RedLegendary Creature — Human Noble Warrior // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga DemonClive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
Mana value6Rank#3,713
The Commander
When Clive enters, you may discard your hand, then draw cards equal to your devotion to red. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)
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: Exile Clive, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Lunge — Ifrit fights up to one other target creature.
II, III — Brimstone — Add . If Ifrit has three or more lore counters on it, exile it, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Guide
Gameplan
Clive is a mono-red devotion payoff: drop him early to refill your hand based on red pips, build a wide board of cheap red permanents, then flip him into Ifrit to fight down blockers and dump huge bursts of red mana into X-spells or big plays. You churn aggression and devotion until you can convert mana and damage into a lethal turn.
Strengths
- Card advantage via the discard-and-draw ETB scales hard in a dense mono-red devotion shell
- Ifrit's Brimstone makes four red mana that fuels X-spells and explosive turns
- Repeatable removal through Lunge fights and recastable from the command zone
- Mono-red consistency and access to fast mana, rituals, and impulse draw
Weaknesses
- The transform ability is expensive (6 mana, sorcery speed) and slow against fast combo
- ETB draw is a gamble with low devotion or a strong hand you don't want to discard
- Mono-red struggles with enchantment/artifact-heavy stax and lacks card-type interaction
- No built-in protection; vulnerable to spot removal and board wipes that reset devotion
Key Cards
- Fiery Emancipation — Triples your damage output, turning Ifrit's mana and combat into instant lethal.
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell — Boosts all red damage and adds devotion while making burn spells overwhelming.
- Birgi, God of Storytelling — Generates mana off every spell to fuel Brimstone-fed storm turns and adds devotion.
- Comet, Stellar Pup — A cheap planeswalker that floods the board and contributes to red devotion.
- Underworld Breach — Pairs with the big red mana from Ifrit to recur rituals for explosive combo turns.
- Jeska's Will — Refills your hand and dumps mana that feeds X-spells and Ifrit's gameplan.
Upgrade Path
Maximize red pip density with cards like Torbran, Birgi, and double-pip threats so the ETB draws full grips and Ifrit fires reliably. Add fast mana (Jeska's Will, Mana Geyser, rituals) and damage doublers to weaponize Brimstone's four mana into one-shot burn. For higher power, lean into Underworld Breach/ritual storm lines and tutors like Gamble to assemble a combo finish faster than the slow transform clock.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Massive X burn spells like Fireball or Comet Storm fueled by Brimstone mana
- ▸Damage doublers (Fiery Emancipation, Torbran) converting direct damage into lethal
- ▸A wide aggressive board with overrun effects or Impact Tremors-style triggers
- ▸Underworld Breach storm loops finishing with a large burn spell
Archetypes
- Devotion Ramp — Clive rewards a board full of red pips with card draw and Ifrit's burst mana.
- Aggro/Burn — Cheap red permanents and damage doublers push fast wide-or-tall pressure.
- Big Mana / X-spells — Ifrit's Brimstone produces four red mana to power huge Fireball-style finishers.
- Spellslinger Combo — Ritual mana plus Underworld Breach or Birgi enables storm-style kill turns.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
