RedCreature — Goblin Warrior // Legendary Creature — Goblin ShamanAkki Lavarunner // Tok-Tok, Volcano Born
Mana value4Rank#21,044
The Commander
Haste
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, flip it.
Protection from red
If a red source would deal damage to a player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that player instead.
Guide
Gameplan
Connect with Akki Lavarunner via haste to flip it into Tok-Tok, Volcano Born, then turn the game into a mono-red burn-and-ping engine where every red source deals +1 damage to players. You aggro early, flip the commander, and grind opponents out with pingers, burn spells, and damage amplifiers until life totals collapse.
Strengths
- Cheap, hasty commander that pressures the board immediately
- Tok-Tok's +1 damage rider supercharges every burn spell and pinger in the deck
- Mono-red consistency and access to strong ramp/rituals and impulse draw
- Protection from red on Tok-Tok dodges some removal and combat damage
Weaknesses
- Flip requires landing combat damage, so it gets chump-blocked or stalled by big boards
- Mono-red struggles with card advantage and has weak interaction outside burn
- Symmetrical-ish damage; the +1 doesn't hit creatures, only players
- Highly reliant on the commander; removal-heavy tables can keep it off the table
- Group-burn plans are slow against lifegain and high-life-total pods
Key Cards
- Spikeshot Goblin — A repeatable pinger that, with Tok-Tok out, deals its power +1 to any player every turn.
- Cunstable Footing — Cheap burn that scales nicely and represents incremental damage boosted by the +1 rider.
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell — Stacks with Tok-Tok so each red source deals damage plus 2 to players, turning small burn into kills.
- Pyrohemia — Repeatable red damage to all players that Tok-Tok and Torbran amplify into a one-sided race.
- Embercleave — Cheap to cast off an aggressive board and helps Akki connect to flip while threatening lethal.
- Fireblast — Free, huge burst of red damage to the face that the +1 rider makes even more lethal.
Upgrade Path
Lean into damage amplifiers (Torbran, Fiery Emancipation, Furnace of Rath) so each red source kills faster, and add repeatable pingers plus untap effects like Thousand-Year Elixir. Improve card flow with impulse draw (Light Up the Stage, Wheel of Misfortune) and add fast mana (Jeska's Will, rituals) and protection (Deflecting Swat, Boots/Greaves) to keep Tok-Tok online. Tighten the burn package with efficient X-spells and tutors to assemble Torbran + Tok-Tok for explosive lethal turns.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Beating down with goblins and a buffed Akki/Tok-Tok in combat
- ▸Burn spells and Fireblast/Banefire to the face amplified by Tok-Tok
- ▸Repeatable pingers (Spikeshot Goblin, Pyrohemia) grinding all opponents out
- ▸Stacking Torbran with Tok-Tok to make small burn deal lethal across the table
Archetypes
- Burn / Direct Damage — Tok-Tok's +1 to all red damage to players turns a pile of burn spells into a viable mono-red kill plan.
- Pingers / Damage Engine — Repeatable damage sources like Spikeshot Goblin and Cuombajj Witches scale dramatically with the flip side's rider.
- Goblin Aggro — A hasty goblin commander supports a fast goblin tribal beatdown shell that also helps Akki flip.
- Voltron — Equipment and pump let Akki swing through to flip quickly and close games via combat.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
