RedLegendary Creature — God // LandOjer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
Mana value4Rank#1,457
The Commander
Trample
If a red source you control would deal an amount of noncombat damage less than Ojer Axonil's power to an opponent, that source deals damage equal to Ojer Axonil's power instead.
When Ojer Axonil dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.
(Transforms from Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might.)
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, : Transform this land. Activate only if red sources you controlled dealt 4 or more noncombat damage this turn and only as a sorcery.
Guide
Gameplan
Ojer Axonil turns every ping of noncombat red damage into a chunk equal to its power (5+), so you build a wide base of repeatable damage sources and pump the God to convert tiny pings into game-ending bursts. Early turns ramp and develop power-boosting effects, then a single 'deal 1 damage' card hits for 5, 6, or more—often to all opponents at once.
Strengths
- Massively amplifies cheap 'deal 1' pingers and burn into lethal damage
- Hard to kill permanently—it returns transformed when it dies
- Loves +1/+1 counters and power pumps, scaling the damage floor higher
- Mono-red gives easy access to ramp, rituals, and consistent damage outlets
Weaknesses
- Damage replacement only triggers on noncombat damage to opponents, not creatures
- Effects that prevent or redirect damage shut the whole plan down
- Mono-red struggles with card advantage and lacks countermagic or recursion outside red
- Removal can tempo you down even though it recurs (must be recast or returns tapped)
Key Cards
- Torch the Tower — A cheap one-damage spell becomes a huge burn hit through Ojer's replacement.
- Witch's Cauldron — Generic effects don't matter—what matters are repeatable red pingers like this style of engine to convert each ping.
- Spikeshot Goblin — A repeatable pinger whose damage is set to Ojer's power, letting you snipe for lethal each turn.
- Embercleave — Pumps Ojer's power so the noncombat damage floor scales even higher while adding trample pressure.
- Pyrohemia — Each '1 damage to everything' pulse hits opponents for Ojer's full power repeatedly.
- Heartless Hidetsugu — Halving life as noncombat red damage interacts explosively with Ojer's replacement floor.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, rituals) and tutors (Gamble, Imperial Recruiter) to find your pinger plus pump package faster, and lean into infinite ping combos like Heartless Hidetsugu plus untap effects. Prioritize cheap repeatable noncombat damage sources over one-shot burn, and include power amplifiers (Embercleave, counters, anthem effects) so even your weakest pings hit for huge amounts. Card-advantage engines like Outpost Siege and impulse draw keep the burn flowing in grindy games.
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
- ▸Repeatable pingers (e.g., machine-gun creatures) dealing Ojer's power to each opponent each turn
- ▸Burn spells converted to high-damage hits to close games quickly
- ▸Damage-to-all-opponents effects multiplied into simultaneous lethal
- ▸Big-power Ojer connecting with trample plus a finishing burn spell
Archetypes
- Burn/Spellslinger — Every small burn spell is upgraded to deal damage equal to Ojer's power, turning chip damage into haymakers.
- Pinger Aristocrats — Repeatable damage sources like ping creatures and machine-gun effects each fire for full power.
- Voltron/+1+1 Counters — Boosting Ojer's power raises the noncombat damage floor while trample pressures with the body.
- Combo — Infinite or repeatable ping loops convert into immediate lethal damage thanks to the replacement effect.
Combos
- Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power + Pyrohemia
→ Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage
- Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power + Warmonger
→ Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage
- Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power + Goblin Bombardment
→ Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
- Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power + Altar of Dementia
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
