas will?

[@GrazzetMTG]

Jeska's Will is a bit too pricey to be included in the base build, but it would make a superb upgrade (replacing Light Up the Stage for example). I simply didn't include it in the upgrades since, honestly, its probably an auto-include in almost every red deck considering just how powerful it is.

[@eliasdunkel767]

@@GrazzetMTG thoghts on Keeper of Secrets?

[@supersalty_9459]

BURN THEM ALL 0.0 FIRE

[@GrazzetMTG]

That is indeed the right mindset to play this deck!

[@SLVYER1]

Whenever YTers make burn videos they get praise whenever anyone plays them they get scorn. I just want a deck that does something that I'm allowed to play that a crybaby won't cry at.