Balan/Astor Equipment Extravaganza

Commander / EDH Artifact Attach Equip Menace RW (Boros)

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Artifact (28)

• 1x Barbed Batterfist
• 1x Beamtown Beatstick
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Bladehold War-Whip
• 1x Brawler's Plate
• 1x Cathar's Shield
• 1x Chitinous Cloak
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Dragonwing Glider
• 1x Eater of Virtue
• 1x Fiendlash
• 1x Golem-Skin Gauntlets
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Hexgold Hoverwings
• 1x Javelin of Lightning
• 1x Kitesail
• 1x Piston Sledge
• 1x Scytheclaw
• 1x Slayer's Plate
• 1x Spidersilk Net
• 1x Sword of Vengeance
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thran Power Suit
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Two-Handed Axe
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Nahiri, the Unforgiving

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Angelic Gift
• 1x Michiko's Reign of Truth  ^Flip

Creature (18)

• 1x Akiri, Fearless Voyager
• 1x Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice
• 1x Bladegraft Aspirant
• 1x Bronzeplate Boar
• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden
• 1x Kazuul's Toll Collector
• 1x Kellan, the Fae-Blooded
• 1x Kemba, Kha Enduring
• 1x Lion Sash
• 1x Nahiri, Forged in Fury
• 1x Puresteel Paladin
• 1x Rabbit Battery
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Stone Haven Outfitter
• 1x Valduk, Keeper of the Flame
• 1x Vindictive Flamestoker

Land (38)

• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Furycalm Snarl
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 13x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 13x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1x The Fair Basilica
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag

Commanders (2)

Instant (5)

• 1x Acrobatic Maneuver
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Rebel Salvo
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Surge of Salvation

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Crash Through
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Furnace Reins
• 1x Wrath of God

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Sideboard

Artifact (8)

• 1x Boros Locket
• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Mirran Banesplitter
• 1x Mirran Bardiche
• 1x Ninja's Kunai
• 1x Ramosian Greatsword
• 1x Staff of the Storyteller
• 1x True-Faith Censer

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Conviction

Creature (7)

• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Heart-Piercer Manticore
• 1x Mirror-Style Master
• 1x Ogre-Head Helm
• 1x Oxidda Finisher
• 1x Reyav, Master Smith
• 1x Salivating Gremlins

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Against All Odds
• 1x Awe for the Guilds
• 1x Brilliant Restoration
• 1x Rile

Instant (2)

• 1x Pressure Point
• 1x Savage Beating

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Maybeboard

Artifact (6)

• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Maul of the Skyclaves
• 1x Plate Armor
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sword of the Realms  ^Flip
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver

Creature (5)

• 1x Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
• 1x Armored Skyhunter
• 1x Bruenor Battlehammer
• 1x Cloudsteel Kirin
• 1x Koll, the Forgemaster

Land (1)

• 1x Axgard Armory

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sigarda's Aid

Instant (1)

• 1x Resistance Reunited

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This deck is an equipment deck based on putting in lots of powerful equipment then slapping down your opponent with lots of swords and armour! The idea is to summon as many powerful equipment and then force them onto a wielder and abuse the equip costs to make them negligible.

Commander Choice:

• Balan, Wandering Knight is a powerful kitty that can and should suddenly end the game by grabbing all the equipment with her built in equip for 2. The rest of the description will be written with Balan in mind as the commander.
• Astor, Bearer of Blades is a great commander with an ability to fetch an equipment, and make all equipment costs 1 making him an extremely high value commander!
• Valduk, Keeper of the Flame has good potential, the similar idea being equip all the equipment then beat down with trample tokens. The downside is the equip costs of the equipment will be expensive unless you can abuse the wielding. I think he is better suited in my themed deck for him: Valduk, Wielder of Equipment

Ensuring Balan hits like a truck:

• Whispersilk Cloak, Rogue's Passage, Trailblazer's Boots exist to give the 'cant be blocked' ability. Pressure Point is in sideboard to remove a blocker.
• Trample can be given from Bronzeplate Boar, Brawler's Plate, Haunted Cloak, Sword of Vengeance, Crash Through. Rile is on the sideboard if more is needed.

• Trample can be also be given from Eater of Virtue if it has acquired it from a dead Bronzeplate Boar, Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden, Oxidda Finisher

• Colossus Hammer speaks for itself

• Grafted Exoskeleton is great for infect while expensive the tradeoff is that Balan will hit with double strike so only needs an additional +2 to total 10 infect.

Card Draw:

• Creatures such as Akiri, Fearless Voyager, Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden, Sram, Senior Edificer, Stone Haven Outfitter, Vindictive Flamestoker
• Instants and Sorceries such as Acrobatic Maneuver, Crash Through, Shelter, Angelic Gift, Expedite have good effects and draw more cards.

Wipes:

• Brilliant Restoration counters wipes - bring back all your equipment!
• Fumigate kills all creatures which you don't really care about as you just put in equipment

Possible weak cards currently:

• Vindictive Flamestoker doesn't do much unless he is in your opening hand.
• Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance I have never used its channel ability, but the card is shiny with cool art so it stays

Changes to make to deal with a silly Sliver deck:

• Furnace Reins -> Hivestone
• Dragonwing Glider -> Pyroclasm
• Michiko's Reign of Truth   -> Wildfire
• Lion Sash -> An-Zerrin Ruins
• Rebel Salvo -> Mangara, the Diplomat

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 23 - 7 Rares 25 - 4 Uncommons 20 - 10 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Elemental 3/1 R w/ Trample, haste, Heart-Piercer Manticore 4/3 W, On an Adventure, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Rebel 2/2 R, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure
Based on	Valduk, Wielder of Equipment xenomorphosis CAS