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Kiora of Fire and Ashes
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble · {4}{R}{R} · Red commander
When Kiora enters, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
{8}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
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What Kiora of Fire and Ashes 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 Kiora enters, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
- Activated ability{8}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
What a Kiora of Fire and Ashes deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
- mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)
The Kiora of Fire and Ashes deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 5× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
Best cards for Kiora of Fire and Ashes
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.
Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Rite of Flame1 mana
- Mind Stone2 mana
- Thought Vessel2 mana
- Cryptic Trilobite0 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
- Fear of Missing Out2 mana
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak5 mana
- Voldaren Epicure1 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Anax, Hardened in the Forge3 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Chandra, Acolyte of Flame3 mana
- Hanweir Garrison3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
- Tilonalli's Summoner2 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Castle Embereth0 mana
- Great Train Heist1 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
- Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Hoarding Dragon5 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Combos with Kiora of Fire and Ashes
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kiora of Fire and Ashes is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Kiora of Fire and Ashes + Mana Echoes6 decks
- Kiora of Fire and Ashes + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron + Ashnod's Altar1 decks
- Kiora of Fire and Ashes + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar
- Kiora of Fire and Ashes + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron + Ganax, Astral Hunter
- Kiora of Fire and Ashes + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron + Phyrexian Altar
- Kiora of Fire and Ashes + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron + Thermopod