Feather Redeems Boros in EDH [Primer]

Commander / EDH Combo Primer RW (Boros) Spellslinger Storm Tokens

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Type Subtype Rarity Color Latest set Latest block Name Board Converted cost Keyword Price Custom

Type Subtype Rarity Name Converted cost Price

Instant (33)

• 1x Ajani's Presence
• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Bandage
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Faith's Shield
• 1x Fall of the Hammer
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Intimidation Bolt
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Niveous Wisps
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Psychotic Fury
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Reckless Rage
• 1x Samut's Sprint
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sheltering Light
• 1x Soul's Fire
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Temur Battle Rage
• 1x Titan's Strength
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Wild Slash

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 3x Mountain
• 6x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Settle Beyond Reality
• 1x Winds of Abandon
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aria of Flame
• 1x Myth Realized
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Scroll of the Masters
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Thought Vessel

Creature (14)

• 1x Akroan Conscriptor
• 1x Akroan Crusader
• 1x Anax and Cymede
• 1x Burning Prophet
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1x Labyrinth Champion
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Ojutai Exemplars
• 1x Phalanx Leader
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Tenth District Legionnaire
• 1x Vanguard of Brimaz
• 1x Young Pyromancer

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The eternals are pouring through the Planar Bridge, and Feather, the Redeemed is having none of it. We’re gonna be casting a lot of spells and drawing a lot of cards, not typically a Boros thing to do, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The multiverse is at stake, and Boros is holding nothing back.

Feather is likely the absolute best Boros legend ever printed for EDH. The card advantage and utility she provides are unheard of in these colors, and opening up the Heroic mechanic to be abused is really nice. The goal of this deck originally was to be a cute cantrip based deck that never ran out of cards and got some value out of using different instant and sorceries repeatedly. Now, it's evolved into a powerhouse of a deck and I'm absolutely in love with it. The primer is going to be pretty detailed as far as I'm concerned, but if something appears to be missing please let me know. Without further ado, I give you Feather.

DISCLAIMER: I am not running Zada, Hedron Grinder or Mirrorwing Dragon. I do not like them. I do not want to run them. Thank you for understanding.

Feather, the Redeemed

The first thing to look at for the primer is, appropriately, Feather, the Redeemed . Feather cares specifically about two things. The first is that you're casting instants and sorceries repeatedly. Not just on your turn, on your opponent's turns too. This lends itself far more to instants than sorceries, but there are some powerful sorceries worth using. The second thing Feather cares about is that you target your own creatures. Immediately, this opens up the can of worms for the Heroic mechanic to fill out this deck's creature slots alongside some other value based creatures that want you to cast non-creature spells.

You may like this deck if:

1. You like casting a lot of spells. I mean a lot. On your turn, other people's turns, doesn't matter.
2. You like a deck centered around it's commander.
3. You like having a lot of decisions to make each game. The deck seems very simple, but the inner workings can get complex.
4. You like the Heroic mechanic.

You may NOT like this deck if:

1. You don't like your commander being key to a deck's success rate.
2. You don't like casting a lot of spells or doing much on other's turns.
3. You like attacking brainlessly. This deck generally wins via combat, but not always.
4. You like infinite combos. Sorry, none of that here. Plenty of people experimenting with Feather in cEDH though.

Card Draw

Feather lets us re-use any instant or sorcery that targets a creature, so naturally the first thing I looked at was cantrips, or cards that replace themselves. Not a ton of fantastic options in Boros colors, but every card in the deck doesn't need to be card advantage, and there's just enough good options to help the deck go smoothly each game.

• Niveous Wisps
• Crimson Wisps
• Defiant Strike
• Bandage
• Expedite
• Shelter
• Fists of Flame - a cantrip AND a pump spell? hell yeah

These just draw a card for mana. Neat. Use them when you have nothing better to do or when you need to start amassing card advantage. The most cast spells in the deck.

Keeping Feather Alive

The next section is about protecting Feather or any other creature you need from targeted removal, as they will get a lot of hate once you start churning through your deck.

• Gods Willing
• Apostle's Blessing
• Cloudshift
• Sheltering Light
• Shelter
• Faith's Shield
• Ajani's Presence

These cards protect Feather at instant speed, and most of them Scry 1 which is an added bonus. There is a small list of cards that can protect our entire board from board wipes.

• Boros Charm
• Teferi's Protection
• Eerie Interlude

Boros Charm just gives simple indestructibility to our things. Eerie Interlude makes out creatures not exist in the face of a board wipe and is re-usable, and Teferi's Protection is the best white card ever printed in Magic history so it has to be included.

Removal

There is actually a huge amount of versatile removal for these colors. I'll go over some of it here.

• Wear / Tear
• Fall of the Hammer
• Chaos Warp
• Council's Judgment
• Path to Exile
• Swords to Plowshares
• Soul's Fire
• Reckless Rage
• Winds of Abandon
• Generous Gift
• Oblation
• Pyroblast

Council's Judgment and Chaos Warp will deal with anything, period. Judgment even gets around hexproof and shroud. Path, Swords, and Fall of the Hammer are all basic creature removal. Hammer notably targets a creature of our own so we can reuse it. Soul's Fire can be used to kill anything that isn't an artifact, enchantment, or land, and targets our own creature for valuable reuse. Wear / Tear is pretty easy to understand. Winds of Abandon is a one sided board wipe or a two mana path; either one is fine. Generous Gift is, well, Beast Within. It's too good not to play.

What finally sold me on Oblation was that I play Arcane Denial in every blue deck I ever play. Giving my opponents two cards at the cost of removing something vital to their plan is fine; the upside of being able to use it on a token as a double cantrip is just a nice bonus. Pyroblast is just too good not to have with the prevalence of blue in both this format and my meta.

• Wrath of God
• Blasphemous Act

The deck also has a few mass sweepers. Every deck needs some. You won't always be ahead on board.

Other Useful Cards

This section is going to be all the instants and sorceries that have utility I didn't mention above.

• Intimidation Bolt
• Recruiter of the Guard
• Imperial Recruiter
• Wild Slash
• Dreadhorde Arcanist
• Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin

Intimidation Bolt just straight up stops our opponents from attacking us. Feather has four toughness, and will thus always survive the bolt.

Dreadhorde Arcanist is pretty good, it lets us reuse any instant and sorcery that doesn't target and lets us get target spells back that we discard to hand size or have to use at a bad time.

• Monastery Mentor
• Burning Prophet
• Young Pyromancer
• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Sentinel Tower
• Ojutai Exemplars
• Myth Realized
• Aria of Flame

These are the few cards we have that gain value without targeting them. They give us tokens, damage, and scrying to help find what we need and filter out what we don't. These are the real powerhouses of the deck because they function alongside the Heroic creatures to generate insane value. Sentinel Tower is a pure win condition and Aetherflux gives us life padding while providing inevitability. Ojutai Exemplars is mostly there to tap stuff down.

Aria of Flame is the most unfair card ever printed for this deck. I untapped with it and it had zero counters on it at the beginning of my turn and I won that turn. It is ungodly. It is disgusting. It is powerful. Please play it.

Mana Acceleration

This deck is rather mana hungry despite being able to function on low resources effectively. Here are some ways to cheat the one land per turn quota.

• Mox Opal
• Mox Diamond
• Mox Amber
• Sol Ring
• Boros Signet
• Fellwar Stone
• Talisman of Conviction
• Thought Vessel

Mana rocks are pretty self explanatory. Mox Opal functions because we have a ton of artifacts including it and the artifact lands. It isn't perfect, but it IS free.

• Sword of Feast and Famine
• Phyrexian Altar
• Smothering Tithe
• Primal Amulet  
• Runaway Steam-Kin

Altar gives us essentially all the mana we could ever desire if we have a token maker in play. Smothering Tithe is the unholy abomination that is white Rhystic Study . It's just broken. Good card is good, please play it in all your white decks. Primal Amulet is mostly there for the back side, but the cost reduction on the front half can be relevant.

Sunforger

I cut Sunforger. It's too mana intensive and not that good as a value engine. I'm inclined these days to agree with SunsChampion's view on the card. I have cut it for good.

The Heroes of This Deck

Finally, a section for the heroic creatures. This mechanic saw some standard play when it came out, but in this deck it is insanely good. Here they are.

• Labyrinth Champion
• Phalanx Leader
• Vanguard of Brimaz
• Anax and Cymede
• Akroan Conscriptor
• Akroan Crusader
• Tenth District Legionnaire

Vanguard and Crusader give us tokens on target, which is really nice for making blockers and going wide on offense. Anax and Cymede make going wide great, and allow us to pump and trample over our opponents. Phalanx Leader lets us go huge in the long run.

Akroan Conscriptor, however, is on a level of its own. We can steal creatures to attack with, we can steal creatures that would be attacking us and block with them on opponent's turns, and we can even just steal someone's blockers and open them up at an alpha strike from another player. By far my favorite interaction with Conscriptor, however, is Cloudshift . If you Cloudshift a creature you have borrowed, it then becomes yours until it leaves play. This is insanely powerful. Instead of borrowing that Ulamog, you could just have it forever. How nice.

Thank you for reading through this primer or just viewing the deck. If you have any feedback, comments, suggestions, snide remarks, jokes, memes, or anything else you want to comment about, please do! I'm always looking for new card ideas and suggestions.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 2 months ago
Date added	2 months
Last updated	5 hours
Exclude colors	UBG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	1/1 Elemental, 1/1 Goblin, 3/3 Elephant, None Treasure, 1/1 Soldier, 1/1 Monk, 2/2 Cat
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