Boros Challenger

Creature — Human Soldier

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)

{2}{R}{W}: Boros Challenger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (29)

Skysurfer on Boros Modern Soldier

1 year ago

From what I see, your knights theme is too small to properly capitalize off of history of benalia, and Nadar + thalia counteract or dont contribute at all to your game plan. I think taking out nadar and thalia for 2 more Boros Challenger and adding in a few Legion Warboss would benefit you greatly. If your looking to swing wider as well, it would probably help if you took out your monks of the open hand for Legion Loyalist and finding a way to squeeze in 1 more Legion's Landing  ^Flip. Despite my comment earlier on not capitalizing on History of Benalia, its still a solid 2 of in the deck for its ability to assist you in going wide, but i guess just dont get too caught on the knights part of it because your board should be taller with mentor, wide and constantly swinging rather than just wide and waiting for benalia trigger. 1 or 2 Chance for Glory, while risky would be extremely spicy and could easily close you out some games with how aggressive your wide board is; ive run it in general rokhiric before and it is extremely useful for aggressive go wide decks. if you were to add it i would cut a paladin class and/or a fiendslayer paladin, but thats just like, my opinion man.

BlackoutX on RBW humans (aggro)

3 years ago

caio2201

First of all I call this deck humans is because the most key cards to this deck are the humans, the knight tribal is just used to push it to be faster and add an extra level of protection to my creatures.

Everything mentioned I have tried in the deck has ended up being to slow, or simply didn't fit the aggro I was going for with this deck. Giant Killer was a hard cut but I ended up cutting it because I wanted the consistency in the main board, its in my side board for a reason. The skyknight helps with pushing in that extra bit of damage, I have won games with just skyknight and an Embercleave, I will admit it needs support to be good and it is the card I'm most iffy on but its proven useful in games for its evasion. General's Enforcer isn't very helpful in this deck, since I am only running Kudro as a legendary human and since I would only ever run Tajic, Legion's Edge in this deck along with Kudro it still doesn't quite get there. Boros Challenger is a great card that I wanted to run but since I wasn't sure where to fit it, I kind of just let it sit.

The land base is something that I wasn't sure what to do with for a long time so I just kept trying different things till I ended up with this; triomes are to slow for an aggro deck so I wouldn't run them (unless in a commander/4+ color deck). when I was running 12 shock lands I ended up just dying to them, so I cut down on them ever so slightly.

Note: I am aware of how winota works and I have a deck built around the card.

caio2201 on RBW humans (aggro)

3 years ago

This is more of a knight tribal than a humans... If you want to lean more on the human side of things, go for General's Enforcer, Tajic, Legion's Edge Judith, the Scourge Diva and this kind of stuff. The Enforcer is low key one of the best cards of the deck. Giant Killer is also a great option to have some more removal and is just a decent card for the stats, quite easy to get it to be a 2/3 or even more with Tajic, it should be in the main deck ALWAYS, since this deck is really light on interaction. I really dont like Hero of the Nyxborn in this deck, it lacks synergy, if all you want is two humans for one body, there are way better options out there Skyknight Vanguard is cute and all, it can make you some wide boards (not probable tough, we all know it is removal bait) but even if it does, there is a HUGE problem with it. It doesnt create humans or knights, and a bunch of 1/1 just dont cut it in this format. If you are thinking about it for a Winnota combo, just dont. The token it creates does NOT trigger Winnota when it is created, because it doesnt techncally "attack" on that combat, it is created already attacking For the manabase... IMO just dont get fancy... 12 shock lands, a couple of triomes if you want and fill the rest with basics, this deck doesnt want to lose a single turn to tapped mana, SPECIALLY during the first 3, so I think that Passage is just a waste, and helps decks that want to use your grave for something (not common, but it is just a drawback). The Tournament Grounds lose a lot of value if you are not full on knights, so I cut them in my list Other two cards I would suggest you look into are Boros Challenger and Whisper Squad, they may look like not that much, but they are surprisingly helpful

Boroswins on Boro's Standard

4 years ago

I was originally going to say yes, but that guildmage saved a lot of damage in two games by tapping down a big attacker a lot, and enabling Nahiri, Storm of Stone . I might drop the Boros Challenger since most of the creatures in your deck already have two power, or at most you will get one trigger.

Also, Legion Warboss generally doesn't add much value in my experience. The one goblin it makes often gets chump blocked, then he gets removed. I would say overall: -3 Legion Warboss and -3 Boros Challenger for +1 Tajic and Aurelia, and +4 Hero of Precinct One .

I feel Like Solar Blaze should be a 3-of in Side Board, not a 1-of in main. Given your creature costs, do you often find it is killing them? Deafening Clarion might get you further, giving you a lot of lifelink and a small scale boardwipe if needed. I might do -1 Solar Blaze and -1 Response / Resurgence for +2 Deafening Clarion in mainboard to keep up with some options.

Lastly, this deck needs some deck filtering/card draw. I recommend 3x Revitalize in the Sideboard against Aggro to keep ahead. I also recommend 2x Light Up the Stage . I would remove 1x Mountain and 1x Plain, and go 22 Lands. This deck tops out at 4, so you don't need a lot of mana late game. If that makes it harder to use the Guildmages, then maybe you drop them for some similar prison effect that is less mana intensive, like Prison Realm (which I like for the Scry). As you develop your rares, I would drop the Nahiri's for Experimental Frenzy or Chandra, Fire Artisan . Again, no more running out of gas.

Note on Sideboarding: I know sideboarding can be a pain, but with White, you have the best sideboard color in the game, and learning to use it can be very important. If you just do 1-ofs in Arena, I guess Nvm. If not, get some Disenchant and Revitalize in the sideboard, along with Lava Coil to start.

Hope this helps!

Fadedechos on Boros Feather

4 years ago

I'm about to make something similar, love the idea of boris with hero of P 1 after putting together a boros feather deck.

One suggestion would be to replace Clamor Shaman. I think Truefire Captain may be fun, Swiftblade Vindicator can become awesome with pump spells. Boros Challenger can mentor up your tokens as well as swiftblade. Justice Strike can make enemies off themselves, Assure / Assemble give a counter. All of these hit Hero of P1's token generation machine. Fun stuff!

itsbuzzi on Trying to make a Boros …

5 years ago

For that price perhaps go some sort of budget boros aggro. I've seen some Boros aggro at my LGS and it runs fairly well with Boros Challenger as you have mentioned. For faster wins perhaps add Chance for Glory and then cast Response / Resurgence . Chance for Glory can give your creatures indestructible for the rest of the game which can help with boardwipes. If the deck is aggro enough you shouldn't need to worry about the other half of Chance. Legion Warboss can fit in and if Chance is too scary for the negative side you could just run Make a Stand to get around boardwipes. I run a deck with some of these features and they work fairly well. I love Deafening Clarion as well.

Arcaneful on Trying to make a Boros …

5 years ago

PlatinumOne

Gotcha. I'll use my playset I just found of Theater of Horrors for another deck then haha.

I've been scouring for awhile tonight and found a few cards of note that might be fun the I could maybe get some playsets for under $20.

Swiftblade Vindicator and Legion Warboss

As some midrange mentor pay offs.

Card draw in Risk Factor ?

Maybe upping some removal in cards such as Justice Strike ?

Boros Challenger 's for some early game presence?

Integrity / Intervention for the hard aggro match ups?

These are just a few cards I've found.

Brainpolice2 on Multicolored Glass Aggro

5 years ago

Interesting take. I have a similar but different Mardu aggro/tokens deck, but I ended up going much heavier on white and red, and using cards like Tajic, Legion's Edge , Boros Challenger and Swiftblade Vindicator for 2 drop aggro/utility.

I also only have Glass of the Guildpact as my "maybeboard" card. I see a lot of people running Benalish Marshal in this deck but it's kind of color restrictive for a multicolor deck. Glass of the Guildpact is a bit cheaper and to the point.

On the other hand, I have four Unclaimed Territory in the land section, and that is very helpful with mana fixing and curiously missing from your deck here. Unbreakable Formation also makes a good sideboard card at the least due to this type of deck's weakness to removal and burn, and the issue of getting through blockers. I actually ended up mainboarding it because of this.

The other major weakness of this type of deck seems to be a lack of card advantage or draw engine. There isn't a whole lot I thought of to address that other than a few sideboard options like Consecrate / Consume and Priest of Forgotten Gods .

Here is/was my take on Mardu Humans/Tokens: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-02-19-tajics-legion/