Clive, Ifrit's Dominant

Clive is a 5/5 for 6RR whose ETB can refill your hand based on red devotion, then transforms into Ifrit — a 9/9 Saga Demon that fights on chapter I and generates {R}{R}{R}{R} on chapters II and III, resetting back to Clive's front face at 3+ lore counters. The transform loop is the defining play: Ifrit's chapter II/III ritual effectively produces 4 red mana repeatedly while Clive's repeated ETB redraws your hand each cycle, creating a massive card-advantage and mana-engine loop that scales into combo territory in heavy-red devotion shells. The discard-then-draw on Clive entry is high-value in mono-red big-mana but requires devotion depth to pay off.

• The transform loop between Clive and Ifrit is a repeatable engine: activating Clive's {4}{R}{R} tap ability exiles and returns him transformed as Ifrit, then Ifrit's chapter III counter resets him back to Clive's front face, triggering the ETB draw again — this creates a multi-turn cycle of card draw and burst mana.

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• Ifrit's chapter II/III produces {R}{R}{R}{R} each trigger, which can effectively pay for significant portions of Clive's re-activation cost ({4}{R}{R}), making the loop partially self-funding in high-devotion red shells.

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• Clive's ETB discard is mandatory before the draw — if your hand is better than your expected devotion draw count, the ETB can be a net negative, so avoid activating the transform ability when already holding key cards unless devotion count is high.

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• EDHREC rank: #3,478