Gisela, Impulsive Tutor of Plains

Commander / EDH* Aggro Angels RW (Boros)

TylerChester92

01 Angels (10)

• 1x Angel of Invention
• 1x Archangel of Tithes
• 1x Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice
• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Bruna, the Fading Light *f-pre*  ^Meld
• 1x Firemane Avenger
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade *f-pre*  ^Meld
• 1x Herald of the Host
• 1x Serra Avenger
• 1x Serra's Guardian

Board Wipes (3)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Solar Blaze
• 1x Wave of Reckoning

Card Advantantage (8)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Vance's Blasting Cannons  ^Flip
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Color-Fixing (10)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Damage Prevention (7)

• 1x Acolyte's Reward
• 1x Boros Fury-Shield
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Divine Deflection
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Vengeful Archon

Deal Double that Damage (4)

• 1x Angrath's Marauders
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Furnace of Rath

Good Stuff (7)

• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

Protection (7)

• 1x Archangel Avacyn  ^Flip
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Legion's Initiative
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Ramp (16)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Boreas Charger
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Recurrsion (4)

• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Sun Titan

Removal (5)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Justice Strike
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

The Basics (19)

• 5x Mountain
• 14x Plains

Tutoring (8)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Thalia's Lancers

Commander (1)

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Board Whipes (1)

• 1x Winds of Abandon

Double Damage (8)

• 1x Archetype of Aggression
• 1x Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Kumano, Master Yamabushi

Prevent Damage (3)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Magebane Armor
• 1x Purity

Prevent and Redirect Damage (5)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Divine Deflection
• 1x Spitemare
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Truefire Captain

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Boros Angel Aggro!

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This deck hinges around white's ability to tutor lands and red's "Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn," ability, which I call impulse, to make up for the Boros colors' lack of ramp and card draw.

Land tutoring:

• Basic Land Tutoring: Land Tax , Thawing Glaciers , Thaumatic Compass  

• Plains Tutoring: Endless Horizons , Tithe , Knight of the White Orchid

• Tutoring Any Land: Weathered Wayfarer , Expedition Map

Gaining Card Advantage:

• Draw: Smuggler's Copter , Mind Stone , & Hedron Archive .

• Impulse: Chandra, Pyromaster , Outpost Siege choosing Kahns & Vance's Blasting Cannons  .

• Rummaging: Nahiri, the Harbinger & Wheel of Fortune .

Tutoring the Land Tutors:

• Land Tax & Endless Horizons: Idyllic Tutor , Enlightened Tutor , & Gamble .

• Weathered Wayfarer & Knight of the White Orchid: Imperial Recruiter , Recruiter of the Guard , & Gamble .

• Thawing Glaciers: Expedition Map & Gamble .

If you have either Land Tax or Endless Horizons already and you draw Enlightened Tutor, use it to find Pyrohemia which becomes a great mana sink for unused at the end of turns. Also, never take out to many of your plains from the deck with Endless Horizons because if someone destroys/exiles it you loose the ability to get back those plains in exile.

All of this tutoring will not only help your board state, but it will also this your deck until only the good stuff is left so that while you might not have as much card draw as decks that can use and for card draw, it won't matter because your draws will be more consistent and valuable than other's.

For extra help ramping up on mana you can use Chandra, Torch of Defiance , Sol Ring , Mana Vault , and Mana Crypt help. When Gisela is on the field, since she prevents half of the damage rounded up, the last two become broken because Mana vault has 0.5 damage, rounded up to 1 damage prevented, so it does no damage, and then Mana Cryp has 1.5 damage, rounded up to 2 damage prevented, so it does one damage.

Once you have established your mana base for any given game, it's all about playing angels, and using equipment to protect them and sling instants with Sunforger , which can be tutored by Steelshaper's Gift & Gamble .

Protecting the angels: Lightning Greaves , Swiftfoot Boots , Boros Charm , Teferi's Protection , Archangel Avacyn  , & Avacyn, Angel of Hope .

Targets for Sunforger: Deflecting Palm , Boros Charm , Teferi's Protection , Enlightened Tutor , Swords to Plowshares , Crib Swap , Oblation , Return to Dust , & Chaos Warp .

Try not to sunforge Return to Dust if you can because you get more value from that card as a sorcery.

When fighting a deck that utilizes artifacts you can effectively wipe their board using Consulate Crackdown . For decks that utilize indestructible decks you can use Hour of Devastation . As a general multi-purpose wrath Austere Command .

Late game, if you keep some plains in your hand when possible, you can play them after casting Emeria Shepherd to get back any permanents that have been destroyed.

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This is a deck that I had for a long time and it was just okay, and I refined it based off of the ideas from Jimmy & Josh in: Big thanks to them for helping me put this deck over the top.

Top Ranked	Achieved #60 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UBG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	109
Avg. CMC	3.49
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Servo 1/1 C, Treasure
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