Hellkite Charger

Bracket

• B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Old Gnawbone, Sozin's Comet, Firebending Student, The Reaver Cleaver, Fire Nation Turret, Iroh, Dragon of the West, Fire Lord Zuko, Zuko, Firebending Master, Grand Warlord Radha, Sword of Feast and Famine, Bear Umbra, Nature's Will, Sun Warriors, Druids' Repository, Shriekwood Devourer, Hoard Hauler, Tesak, Judith's Hellhound, Luxurious Locomotive, Preston Garvey, Minuteman, Thorin, Company's Leader
• B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Old Gnawbone, Sozin's Comet, Firebending Student, The Reaver Cleaver, Fire Nation Turret, Iroh, Dragon of the West, Fire Lord Zuko, Zuko, Firebending Master, Grand Warlord Radha, Sword of Feast and Famine, Bear Umbra, Nature's Will, Sun Warriors, Druids' Repository, Shriekwood Devourer, Hoard Hauler, Tesak, Judith's Hellhound, Luxurious Locomotive, Preston Garvey, Minuteman, Thorin, Company's Leader
• B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Sozin's Comet, Firebending Student, Fire Lord Zuko, Zuko, Firebending Master, Grand Warlord Radha, Sword of Feast and Famine, Bear Umbra, Nature's Will, Sun Warriors, Druids' Repository, Shriekwood Devourer, Tesak, Judith's Hellhound, Luxurious Locomotive, Preston Garvey, Minuteman
• B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
• B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

• Two-card combo with Old Gnawbone, Sozin's Comet, Firebending Student, The Reaver Cleaver, Fire Nation Turret, Iroh, Dragon of the West, Fire Lord Zuko, Zuko, Firebending Master, Grand Warlord Radha, Sword of Feast and Famine, Bear Umbra, Nature's Will, Sun Warriors, Druids' Repository, Shriekwood Devourer, Hoard Hauler, Tesak, Judith's Hellhound, Luxurious Locomotive, Preston Garvey, Minuteman, Thorin, Company's Leader (early with Sozin's Comet, Firebending Student, Fire Lord Zuko, Zuko, Firebending Master, Grand Warlord Radha, Sword of Feast and Famine, Bear Umbra, Nature's Will, Sun Warriors, Druids' Repository, Shriekwood Devourer, Tesak, Judith's Hellhound, Luxurious Locomotive, Preston Garvey, Minuteman)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

95 known combos, 20 of them two-card.

• Old Gnawbone + Hellkite Charger
  Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  View on Commander Spellbook
• Hellkite Charger + Sozin's Comet
  Produces: Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite combat damage
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• Hellkite Charger + Firebending Student
  Produces: Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana, Infinite combat damage
  View on Commander Spellbook

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
  You decide whether to pay {5}{R}{R} as Hellkite Charger’s ability resolves.
• 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
  Hellkite Charger’s ability may trigger multiple times in the same turn, since its own ability gives it multiple chances to attack. Each time it resolves, you may create an additional combat phase.
• 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
  If you pay {5}{R}{R}, the new combat phase immediately follows the current combat phase. There is no main phase in between.
• 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
  If two Hellkite Chargers attack at the same time, both of their abilities trigger. If you pay {5}{R}{R} for each, two new combat phases will be created. However, all attacking creatures untap as those abilities resolve, not as the combat phases start. Any creature that attacks in the second combat phase will remain tapped during the third combat phase.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast