The Commander
Trample
Amarant Coral attacks each combat if able.
No Mercy — Whenever Amarant Coral deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent.
Guide
Gameplan
Suit up Amarant Coral and swing every turn: because combat damage to one opponent echoes to every other opponent, a single connecting attack pressures the whole table at once. You ramp into the commander, stack power and evasion-relevant effects (trample is built in), and turn one big hit into lethal life loss across all three opponents simultaneously.
Strengths
- Effectively triple-strikes the table—every point of combat damage is multiplied across all opponents
- Trample plus the 'attacks each combat' clause make it a relentless, hard-to-chump beater
- Green-red gives the best ramp and the deepest pool of cheap power/double-strike pumps
- Closes games shockingly fast once it's connecting, ending three players on one swing
- No setup combos required—just attack triggers do the heavy lifting
Weaknesses
- The forced-attack clause lets opponents bait it into bad blocks or removal
- Single point of failure: spot removal or a fog stalls your whole plan
- No evasion beyond trample, so flyers and big walls can blunt it
- Drawing the wrong half of the deck (all pump, no commander) leaves you with little
- Paints a target on you—being the multi-opponent threat invites the table to gang up
Key Cards
- Fireshrieker — Double strike doubles the damage that gets multiplied to every opponent, often instantly lethal.
- Embercleave — Cheap, flash-in double strike plus +1/+1 turns a single hit into table-wide kills.
- Berserk — Doubles Amarant's power for a swing, and the echoed damage hits all opponents at the boosted number.
- Rancor — Recurring cheap pump that adds reach-of-damage and stays even after the creature dies.
- Swiftfoot Boots — Hexproof and haste protect your single key threat and let it attack the turn it lands.
- Xenagos, God of Revels — Doubles power and grants haste each combat, perfectly amplifying the multiplied damage.
- Surrak Dragonclaw — Gives the team haste and uncounterable creatures while padding the board against control.
Upgrade Path
Lean into damage doublers and double strike—Embercleave, Fireshrieker, and effects like Furnace of Rath or Gratuitous Violence make each multiplied hit catastrophic. Add cheap protection (Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves) and recursion so removal doesn't reset you, and improve the ramp suite (Sol Ring, signets, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove) to deploy and reload faster. For higher power, add evasion-and-pump in one card like Loxodon Warhammer's lifegain or trample enablers and consider Tainted Strike/Berserk lines to oversize a single decisive swing.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Connect with a double-strike, pumped Amarant to deal lethal life loss to all opponents at once
- ▸Grind opponents down over a few combats as the multiplied damage erodes everyone's life total
- ▸Pair a power doubler (Xenagos/Berserk) with trample to push through chump blocks for a one-shot kill
Archetypes
- Voltron — Loading equipment and auras onto Amarant turns one connection into table-wide damage.
- Big Mana Beatdown — GR ramp casts and recasts the commander quickly, then funds huge pump spells to push lethal.
- Aggro/Combat Damage Combo — Double strike plus power doublers create deterministic multi-opponent kills in a single attack step.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GR), by popularity.
