RakdosLegendary Creature — Vampire EmployeeMonoxa, Midway Manager
Mana value4Rank#13,720
The Commander
Whenever you roll a 3 or higher, Monoxa gains first strike until end of turn. If the roll was 4 or higher, it gains menace until end of turn. If the roll was 5 or higher, it gains lifelink until end of turn.
: Roll a six-sided die.
Guide
Gameplan
Monoxa is a dice-rolling aggro-combat commander that snowballs keyword abilities (first strike, menace, lifelink) as your rolls climb. The deck wants to abuse rolling a d6 cheaply and repeatedly, stacking damage-boosting effects and double-strike to turn Monoxa or a wide board into a lethal threat. Turn to turn you develop ramp and roll-payoffs, then attack while triggering dice rolls to keep buffs online.
Strengths
- Built-in evasion and lifelink stapled to the commander once your rolls are high enough, making her a resilient beater
- Loves the growing pool of die-rolling support cards in Red, which provide explosive value engines
- BR gives access to strong removal, ramp, and recursion to protect the gameplan
- Self-contained activated ability (: roll a d6) means Monoxa is never a dead engine even with no other roll cards
Weaknesses
- Inherent variance—low rolls leave Monoxa as a vanilla 4-mana creature with no keywords
- The activation is mana-hungry and slow without cost reducers or die-roll enablers
- Commander-dependent: removal-heavy tables can repeatedly answer Monoxa and stall the plan
- Lacks card advantage on its own, so flooding or running out of gas is a real risk
Key Cards
- Pixie Guide — Lets you roll an extra die and keep the higher result, drastically improving the odds of hitting 5+ for all three keywords.
- Barbara Wright — Doubles your dice rolls and converts excess rolls into card draw, fueling both Monoxa's triggers and your hand.
- The Big Idea — Cuts down activation costs and rerolls/boosts your dice, making Monoxa's ability and other roll engines far more reliable.
- Delina, Wild Mage — Combines dice rolling with token copies of attackers, generating extra bodies while feeding the roll-matters theme.
- Fiendish Duo — Punishes opponents whenever you roll a die, turning your roll engine into direct damage.
- Plargg and Nassari — Rewards die rolling with repeated impulse draw, solving the deck's card-advantage problem in Rakdos colors.
Upgrade Path
Prioritize roll-quality and quantity enablers—Pixie Guide, Barbara Wright, and The Big Idea—to make 5+ rolls consistent rather than gambling. Add cost reducers and ramp (Rakdos Signet, Arcane Signet, Treasure makers) so Monoxa's ability and other activations fire multiple times per turn, then layer in double strike (Grappling Hook, Sword of the Animist-style equipment) and protection like Lightning Greaves. To raise the ceiling further, include a roll-based combo or extra-combat package and tighten the curve with efficient interaction.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Suiting up Monoxa with double strike and pump to deal lethal commander damage with menace and first strike
- ▸Roll-payoff burn (Fiendish Duo, Roll for Initiative effects) draining all opponents simultaneously
- ▸Going wide with token-makers like Delina and overrunning with anthem effects
Archetypes
- Dice-Matters Aggro — Monoxa rewards every roll with combat keywords, so a deck packed with d20/d6 rollers turns dice into lethal swings.
- Voltron — Stacking first strike, menace, and lifelink onto Monoxa plus equipment and double strike makes her a one-creature kill.
- Combo/Value Engine — Roll-doublers and cost reducers can chain massive numbers of rolls for stacked payoff triggers in a single turn.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
