"Purphy is back!"

"Purphy is back!"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Purphoros is back and he means business. The god is so strong that he allows you to bring ridiculous monsters to the battlefield. He is the new sneak attack!!!!

Let us look at the card a little bit. Purphoros , Bronze-Blooded is a Legendary Enchantment creature that costs 4 mana of any color and a red.

He is a 7/6 god that also happens to be Indestructible. And you need to have a devotion of 5 to Red to make him a creature. And by the time that you cast him at 5 mana what are the odds that you have a lot more than 5 devotion? A big probability if you have playing red.

He also gives your other creatures haste. While this haste does not affect him , in most cases it does not need to. At what is important are the creatures that come into play on your turn.

And with activated ability which virtually makes him a Sneak Attack on a God. So for 3 mana you can put a red creature or an artifact creature from your hand onto the battlefield. In the EDH setting I am excited at the idea of casting a Wurmcoil Engine or Blightsteel Colossus. And things with ETB triggers like a Bogardan Hellkite or Meteor Golem! 

Purphoros is good in a pinch as for that low cost you can have instant blockers or in the case of Bogardan Hellkite or Meteor Golem even take out another of those attackers.

While like Sneak Attack this also has a drawback of the creature being sacrificed at the end of the next turn....well. WurmCoil Engine leaves 2 3/3  tokens behind. And Blightsteel just gets shuffled to your deck. If you included Purphy in a Daretti deck you can have the Wurm Coil back from your GY and well have something to search for your Blightsteel as well.

And I feel like you can include Purphy here in the 99 of a Daretti deck or have him exchange places with the Goblin Artificer as well for a different kind of game.

I am looking forward to getting him soon.