The Commander
Myojin of Cleansing Fire enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Myojin of Cleansing Fire has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Cleansing Fire: Destroy all other creatures.
Guide
Gameplan
You ramp into an 8-mana mono-white fatty that doubles as a one-shot board wipe stapled to a 4/6 indestructible body. Stall the early game with removal and fog effects, drop Myojin from hand to get the divinity counter, then pop it to wrath the board while keeping your own creature. From there you grind out value with white's recursion and attrition, eventually closing through superior board presence or a finisher.
Strengths
- Built-in indestructible board wipe that leaves your commander standing
- Mono-white consistency makes ramp and tutors easy to assemble
- Resilient threat—indestructible while it holds the divinity counter
- Pairs naturally with proliferate and counter-doubling to reuse the wipe
Weaknesses
- Eight mana is brutally slow without dedicated ramp
- Effect is a one-shot unless you can replenish the divinity counter
- Exile, bounce, and -X/-X removal ignore its indestructibility
- Mono-white struggles for card advantage and ramp compared to other colors
- If countered or cast from anywhere but hand, it gets no counter and no wipe
Key Cards
- Doubling Season — Doubles the entering divinity counter to two, letting you wrath the board twice.
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider — Doubles counters placed on Myojin so it enters with two divinity counters for repeated wipes.
- Karn's Bastion — Proliferate adds divinity counters back, turning the one-shot wipe into a repeatable engine.
- Smothering Tithe — Mono-white's premier ramp/treasure engine to actually reach eight mana on time.
- Teferi's Protection — Phases you out to dodge wipes and combos while you set up the Myojin lock.
- Akroma's Will — Flexible finisher granting evasion and protection to push lethal after you've wrathed the board.
Upgrade Path
Lean hard into ramp (Smothering Tithe, Sol Ring, mana rocks, Cabal Coffers + Nykthos) so you cast Myojin from hand on time, then add counter-doublers (Doubling Season, Vorinclex) and proliferate sources (Karn's Bastion, Inexorable Tide) to make the wipe repeatable. Round out with strong protection (Teferi's Protection, Heroic Intervention) and white card-advantage engines (Welcoming Vampire, Esper Sentinel) to offset the color's grind issues, and add a clean finisher so wiping actually converts to a win.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Repeatedly wiping the board with proliferate/doubling support until opponents run out of threats, then attacking out
- ▸Resolving a big mono-white finisher like a god-tier creature or overrun effect after a one-sided wrath
- ▸Grinding the table into topdeck mode and winning the attrition war
Archetypes
- Stax/Control — A reusable board wipe attached to an indestructible body lets you keep the board clear while you grind ahead.
- Counters/Proliferate — Doubling and proliferate effects refuel divinity counters for repeated wraths.
- Midrange Attrition — White's recursion and removal let you out-value opponents after asymmetric board wipes.
Combos
- Myojin of Cleansing Fire + Myojin of Grim Betrayal + Huatli's Raptor
→ Destroy all creatures except Myojin of Cleansing Fire during each turn, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
- Myojin of Cleansing Fire + Myojin of Grim Betrayal + Park Heights Maverick
→ Destroy all creatures during each turn, Destroy all creatures that enter the battlefield, Gain control of most creatures during each of your turns
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (W), by popularity.
