Proof that they could have made good Boros commanders
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Posted on Nov. 21, 2015, 7:05 p.m. by MagicalHacker
Initiate Samsara of the Jeskai 
Legendary Creature - Bird Scout
Flying, prowess
Red spells you control have lifelink.
White spells you control can't be countered.
1/1
Sophronia, Boros Tactician 
Legendary Creature - Angel Knight
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent has more cards in their hand than you, draw a card. Otherwise, exile the top card of your library and you may play that card as though it were in your hand this turn.
2/2
Baruxar, the Furnace Shaper 
Legendary Artifact Creature - Artificer
Haste
, 
, Sacrifice another non-Equipment artifact: Return target Equipment from your graveyard to the battlefield.
, , Sacrifice an Equipment: Return target non-Equipment artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield.
4/3
Za'ah, Last of the Mekii 
Legendary Creature - Giant Nomad
Whenever you flip a coin or choose a target at random, shuffle your library, then reveal the top card of your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
4/5
The High Wall of Maithil
Legendary Creature - Wall
Defender
: Creatures you control with defender gain double strike until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control with defender is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.
7/7
I think building a wall deck thats not in green or black would be interesting. No way to attack because no Assault Formation I believe, so wincons would be interesting....
November 21, 2015 7:41 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #6
Well just turtling until you can burn every one else out should work. Either that or just voltroning some creature and protecting it until it can finish the job.
November 21, 2015 7:55 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #7
Just doing a pillow fort turtling kinda thing till you can burn everyone else out could work for the wall deck. That or Vent Sentinel
November 21, 2015 7:59 p.m.
FatherLiir says... #9
There still is Wakestone Gargoyle and Rolling Stones and Warmonger's Chariot
November 21, 2015 8:03 p.m.
MindAblaze says... #10
Za'ah is my favourite.
I have a bit of issue with the hybrid mana one. The deal with hybrid mana is that it should be possible to see any given abilities the card may have in either colour. First Strike will be much more prevalent than Vigilance and you will not see Lifelink on a W/R creature. I think that while the draw ability is cute, it doesn't fit into white's portion of the color pie (currently.) Red gets the "exile this card" recklessness of it...but most of white's draw is essentially a cantrip. I'd like to see something more within what white can do rather than what they could do.
November 21, 2015 8:21 p.m.
Huh, I had no idea that there were so many things that let walls attack...I think I need to make a walls deck...
November 21, 2015 8:47 p.m.
Serendipitous_Hummingbird says... #13
I feel like the initiate is a bit too strong. Prowess on a 2drop can rack up commander damage really quickly. Maybe if it didn't have evasion?
November 21, 2015 10:35 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #14
M a g i c a l H a c k e r, I do like these creatures very much, especially the wall, but why did you give this thread the title that you gave it? Do you believe that WotC has made very few really good red/white legendary creatures, thus far?
November 22, 2015 8:22 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #15
All of the red white legendaries are aggro based so far. There needs to be some level of diversity.
November 22, 2015 8:31 p.m.
Daedalus19876 says... #16
The cards you made tap into interesting design space, but most are quite broken for their CMC.
November 22, 2015 9:59 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #17
Dd, actually there are a few that I really like, notably Basandra, Battle Seraph and Brion Stoutarm, but currently, Boros is struggling to keep up with all the other two color combos in providing diverse options for deck archetypes to take advantage of, and I hate how they got such a boring designs in C15. I just wanted to prove that the designs are bad, not the colors.
November 23, 2015 12:37 a.m.
ComradeJim270 says... #18
I think the thread title's right on, though. Without considering the power level of these hypothetical creatures, they do seem to do W/R things. They're not really off-color, but do things existing Boros legends don't. WotC has kind of pigeon-holed Boros as only doing the things where both colors overlap completely, and isn't even that adventurous within that area.
What Boros needs is commanders that do stuff other than "punch people in the face". Sophronia, Boros Tactician would be a huge game-changer. The first ability fits white flavor, the second fits red, and Boros desperately needs a commander that generates card advantage.
Honestly, I'd have been excited just to see a commander that does the "exile the top card of your library" thing in some fashion. We don't even get that, which is sad.
MagicalHacker says... #2
Not balanced yet obviously but still interesting?
November 21, 2015 7:06 p.m.