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Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

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.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
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Price
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EDHREC rank
#4316
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Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded card art
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded turns any red creature deck into a haste-enabler and repeatable cheat-into-play engine — every creature you cast threatens immediate combat damage before opponents can respond. The cost is real: he enters as an indestructible enchantment unless you're paying his devotion threshold, and the activated ability's two-red plus sacrifice clause means each creature is on borrowed time. Still, for decks that want creatures swinging the turn they arrive, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded is the cleanest enabler in red, and commanders like Krenko, Mob Boss and Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father build around him precisely for that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Atreus, Impulsive SonKratos, Stoic Father

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father

48.6% of decks · synergy 0.47

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father casts massive creatures for free off the top of the library, and Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded gives every one of them haste the moment it enters — turning an already explosive impulse draw into an immediate threat rather than a must-attack setup that telegraphs the board state.

02
Feldon of the Third Path

Feldon of the Third Path

37.3% of decks · synergy 0.35

Feldon of the Third Path creates token copies of creatures from the graveyard at the end of combat, and those tokens would normally enter without haste and be sacrificed at end of turn anyway — Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded lets them attack immediately, squeezing a full combat swing out of every Feldon activation before the sacrifice clause catches up.

03
Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Obeka, Brute Chronologist

32.9% of decks · synergy 0.32

Obeka, Brute Chronologist can end turns to dodge cleanup triggers, and pairing her with Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded means temporary creatures created by either commander can attack the same turn they enter, maximizing value before Obeka ends the turn and erases the sacrifice window.

04

Esika, God of the Tree

11.4% of decks · synergy 0.10

Esika, God of the Tree's The Prismatic Bridge flips a free permanent onto the battlefield every upkeep, and Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded ensures any creature that lands from that trigger can attack immediately rather than wait a turn — a straightforward but high-ceiling combination in a five-color shell full of expensive threats.

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 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded does his real work — the combination of indestructibility, a passive haste-granting static ability, and a repeatable cheat-into-play activation is built for the long, creature-heavy games the format produces. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer he's legal but essentially absent from competitive play; a five-mana god who doesn't attack on his own and requires red devotion to become a creature is simply too slow and too narrow against those formats' interaction density. Vintage carries the same verdict — powerful cards, but Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded's payoff is creature synergy, not raw mana efficiency, so he rarely fits. Oathbreaker is the one fringe alternative worth considering, where he can serve as a signature spell of sorts in a creature-heavy aggressive shell, though the 20-life starting total compresses his window considerably.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

281 decks
Breath of FuryPurphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Breath of FuryPurphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite combat damage

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Breath of FuryOtharri, Suns' GloryPurphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Breath of FuryOtharri, Suns' GloryPurphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite experience counters

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Price Context

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Current pricing data for Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number before buying. He's a god-type enchantment creature with consistent Commander demand and no reprint in a widely-opened set, which historically keeps prices elevated — factor that in when budgeting a slot.

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