Clive, Ifrit’s Dominant leads a mono-red Commander deck built around red devotion, explosive mana production, high-impact creatures, and repeated combat pressure. Clive provides both hand filtering and card replenishment on entry, then converts a developed red board into Ifrit, Warden of Inferno—a 9/9 Saga threat capable of fighting opposing creatures, producing a major burst of red mana, and eventually transforming back into Clive to restart the cycle.
The deck is structured to make that transformation meaningful rather than simply treating Clive as a large creature. Dense red permanents build devotion, ritual effects accelerate the deck into its upper curve, and copy and blink effects repeatedly extract value from creatures with strong enters-the-battlefield or attack triggers.
This build operates as a mono-red big-mana midrange deck with devotion and combat-combo elements. Early turns establish mana through Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Ruby Medallion, Hazoret’s Monument, Wayfarer’s Bauble, Glittering Stockpile, and smaller mana-producing creatures. From there, cards such as Seething Song, Geosurge, Mana Geyser, Neheb, the Eternal, and Ifrit itself create the explosive turns necessary to deploy multiple threats or activate Clive.
The upper end of the deck is deliberately filled with creatures that reward copying, granting haste, or receiving additional combat steps. Etali, Primal Storm, Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Combustible Gearhulk, Goldspan Dragon, Tectonic Giant, and Combat Celebrant each create substantial value beyond their printed bodies, giving the deck multiple ways to convert temporary mana advantages into lasting board pressure.
Clive rewards maintaining a substantial concentration of red mana symbols on the battlefield. Defiler of Instinct, Neheb, the Eternal, Drakuseth, Magus of the Moon, Gratuitous Violence, and other red permanents naturally increase devotion while advancing the deck's primary game plan.
Ruby Medallion and Hazoret’s Monument improve sequencing across multiple spells, while Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, Geosurge, Mana Geyser, Goldspan Dragon, and Neheb provide larger bursts of mana. Once Clive becomes Ifrit, its second chapter adds another significant infusion of red mana, allowing the deck to move directly from establishing its commander into another high-impact play.
Clive's enters ability turns excess cards into a fresh hand based on devotion, making his front face an important source of card velocity. Faithless Looting, Thrill of Possibility, Seize the Spoils, Vision of Love, Misty Knight, Hero for Hire, Murmuring Volume, Unstable Amulet, and Vance’s Blasting Cannons provide additional ways to keep resources moving.
Conjurer’s Closet is particularly useful in this shell. It can retrigger creatures such as Combustible Gearhulk or Solemn Simulacrum while also supporting the deck's broader emphasis on extracting repeated value from individually impactful creatures.
Electroduplicate, Molten Duplication, Twinflame, Cursed Mirror, and Identity Echo allow the deck to create temporary or additional copies of its best creatures. Copying Etali, Combustible Gearhulk, Goldspan Dragon, Tectonic Giant, or other creatures with immediate value can generate significant tempo without requiring the deck to overcommit permanently.
Ogre Battledriver supplies immediate haste and additional power, while Anger provides another route to haste from the graveyard. Combat Celebrant introduces additional combat steps, and Helm of the Host can turn a surviving high-impact creature into a repeatable source of additional bodies and triggers.
The interaction suite covers both individual threats and developed boards. Abrade, Lightning Bolt, Chaos Warp, Untimely Malfunction, and Ifrit’s fight chapter handle targeted problems, while Blasphemous Act and Chain Reaction provide scalable sweepers.
Magus of the Moon pressures complex opposing mana bases while leaving the deck's overwhelmingly red mana development largely intact. Scavenger Grounds supplies graveyard interaction from the mana base, giving the deck access to another form of disruption without consuming a dedicated spell slot.
The deck converts its mana development into increasingly difficult combat steps. Drakuseth distributes substantial damage whenever it attacks, Etali generates free spells, and Neheb turns combat damage into additional postcombat mana. Sarkhan’s Unsealing adds direct damage as larger creatures are cast, allowing the deck to pressure opposing boards even before combat.
Gratuitous Violence substantially increases the damage output of the creature suite, while Combat Celebrant can create another opportunity to attack with established threats. Helm of the Host provides a slower but repeatable route to overwhelming the table, particularly when attached to creatures whose attack or triggered abilities are as important as their combat stats.
The deck is constructed around a clear progression: develop red permanents, accelerate mana, establish Clive, and turn that resource base into increasingly explosive creature and combat sequences. The devotion package is integrated into cards that already serve meaningful strategic roles, minimizing the need for narrow inclusions simply to enable the commander.
The mana base remains intentionally stable for a mono-colored strategy, with utility lands such as Scavenger Grounds, Spinerock Knoll, Forgotten Cave, Great Furnace, and Myriad Landscape supplementing a substantial basic Mountain count. Ritual mana, permanent acceleration, card filtering, removal, sweepers, and multiple independent finishers give the deck several avenues of play without moving away from Clive and Ifrit as its central engine.
100-card singleton Commander deck, legal for EDH
All cards in Near Mint to Lightly Played condition
Professionally sleeved and ready to play
Built for consistent performance and strategic depth
Enjoy mono-red decks built around explosive mana generation and large, high-impact creatures
Prefer combat strategies with copying, extra-combat, devotion, and triggered-ability synergies
Appreciate cohesive Commander builds that combine a thematic commander with multiple interconnected engines
Clive, Ifrit’s Dominant leads a mono-red Commander deck built around red devotion, explosive mana production, high-impact creatures, and repeated combat pressure. Clive provides both hand filtering and card replenishment on entry, then converts a developed red board into Ifrit, Warden of Inferno—a 9/9 Saga threat capable of fighting opposing creatures, producing a major burst of red mana, and eventually transforming back into Clive to restart the cycle.
The deck is structured to make that transformation meaningful rather than simply treating Clive as a large creature. Dense red permanents build devotion, ritual effects accelerate the deck into its upper curve, and copy and blink effects repeatedly extract value from creatures with strong enters-the-battlefield or attack triggers.
This build operates as a mono-red big-mana midrange deck with devotion and combat-combo elements. Early turns establish mana through Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Ruby Medallion, Hazoret’s Monument, Wayfarer’s Bauble, Glittering Stockpile, and smaller mana-producing creatures. From there, cards such as Seething Song, Geosurge, Mana Geyser, Neheb, the Eternal, and Ifrit itself create the explosive turns necessary to deploy multiple threats or activate Clive.
The upper end of the deck is deliberately filled with creatures that reward copying, granting haste, or receiving additional combat steps. Etali, Primal Storm, Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Combustible Gearhulk, Goldspan Dragon, Tectonic Giant, and Combat Celebrant each create substantial value beyond their printed bodies, giving the deck multiple ways to convert temporary mana advantages into lasting board pressure.
Clive rewards maintaining a substantial concentration of red mana symbols on the battlefield. Defiler of Instinct, Neheb, the Eternal, Drakuseth, Magus of the Moon, Gratuitous Violence, and other red permanents naturally increase devotion while advancing the deck's primary game plan.
Ruby Medallion and Hazoret’s Monument improve sequencing across multiple spells, while Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, Geosurge, Mana Geyser, Goldspan Dragon, and Neheb provide larger bursts of mana. Once Clive becomes Ifrit, its second chapter adds another significant infusion of red mana, allowing the deck to move directly from establishing its commander into another high-impact play.
Clive's enters ability turns excess cards into a fresh hand based on devotion, making his front face an important source of card velocity. Faithless Looting, Thrill of Possibility, Seize the Spoils, Vision of Love, Misty Knight, Hero for Hire, Murmuring Volume, Unstable Amulet, and Vance’s Blasting Cannons provide additional ways to keep resources moving.
Conjurer’s Closet is particularly useful in this shell. It can retrigger creatures such as Combustible Gearhulk or Solemn Simulacrum while also supporting the deck's broader emphasis on extracting repeated value from individually impactful creatures.
Electroduplicate, Molten Duplication, Twinflame, Cursed Mirror, and Identity Echo allow the deck to create temporary or additional copies of its best creatures. Copying Etali, Combustible Gearhulk, Goldspan Dragon, Tectonic Giant, or other creatures with immediate value can generate significant tempo without requiring the deck to overcommit permanently.
Ogre Battledriver supplies immediate haste and additional power, while Anger provides another route to haste from the graveyard. Combat Celebrant introduces additional combat steps, and Helm of the Host can turn a surviving high-impact creature into a repeatable source of additional bodies and triggers.
The interaction suite covers both individual threats and developed boards. Abrade, Lightning Bolt, Chaos Warp, Untimely Malfunction, and Ifrit’s fight chapter handle targeted problems, while Blasphemous Act and Chain Reaction provide scalable sweepers.
Magus of the Moon pressures complex opposing mana bases while leaving the deck's overwhelmingly red mana development largely intact. Scavenger Grounds supplies graveyard interaction from the mana base, giving the deck access to another form of disruption without consuming a dedicated spell slot.
The deck converts its mana development into increasingly difficult combat steps. Drakuseth distributes substantial damage whenever it attacks, Etali generates free spells, and Neheb turns combat damage into additional postcombat mana. Sarkhan’s Unsealing adds direct damage as larger creatures are cast, allowing the deck to pressure opposing boards even before combat.
Gratuitous Violence substantially increases the damage output of the creature suite, while Combat Celebrant can create another opportunity to attack with established threats. Helm of the Host provides a slower but repeatable route to overwhelming the table, particularly when attached to creatures whose attack or triggered abilities are as important as their combat stats.
The deck is constructed around a clear progression: develop red permanents, accelerate mana, establish Clive, and turn that resource base into increasingly explosive creature and combat sequences. The devotion package is integrated into cards that already serve meaningful strategic roles, minimizing the need for narrow inclusions simply to enable the commander.
The mana base remains intentionally stable for a mono-colored strategy, with utility lands such as Scavenger Grounds, Spinerock Knoll, Forgotten Cave, Great Furnace, and Myriad Landscape supplementing a substantial basic Mountain count. Ritual mana, permanent acceleration, card filtering, removal, sweepers, and multiple independent finishers give the deck several avenues of play without moving away from Clive and Ifrit as its central engine.
100-card singleton Commander deck, legal for EDH
All cards in Near Mint to Lightly Played condition
Professionally sleeved and ready to play
Built for consistent performance and strategic depth
Enjoy mono-red decks built around explosive mana generation and large, high-impact creatures
Prefer combat strategies with copying, extra-combat, devotion, and triggered-ability synergies
Appreciate cohesive Commander builds that combine a thematic commander with multiple interconnected engines
