Boros Aurelia

Commander / EDH Aggro RW (Boros)

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Creature (28)

• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Mila, Crafty Companion  ^Flip
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Venerable Warsinger
• 1x Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Tectonic Giant
• 1x Adriana, Captain of the Guard
• 1x Cavalier of Dawn
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Hofri Ghostforge
• 1x Fiendish Duo
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip
• 8x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (9)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Akroma's Will

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Winds of Abandon
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Light Up the Stage
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Doomskar
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Blasphemous Act

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This is a traditional Boros aggro deck. It is built to play at the highest power level that isn't cEDH. This deck aims to win through combat.

This deck's early game consists mostly of creatures that get you value (either mana or cards) through combat. Once you get to 4+ mana, the bigger creatures that pack a punch start coming down. This deck does not ramp into its commander like many other decks, rather Aurelia, the Warleader comes down when you've got a combat engine going to double it up. The smaller creatures of the deck scale to the late game with pump effects (Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Adriana, Captain of the Guard, Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice), double damage (Fiendish Duo, Akroma's Will), extra combats (Aurelia, the Warleader, Moraug, Fury of Akoum), and equipment (Sword of Feast and Famine, Sword of Fire and Ice, Sword of Hearth and Home).

A lot of the ramp in this deck comes through red sources like treasure generators (Professional Face-Breaker, Captain Lannery Storm, Dockside Extortionist) or ritual effects (Jeska's Will). We also play lands (Ancient Tomb, Myriad Landscape) and mana rocks that help. The most important way to draw cards in the deck is Mask of Memory (and by extension, Sword of Fire and Ice) as equipment are the easiest to tutor. Esper Sentinel can also be tutored by Imperial Recruiter and will draw you a lot of cards. Aside from these, we play wheels (Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Misfortune) and impulsive draw (Light Up the Stage, Tectonic Giant) to draw cards.

Currently, one of the most important cards in the deck is Imperial Recruiter. This card has so many different options to search. If you're in need of ramp it can tutor for one of our many treasure generators. If you need to draw cards it can tutor Esper Sentinel. If you need a threat it can tutor Serra Ascendant or Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice. If it's late game and you need to recur your threats you can tutor for Mila, Crafty Companion   so that you can get Lukka, Wayward Bonder going. (Those last few are why we play Imperial Recruiter and not Recruiter of the Guard as the latter misses them).

This deck has two combos in it, both unintentional- every card in the combo made it into the list as a standalone, powerful card. The first involves the combination of Smothering Tithe and a wheel effect like Wheel of Fortune. This can get you a fresh hand of cards and a lot of mana. When combined with Underworld Breach you can draw and cast your whole deck. Keep repeating until you get a Grand Abolisher on board, one-sided board wipe with Hour of Revelation and Boros Charm, then Teferi's Protection out once you've got enough creatures to kill next turn. The other combo involves Sword of Hearth and Home and our commander. Attach the sword to another creature, then attack with that creature and Aurelia. Aurelia will trigger for another combat, then you deal combat damage with the creature holding the sword. The sword trigggers and you blink Aurelia. You then move to the next combat. Since Aurelia was blinked, this is once again the first time she is attacking this turn, so you get infinite combats so long as you keep connecting with the sword.

This deck, if played carefully, can be resilient to the interaction. It not only plays a lot of ways to protect your board (Deflecting Swat, Teferi's Protection, etc.), but with the help of strixhaven plays a lot of ways to recur threats from the grave (Venerable Warsinger, Lukka, Wayward Bonder, Sun Titan) or make creatures harder to get rid of (Luminous Broodmoth, Hofri Ghostforge). The deck's main weakness is combo- it cannot win a race against fast combo decks (thus why it's not meant for cEDH). However if forced to play against combo, this deck does run plenty of interaction, so make sure to look for that when deciding to mulligan or not. This deck is not forgiving if you keep a bad hand, so mulligan wisely.

Please feel free to ask questions about performance, piloting, and card choices. Please give feedback if you have experience with decks like this.

Currently Testing: Akroma's Will

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Currently looking at: Ignite the Future Showdown of the Skalds

Top Ranked	Achieved #35 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #19 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aggro 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RW (Boros) 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Lukka, Wayward Bonder, Gold, Golem 3/3 C, Human 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure
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