Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
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.
How Purphoros decks play in EDH
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded is a mono-red commander costing 4R, and its legendary enchantment creature - god line shapes the whole deck around it. Sacrifice is built into the card, which pairs it with cheap recursive creatures and payoffs that trigger when something dies. Artifacts drive the deck, so cheap mana rocks and artifact recursion do double duty. The cards below are the ones Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $22.39Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Card draw (2)
Removal (4)
Creatures (8)
Synergy & payoffs (5)
Lands (1)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded deck?
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded has a mono-red colour identity, so every card in the deck must be red or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded?
The cards played most often in Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded decks include Desert Were-Worm, Memnarch, the Warden, Venser, Fervent Forger. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $22.39 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.