Card
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
Mana cost {4}{R}
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God 7/6
Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Other creatures you control have haste. {2}{R}: You may put a red creature card or an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 424 known combos. 13 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · THB · #150
- Cheapest printing
- €2.58
- EDHREC salt
- 0.54
- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- Indestructible
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
424 known combos.
- Breath of Fury + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Temur Sabertooth + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite blinking
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It’s always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It’s always a creature spell while it’s on the stack. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Counters put on a God remain on it while it’s not a creature, even if they have no effect. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won’t be counted when determining this. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s). - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it’s still on the battlefield at that time. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If you put an Aura on an opponent’s permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
The abilities of Gods function as long as they’re on the battlefield, regardless of whether they’re creatures. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won’t rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast