First printed in Theros Beyond Death (2020)
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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.: 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.
7/6
- Illustrated by
- Eric Deschamps
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (13)
- The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It’s always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It’s always a creature spell while it’s on the stack.
- Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.
- Counters put on a God remain on it while it’s not a creature, even if they have no effect.
- When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
- As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won’t be counted when determining this.
- Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it’s still on the battlefield at that time.
- If you put an Aura on an opponent’s permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
- If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.
- Colorless and generic mana symbols (
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- The abilities of Gods function as long as they’re on the battlefield, regardless of whether they’re creatures.
- If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
- If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won’t rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
430 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Breath of Fury + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Krenko, Mob Boss + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Skirk Prospector
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Temur Sabertooth
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Fanatic of Rhonas + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Temur Sabertooth
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Combat Celebrant + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Sword of Hearth and Home
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Breath of Fury + Otharri, Suns' Glory + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Hullbreaker Horror + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Godo, Bandit Warlord + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Sword of Hearth and Home
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Feldon of the Third Path + Illusionist's Bracers + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Worldgorger Dragon
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Circle of Dreams Druid + Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded + Temur Sabertooth