1.3k
2/21/2025
Hofri throws Fastball Specials
Deck Size: 100
Commander
Legal
Est deck cost: $676.42
Salt sum: 42.02
1.3k
2/21/2025
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99
Hofri Ghostforge

Spirits you control get +1/+1 and have trample and haste. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types and it has "When this token leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's graveyard."

Creature
Hofri Ghostforge (stx) 344

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Instant

Qty: 6 Price: $17.94
Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Bolt Bend (war) 115
Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (c21) 210
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (c16) 122
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (md1) 3
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (c16) 78
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sta) 46

Instant

(CTRL to add secondary)

Artifact

Qty: 10 Price: $132.50
Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c21) 234
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (chr) 92
Boros Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Artifact
Boros Signet (c15) 247
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c15) 257
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (c15) 267
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c15) 268
Talisman of Conviction

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (mh1) 230

Artifact

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land

Qty: 35 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $159.63
Alpine Meadow

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Alpine Meadow (khm) 248
Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (ori) 244
Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Land
Bonders' Enclave (iko) 363
Boros Garrison

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (c15) 279
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (2xm) 312
Clifftop Retreat

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (isd) 238
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c15) 281
Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (c14) 293
Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Escape Tunnel (mkm) 261
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (c15) 283
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (c15) 289
Inspiring Vantage

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Inspiring Vantage (kld) 246
Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Land
Kor Haven (exp) 41
Mines of Moria

Mines of Moria enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {R}. {3}{R}, {T}, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.

Land
Mines of Moria (ltr) 257
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (ust) 215
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c16) 309
Needleverge Pathway

Land
Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (znr) 288Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (znr) 288
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (bfz) 251
Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Sacred Foundry (gtc) 245
Sacred Peaks

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Sacred Peaks (dmu) 254
Secluded Steppe

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Secluded Steppe (c15) 304
Slayers' Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains vigilance and haste until end of turn.

Land
Slayers' Stronghold (avr) 229
Spectator Seating

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Spectator Seating (cmr) 356
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Land
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (rav) 282

Land

(CTRL to add secondary)

Creature

Qty: 35 Price: $202.43
Angel of Indemnity

Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Encore {6}{W}{W} ({6}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Angel of Indemnity (otc) 9
Angel of the Ruins

Flying When this creature enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Angel of the Ruins (brc) 68
Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (ddi) 51
Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Creature
Boromir, Warden of the Tower (ltr) 4
Brion Stoutarm

Lifelink {R}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Brion Stoutarm deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker.

Creature
Brion Stoutarm (lrw) 246
Cavalier of Dawn

Vigilance When this creature enters, destroy up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token. When this creature dies, return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Cavalier of Dawn (m20) 10
Claim Jumper

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then if an opponent controls more lands than you, repeat this process once. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Creature
Claim Jumper (otj) 8
Coercive Recruiter

Whenever this creature or another Pirate you control enters, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gains haste and becomes a Pirate in addition to its other types.

Creature
Coercive Recruiter (cmr) 169
Duergar Hedge-Mage

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Creature
Duergar Hedge-Mage (cmd) 195
Emeria Shepherd

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If that land is a Plains, you may return that nonland permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Creature
Emeria Shepherd (bfz) 22
Fear of Missing Out

When this creature enters, discard a card, then draw a card. Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks for the first time each turn, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, untap target creature. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Creature Enchantment
Fear of Missing Out (dsk) 316
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (c14) 35
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Flying, first strike If a source would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. If a source would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent half that damage, rounded up.

Creature
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight (c15) 219
Humble Defector

{T}: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of this creature. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Humble Defector (cmr) 184
Ingot Chewer

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Ingot Chewer (dd2) 45
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (ema) 17
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (ori) 21
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (mkc) 71
Luminous Broodmoth

Flying Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

Creature
Luminous Broodmoth (iko) 21
Magus of the Wheel

{1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature
Magus of the Wheel (c20) 156
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (m21) 27
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. {1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature
Mondrak, Glory Dominus (one) 23
Moonshaker Cavalry

Flying When this creature enters, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Moonshaker Cavalry (woe) 21
Selfless Savior

Sacrifice this creature: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Selfless Savior (m21) 36
Selfless Spirit

Flying Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Selfless Spirit (emn) 40
Serra Paragon

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."

Creature
Serra Paragon (dmu) 32
Skyclave Apparition

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Creature
Skyclave Apparition (znr) 39
Spitebellows

When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature. Evoke {1}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Spitebellows (c14) 181
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (c15) 82
Terror of the Peaks

Flying Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast. Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Creature
Terror of the Peaks (m21) 164
The Jolly Balloon Man

Haste {1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
The Jolly Balloon Man (dsk) 219
Venerable Warsinger

Vigilance, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of damage this creature dealt to that player.

Creature
Venerable Warsinger (stx) 246
Wispmare

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target enchantment. Evoke {W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Wispmare (lrw) 48
Witch Enchanter

Creature
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239
Zealous Conscripts

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Zealous Conscripts (avr) 166

Creature

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sorcery

Qty: 5 Price: $30.35
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (cmr) 12
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (c21) 86
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (c21) 168
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (cmr) 187
Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Vanquish the Horde (mid) 41

Sorcery

(CTRL to add secondary)

Enchantment

Qty: 8 Price: $130.58
Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (akh) 2
Bitter Reunion

When this enchantment enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. {1}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Enchantment
Bitter Reunion (bro) 127
Fanatical Devotion

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate target creature.

Enchantment
Fanatical Devotion (nem) 8
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (ddn) 24
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (wot) 9
Marshal's Anthem

Multikicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Creatures you control get +1/+1. When this enchantment enters, return up to X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of times this enchantment was kicked.

Enchantment
Marshal's Anthem (khc) 29
Muster the Departed

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Morbid — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Enchantment
Muster the Departed (mh3) 36
Sneak Attack

{R}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Sneak Attack (2xm) 145

Enchantment

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 5 Price: $75.55
Ao, the Dawn Sky

Flying, vigilance When Ao dies, choose one — • Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of nonland permanent cards with total mana value 4 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each permanent you control that's a creature or Vehicle.

Creature
Ao, the Dawn Sky (neo) 2
Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
Kami of False Hope

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Creature
Kami of False Hope (bok) 10
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation

Creature
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26
Rally the Ancestors

Return each creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile those creatures at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rally the Ancestors.

Instant
Rally the Ancestors (frf) 22

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck stats

56 pips - 38 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
27 pips - 25 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
13 mana - 11 cards
CategoriesQtyOdds
Click charts to focus on cards
Deck extras (0)
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs

Description

{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Framework"},{"insert":"\nBuilt for our own 4 player commander format:\n\nNo Tutoring outside of lands or tutors with a limited scope and/or innocuous targets."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#202124"},"insert":"Decks cannot contain 2 cards that can create an infinite loop with each other; 3+ card combos are fine."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" \n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#202124"},"insert":"The format is a battlecruiser format that leans heavily on synergy and big card draw/mill for advantage and often promotes longer games with more political opportunities."},{"insert":"\n \n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Deck – Hofri throws Fastball Specials"},{"insert":"\nI had endured a Boros deck since 2014, attempting to utilise "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brion Stoutarm"}},{"insert":" and sacrifice outlets to win through indirect damage and life gain. What I learned is Boros was tough to play without combos, it fails without a long-term plan and limited card advantage until 2021 and the introduction of Strixhaven.\n\nLorehold opened up new avenues for White/Red however I wanted to remain true to the build I had endured and wanted to keep "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brion Stoutarm"}},{"insert":" in the deck.\n \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hofri Ghostforge"}},{"insert":" with an instant speed sacrifice outlet allows you to recur the ETB effects of the various creatures in the decks to create card advantage and win through attrition. It has some reanimator built into the deck as it plays particularly well with Red's cheaper draw spells, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Magus of the Wheel"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Altar of Dementia"}},{"insert":" and being able to recur creatures again after Hofri does.\n \n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Political Reception"},{"insert":"\nBoros is the sad little EDH cousin that people rarely pay attention to, in our meta Boros was never big enough or had enough resources to really succeed at Battlecruiser mtg. This is no longer the case but the stigma still remains.\n\nI find people are not very wary of Hofri at all even after seeing the deck work, White/Red has a long way to come before it makes political waves at a table.\n\nThat said in game the deck can create many moments where people are left unhappy by Hofri's play; Hofri's ability coupled with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fanatical Devotion"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Selfless Spirit"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Selfless Savior"}},{"insert":" make the deck incredibly resilient and can turn "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wrath of God"}},{"insert":" into a one sided affair.\n \n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Favourite Plays"},{"insert":"\nHofri, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Coercive Recruiter"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zealous Conscripts"}},{"insert":" plus one of the free Sac Outlets, the Recruiter borrows a creature, you sacrifice the creature and Hofri makes a copy. A kill spell with a permanent copy.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sun Titan"}},{"insert":" and Plains, yep pretty much always. Sun Titan synergises with so many cards in the deck. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Magus of the Wheel"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wispmare"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Selfless Spirit"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Myriad Landscape"}},{"insert":" etc. None of this is unique to Hofri but the ability to recur the Titan as well makes him very powerful here.\nUsing "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Luminous Broodmoth"}},{"insert":" to get a third use out of non-fliers (like Sun Titan...) or keep Hofri on the board.\n \n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Where to? (Potential upgrades)"},{"insert":"\n\nSome Cards id use here if I had more copies:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Smothering Tithe"}},{"insert":" \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Deflecting Swat"}},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Solitude"}},{"insert":" \n"}]}
Unable to load comments
AutoNew CategoryMaybeboardSideboard