Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno

The enters-trigger asks a mono-red devotion deck a question it does not usually get to answer with card advantage: discard your hand, then refill to whatever your board's red pips add up to. In a deck built to flood the battlefield with red permanents, that is a genuine draw seven; in anything less committed, it is a wheel that punishes you for the ambition. The rest of the card is a two-part payoff structure that rewards patience. The transform ability is sorcery-speed and expensive, a slow exile-and-return that flips into a Saga rather than a static threat. On the back, Ifrit reads its progress off lore counters: the first chapter fights a creature, and the repeated Brimstone chapter dumps four red mana into your pool while checking whether it has aged enough to flip back to the front and reset the whole loop. That flat four-red burst is the tell about who this card is for. It is not general-purpose ramp; it is a fixed payload aimed at big red mana sinks and X-spells, the kind of surplus that only earns its keep in a deck already built around a single explosive turn. The devotion draw scales with how thoroughly you have committed to red; the Brimstone refund is a set quantity you loop toward, and neither half rewards a deck that hedges its color.