"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" -Shakespeare

Adapted from many Mono Fire Pathfinder Lists around, not trying to pretend otherwise. Just wanted to add a few tweaks for flavor/personal touch and to experiment more with the “harpy strike mechanic” at my most recent local Cornerstone. The deck wound up getting top 8 on 8/15/26 which I was very happy about! I made the title to this deck before playing so it would have been cool to win the Cornerstone with the image of the bloody crown but alas I got eaten by grey wolves instead…

Overall game plan for this deck stays about the same. Pathfinder wants to solidify zipping around the realm reliably getting to 5-6 mana. A quick note to new Pathfinders that I learned to be helpful is to be a little patient and try trading up/waiting to strike but still use your mana. This isn’t just a turn your minions sideways kind of deck and you want to spread out your threats across the realm to help protect against board wipes. I really think airborne fire minions are currently under appreciated! Their diagonal movement particularly after a harpy flight can really put your opponent on the back foot.

Here are a few other things that I added/observed.

Lethal/“Harpy Strike” (trinkets and sword /crown to boost power)

-Like others I thought the courts would impact the meta more severely than I witnessed across my 6 games. At least so far maybe people don’t have access to the courts or simply aren’t building around them (yet). I thought a lot more exceptional “low to the ground” minions would be played so a deck like mine would take advantage of that and out value them by utilizing the lethal mechanic and the “harpy strike”. One of the LGS plays a lot of fire or splash fire so I was surprised to not see that and instead faced majority of earth. Askelon Pheonix was one sad fire bird :(

”Giants Package”

-I am not sure about this overall. Siege Giant looks great and having them possibly have charge with Balor getting charge looks very strong. At least in my 6 games Siege Giant didn’t make much of an impact compared to my other charge/strike minions. Balor did some work but I am thinking about trying a “Demon Package” instead with Fallen Angels for more Airborne support. Do you like to run the Giant package in your mono fire lists?

Root spiders

-I guess mono fire has to have some weaknesses but this little guy can stop us in our tracks completely. If you are in a heavy earth meta not sure how to stick in enough casting ability for future lava flows. Any ideas would be appreciated. Can anything else in Pathfinder lists stop them? Splash more air mobility? Risks threshold screw though.

Silver Bullet over Tool Box?

Not sure but maybe future iterations use exceptional spells for more diversity/aoe capability?

RoM

-With so few spell casters maybe RoM isn’t even worth running? Pathfinder doesn’t seem to be around the realm to use this and may substitute for Flame of the First One.

Let me know your thoughts, particularly if you are a Pathfinder enjoyer as well.

-Telos

Heavy is the Crown. Top 8 Cornerstone 8/15/26

@Telos