Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
Legendary Creature — God // Legendary Artifact
Legal Salt 1.06RampRank #486
Whenever you cast a spell, add 
. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once.
Discard a card: Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.
Why is this card good?
Birgi is one of red's best ritual engines because she effectively makes every spell cost less — but only as a refund, so the trick is chaining cheap spells to snowball mana. She's a key piece in storm and spellslinger decks, where casting a dozen small spells in a turn nets you a flood of red mana to dump into a payoff. Cantrips, rituals, and free spells turn her into a combo enabler (notably with Grinning Ignus loops for infinite mana/storm count).
She's also great as a value commander in dragons, big-mana, or impulse-draw shells thanks to Harnfel's backside, which converts discards into double card advantage — excellent with looting and reanimation packages.
Wants: storm, Krark/Sakashima chaos, Prosper-style impulse decks, low-curve mono-red aggro that casts many spells per turn.
Skip her if your deck runs few spells per turn or leans on expensive haymakers — she does nothing if you only cast one or two cards each turn.
less — but only as a refund, so the trick is chaining cheap spells to snowball mana. She's a key piece in storm and spellslinger decks, where casting a dozen small spells in a turn nets you a flood of red mana to dump into a payoff. Cantrips, rituals, and free spells turn her into a combo enabler (notably with Grinning Ignus loops for infinite mana/storm count).
She's also great as a value commander in dragons, big-mana, or impulse-draw shells thanks to Harnfel's backside, which converts discards into double card advantage — excellent with looting and reanimation packages.
Wants: storm, Krark/Sakashima chaos, Prosper-style impulse decks, low-curve mono-red aggro that casts many spells per turn.
Skip her if your deck runs few spells per turn or leans on expensive haymakers — she does nothing if you only cast one or two cards each turn.Related cards
Storm-Kiln Artist
Treasure-making spell ramp that pairs with Birgi's per-cast mana for storm combos.
Jeska's Will
Burst red ritual that fuels casting many spells alongside Birgi's mana trigger.
Runaway Steam-Kin
Generates red mana off spell casts, similar engine role to Birgi.
Valakut Exploration
Like Harnfel, exiles top cards to play and rewards cast-heavy red decks.
Outpost Siege
Provides repeatable card advantage/impulse draw like Harnfel's exile ability.
Reckless Impulse
Cheap impulse draw to chain spells with Birgi's mana refund.
Underworld Breach
Combo enabler with Birgi and rituals for infinite storm mana.
Pyromancer Ascension
Spellslinger payoff rewarding casting many spells like Birgi enables.
Printings (3)
Played by these commanders
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Combos (8)
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Seething Song + Reiterate
→ Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Dualcaster Mage + Snap
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite storm count
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Sensei's Divining Top + Prosper, Tome-Bound
→ Near-infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite looting, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Grinning Ignus
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite storm count
- Sensei's Divining Top + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Mystic Forge
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite storm count
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Sensei's Divining Top + Helm of Awakening
→ Near-infinite storm count, Near-infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite looting
Rulings (17)
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Birgi’s first ability uses the stack and can be responded to. It isn’t a mana ability.
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You must still attack with a creature you control to activate its boast ability.
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The cards exiled by Harnfel’s activated ability are exiled face up.
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You may play those cards that turn even if Harnfel leaves the battlefield or another player gains control of it.
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To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you’re playing and ignore the other face’s characteristics.
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If an effect allows you to play a specific modal double-faced card, you may cast it as a spell or play it as a land, as determined by which face you choose to play. If an effect allows you to cast (rather than “play”) a specific modal double-faced card, you can’t play it as a land.
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If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect.
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The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that’s being considered. On the stack and battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.
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A modal double-faced card can’t be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed. Ignore any instruction to transform a modal double-faced card or to put one onto the battlefield transformed.
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If an effect puts a double-faced card onto the battlefield, it enters with its front face up. If that front face can’t be put onto the battlefield, it doesn’t enter the battlefield.
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If an effect instructs a player to choose a card name, the name of either face may be chosen. If that effect or a linked ability refers to a spell with the chosen name being cast and/or a land with the chosen name being played, it considers only the chosen name, not the other face’s name.
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In the Commander variant, a double-faced card’s color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered.
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Playing the cards exiled with Harnfel follows the normal rules for playing those cards. You must pay their costs, if any, and you must follow all applicable timing rules. For example, if one of the cards is a creature card, you can cast that card by paying its mana cost only during your main phase while the stack is empty.
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Unless an effect allows you to play additional lands that turn, you can play land cards exiled with Harnfel only if you haven’t played a land yet that turn. In most cases, if you exile two land cards with Harnfel, you won’t be able to play both.
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Any cards exiled with Harnfel that you don’t play remain exiled.
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The card you discard to activate the ability isn’t part of “those cards” and can’t be played, even if it somehow ends up in exile.