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Hellkite Tyrant

Creature — Dragon

Flying, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
$5.05
EDHREC rank
#773
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Hellkite Tyrant card art
Hellkite Tyrant steals every artifact it deals combat damage to — and if you control twenty or more artifacts at your upkeep, you win the game outright. Pair it with Mycosynth Lattice and every permanent on the board becomes an artifact, which means one swing can gut an opponent's entire board state while setting up the alternate win condition. Knuckles the Echidna decks run this at nearly 74% inclusion for good reason: the combination of a closing threat and a resource-denial engine in one card is rare at any mana cost.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Knuckles the Echidna

Knuckles the Echidna

73.8% of decks · synergy 0.63

Knuckles the Echidna's artifact-heavy game plan means Hellkite Tyrant can trigger the twenty-artifact win condition without any external setup — the commander's own synergies pile up the artifact count while the Tyrant threatens to close the game the moment it connects.

02
Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Jolene, the Plunder Queen

57.7% of decks · synergy 0.53

Jolene, the Plunder Queen floods the board with Treasure tokens, and Hellkite Tyrant converts those stolen artifacts into an ever-growing hoard — stealing an opponent's Treasures mid-combat accelerates Jolene's own engine while threatening the alternate win condition.

03
Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Vazi, Keen Negotiator

49.2% of decks · synergy 0.46

Vazi, Keen Negotiator distributes treasures across opponents, so Hellkite Tyrant punishes anyone who accepts the gift by ripping those tokens away the moment the dragon connects — it's a political threat that makes opponents afraid to accumulate the resources Vazi is handing out.

04
Tannuk, Steadfast Second

Tannuk, Steadfast Second

55.6% of decks · synergy 0.44

Tannuk, Steadfast Second's artifact synergies mean Hellkite Tyrant fits naturally as a top-end finisher that can swing the board state by stripping an opponent's mana rocks and artifacts in a single attack step.

05
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

47.6% of decks · synergy 0.44

Rivaz of the Claw cheats Dragons into play from the graveyard and recurs them at cost, so Hellkite Tyrant becomes a repeatable artifact-theft engine — even if it dies, Rivaz can put it back to work the following turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Hellkite Tyrant actually lives: four opponents means four artifact-rich boards to plunder, and the twenty-artifact win condition is realistically achievable in a format where mana rocks are ubiquitous. In Legacy and Vintage, a six-mana 6/5 with no immediate board impact competes against formats that close games on turns one through three, so the Tyrant sits firmly in casual-only territory there. Modern has the same problem — the payoff is too slow for a format that demands answers by turn four at the latest. Pioneer is legal but similarly inhospitable; the dragon's power ceiling requires a board state that midrange and control decks won't let you build. Oathbreaker can support it in the right artifact shell, but the compressed game speed makes the alternate win condition hard to reach before opponents close out.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Larceny and Thieving Amalgam offer repeatable theft effects at a fraction of the cost, though neither closes the game the way Hellkite Tyrant does — they grind resources rather than ending things outright. If the goal is specifically the artifact-theft angle on a budget, Sharding Sphinx or Hoard-Smelter Dragon give you artifact interaction in the same color at low price points, accepting that you lose the alternate win condition and the raw threat density Hellkite Tyrant brings.

Price Context

Current price

$5.05 mid tier

At $5.05, Hellkite Tyrant sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a commitment, cheap enough that it belongs in any artifact deck that can cast it. The combination of a high-power combo role with Mycosynth Lattice and broad inclusion across Treasure and artifact commanders means demand stays steady, so this price is unlikely to crater.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.