Aurelia's Angelic crusade

Commander / EDH Joe_Ken_

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Jitte and Generous gift —Sept. 1, 2019

I swapped Angel of Finality and Expedition Map out since I felt like the single graveyard hate angel wasn't too necessary since it hardly ever showed up if I ever needed it and wasn't able to be searched for and the map was removed since I never felt like I really needed it in the deck since the lands I would ever want to get out are normally plains, being Mistveil Plains and Sacred Foundry

Umezawa's Jitte was added since it can act as removal, life gain, or a combat pump so it gives a little more versatility to the deck.

Generous Gift was added as another pice for the sun forger package since it is a good new piece of removal that can hit plenty of troublesome targets.

Suns_Champion says... #1

I think my best suggestion would be the two Nehebs, Neheb, the Eternal and Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion for ramp and card selction based off combat.

April 9, 2019 9:39 p.m.

MrBronson says... #2

I see a few things that you could add in this. And possibly some you could remove. In order to play some of the bigger angels you might want to consider Quicksilver Amulet this will let you have more open mana and puts a creature out as if it had flash. Reya Dawnbringer is an amazing angel in EDH graveyard love on a body. Breath of Life is another card I would consider for the deck. With this color combo you might think about Burning Wish . This lets you keep more answers in the sideboard and having a sideboard. I would also consider removing Aura of Silence and putting Reforge the Soul in the sideboard.

April 25, 2019 3:37 a.m.

Joe_Ken_ says... #3

MrBronson I have considered putting in Reya Dawnbringer , but she has to survive an entire turn rotation before she can actually bring something back from the graveyard, which I find a little slow.

I do like the idea of Quicksilver Amulet since I may be able to put some of my angels out a little earlier, although I actually do pretty alright with mana ramp.

I should probably put in Reforge the Soul since another wheel would be a good idea. As for Burning Wish it seems like a good card, although I wouldn’t really know what other sorcery cards I could have in the side board for it.

I need to update the deck a little since I removed Helm of the Host to be a little more fair to my local playgroup since it is an infinite combo and all it did was get my Aurellia targeted down a lot in the early game when they knew I had it.

April 25, 2019 9:35 a.m.

multimedia says... #4

Consider Knight of the White Orchid replacing Map? You're playing both Foundry and Mistveil, lands that Orchid can search for and ramp. Also consider adding Aven Mindcensor in place of Burnished Hart or Gift of Estates ? I'm not a fan of Hart, it's too slow. In my opinion Orchid and Mindcensor are must haves for any heavy white deck.

May 11, 2019 2:39 a.m.

griffstick says... #5

May 11, 2019 3:01 a.m.

griffstick says... #6

May 11, 2019 3:03 a.m.

griffstick says... #7

Unless there is an artifact or Enchantment deck ruining games I'd cut Aura of Silence and add Berserkers' Onslaught

May 11, 2019 3:07 a.m. Edited.

lonesentinel says... #8

burning wish and all the wishes are banned in EDH sunforger shouldnt be in because you only have 7 instants to tutos

May 11, 2019 12:42 p.m.

Joe_Ken_ says... #9

lonesentinel I won’t be removing Sunforger because it pulls out the board wipe protection from my deck, being Teferi's Protection and Boros Charm

griffstick I don’t think I’ll be cutting my board wipes since I normally need to use one before starting to build up with the Angels since the deck is very mid-late game. As for Berserkers' Onslaught it seems pretty good and I could see having it as a side board to swap with Aura of silence when I’m facing more aggressive decks. I should probably find the Vandalblast I have sitting around and put it into the deck and maybe swap Return to Dust with Crush Contraband

multimedia I have Aven Mindcensor and I could see putting it in the deck for the anti searching and Knight of the White Orchid does seem like a good swap for my Expedition Map thanks for the suggestions.

May 11, 2019 2:25 p.m.

Psychotic Fury is great for this with your sunforger package. Card draw is hard to come by in boros and in my opinion useful cantrips are key to keeping tempo.

Other options along this thought process include Abeyance , Balduvian Rage , Expedite , Gorilla War Cry , and Hallowed Moonlight but I don't think they are quite as good here as psychotic fury.

June 10, 2019 12:55 p.m.

Joe_Ken_ says... #11

GhostChieftain

Those cards aren’t really ‘good’ for a sunforger package unless you’re running Feather, the Redeemed and you get those cards right back to you. While the combat trick draw a card is reliable just tutoring for Mask of Memory and attacking with Aurelia twice already just nets me two cards. The Sunforger stuff I use is just to have instant speed answers to stuff my opponents do like with Boros Charm and Teferi's Protection to avoid being wiped out or needing a piece of removal to get rid of something troublesome on the board, unataching it to draw a card and as a combat trick for 5 mana to use the ability and reequip it is really not that useful.

June 10, 2019 3:43 p.m.

Steelspike says... #12

Belbe's Portal , Cryptic Gateway and Dragon Arch could all help you drop your more mana intensive angels faster and at instant speed too.

July 18, 2019 4:34 a.m. Edited.

Demarge says... #13

Honestly the best way to try to up the power level of a boros commander would be to lean harder on the combo that commander is capable of and that'd be the Helm of the Host combo, Godo, Bandit Warlord could be rather good.

Settle the Wreckage is a sweeper you can add to a Sunforger package. Sigarda's Aid can help the equipment strategy, it turns your greeves into a spot removal protection spell, makes sunforger more a surprise, and lets helm of the host come in as a surprise win. Quietus Spike can very quickly chunk down an opponent's life total.

Angel of Serenity is a rather powerful angel (that gets really sweet with a helm of the host).

... Though honestly Kaalia of the Vast would greatly work better with an angel tribal theme. gameplay wise aurelia wants to be an infinite attack step deck.

August 16, 2019 1:40 a.m.

Joe_Ken_ says... #14

Demarge I’ve actually got most of those cards not including the spike so I could probably play around a little bit with those. The only cards I can really think of removing for those slot would probably just the the two Akromas since they only really serve as giant beat sticks in the deck.

August 16, 2019 11:30 a.m.

Joe_Ken_ says... #15

Demarge I also think maybe a useful swap out would be Linvala, Keeper of Silence sine it does add some control aspect into the deck like Angel of Jubilation does.

August 16, 2019 11:34 a.m.

Demarge says... #16

yeah linvala is pretty decent at stopping up some strategies. The skirmisher might be a better early cut than one of the akroma though.

Now Oketra's Monument is kind of good for mana ramp (these monuments proc their ability off any creature cast, not just the ones it discounts) and you can run cards like Kor Skyfisher or Whitemane Lion to abuse it and go wide on tokens, it gets extra weird when someone I suggest this to also has Divine Visitation (1 mana make an angel when the synergy is built). There is also Hazoret's Monument , while the discount pretty much only hits your commander having a loot engine can help out your minor reanimator strategy and smooth out your draws somewhat closer to that of blue. (it also works to turn land tax's land draws into non lands)

Oh yeah Thalia's Lancers is also a pretty decent tutor.

August 17, 2019 2 a.m.