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Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Other creatures you control have haste. {2}{R}: You may put a red creature card or an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
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“Cheat haste creatures onto the battlefield repeatedly and sacrifice them for value.”
Aggro
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Sacrifice, Ramp
Strategy
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded is a haste enabler and creature cheater rolled into one aggressive package. Your core gameplan is to fill your hand with cheap red creatures and artifact creatures, then use Purphoros's activated ability to cheat them into play for free, swinging in immediately thanks to haste. You're looking to deal damage quickly while generating value from temporary creatures—things that benefit from being sacrificed or dying work especially well. The deck wants to be tempo-focused: play threats, abuse the cheap animation ability repeatedly, and close out games before opponents stabilize.
Your mana acceleration should focus on red rituals and artifact ramp to power out both Purphoros and the creatures you'll be cheating in. Cards that reward entering-the-battlefield effects (impact tremors, warstorm surge) turn your creature spam into raw damage. You can also lean into sacrifice synergies with cards that trigger on creature death, turning the forced sacrifice into an upside rather than a drawback. The deck rewards playing a high density of playable red creatures and artifact creatures, so aggressive creatures and utility artifacts that happen to be creatures form your core shell.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Use budget red creatures like Goblin Rabblemaster and Mogg War Marshal instead of expensive Fiends; swap Skullclamp and Ashnod's Altar copies with Viscera Seer and Cartel Aristocrat.
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