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Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Warrior // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga Demon · {4}{R}{R} · Red commander

When Clive enters, you may discard your hand, then draw cards equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.) {4}{R}{R}, {T}: Exile Clive, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery. (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I — Lunge — Ifrit fights up to one other target creature. II, III — Brimstone — Add {R}{R}{R}{R}. If Ifrit has three or more lore counters on it, exile it, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

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What Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Clive enters, you may discard your hand, then draw cards equal to your devotion to red.
• Activated ability{4}{R}{R}, {T}: Exile Clive, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
• AbilityI — Lunge — Ifrit fights up to one other target creature.
• AbilityII, III — Brimstone — Add {R}{R}{R}{R}. If Ifrit has three or more lore counters on it, exile it, then return it to the battlefield .

What a Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno deck needs

Plays as ETB value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• permanents heavy in red mana pips (its text counts your devotion to red)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 9× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 9× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 11× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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