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I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!

---Macho Man Randy Savage

Welcome to the #1 Brion Stoutarm deck on TappedOut! I wanted to make an EDH deck that was different then anything I've seen in the past and I absolutely love Brion Stoutarm . Don't forget to +1 if you like the deck and the primer!

Brion allows for a grindy sort of playstyle where you stay ahead of your opponents through good creatures and gaining life for value until you arm one of your nukes and just disintegrate an opponent.

Lifelink means that we have the potential to gain a decent amount of life through attacks and blocks and we have a number of ways to capitalize on it but the true power of this deck comes from Brion's activated ability. For just and tapping Brion we can sack another creature to deal damage to target opponent equal to the sacrificed creatures power. The important thing to note here is that Brion himself deals the damage which means we have the potential to one shot our opponents and gain tons of life in the process!

You will enjoy this deck if:

  • You want to play an interesting commander that is still very powerful

  • You want to play a Boros commander deck that doesn't revolve around combat damage

  • You enjoy gaining life in commander

  • You enjoy big flashy plays

That being said you might not enojoy playing Brion if:

  • You hate playing Boros in EDH

  • You want to play a deck with tons of infinite combo potential

  • You're trying to build a tier one competitive edh deck

Life gain is a strong subtheme to the deck. Wall of Reverence , Sunscorch Regent , Baneslayer Angel , and of course Brion Stoutarm himself all let us gain tons of life throughout a game and card like Serra Avatar , Cradle of Vitality , and Phyrexian Processor let us capitalize on it. Another big strength is just in how hard it can be to deal with Brion's way of getting in damage. Pillowforting means nothing when you have a Serra Avatar and Illusionist's Bracers to fling a 40/40 at two people and gain 80 life! This deck is also fairly resilient to board wipes since we have a decent recursion package and ways to protect our board.
The biggest counter to a Brion Stoutarm deck is an opponent with hexproof. Cards like Leyline of Sanctity , Orbs of Warding , and Aegis of the Gods prevent us from flinging any of our creatures at that opponent. I'm running a decent package of removal to address these cards ( Chaos Warp , Leave No Trace , Return to Dust , Swords to Plowshares ) but if someone in your playgroup tries to counter you I would recomend upping the removal package. The second thing that this deck struggles with is counter magic. Our best answer to this obviously is Grand Abolisher . For a while I ran Wild Ricochet and you could run cards like Fork or Increasing Vengeance but my playgroup doesn't countain any dedicated counter spell decks. If you are more worried about conterspells try adding more cards like Conqueror's Flail . Of course you should always watch blue players and pay attention to the mana that they leave up as well.
So this deck really revolves around Brion. It's important to know when you're safe to play him and when to really make yourself known as a threat. We can break down the general strategy into three parts, early, mid, and late game.

Early Game Show

Mid Game Show

Late Game Show

Recursion Show

Life Gain and Ways to Use It Show

Damage Doublers Show

Removal Show

Tutors Show

Beaters and Top Fling Targets Show

Protection Show

Card Draw Show

Miscellaneous Show

This panel contains all of the cards that have been recently added to the deck and are currently undergoing testing. These cards have not been added to the primer yet but when I decide on if they will stay permanently I will remove them from this list and add descriptions and synergies in the primer.

Neheb, the Eternal - Neheb seems great for generating a ton of extra mana. I'm expecting him to really shine with all of the high cmc cards in this deck.

The alter I'm using was created by my friend Jordan Howell. He is a really talented artist so check out his Instagram if you're interested! https://www.instagram.com/jrdnhwll/
Threaten Effects- This is the most common suggestion players give me by far when they look at this deck. Stealing your opponents creatures and Fling ing them for value is certainly satisfying and has the potential to blow one of your opponents out but its just not reliable enough to include in this deck. That being said variance is the spice of life when it comes to commander so if you decide to brew up a Threaten Brion deck definitely leave a link in the comments so I can check it out!

Grafted Exoskeleton -we only have to fling for 10 since Brion Stoutarm deals the damage when flinging a creature. This is a card I've been on the fence about because I want this deck to be enjoyable for me and not ridiculously annoying to play against. I've actually removed this card now but if your play group is cool with infect or if you just want the deck to be as good as possible you should definitely add it.

Angelic Renewal - with a sac outlet and Sun Titan it creates an infinite loop. I'm just not trying to run any infinite combos in this deck but it's a viable strategy for sure.

Sunforger - Awesome card. I originally had a better package of instants and ran Sunforger for a while but I just don't think it's good enough in this deck. If you want to run it in your own deck I'm sure it could be a powerhouse card though if you build around it!

User Suns_Champion has an awesome budget friendly Brion build that revolves around playing cheap, high power creatures that have, "sacrifice this creature on the next endstep" clauses. His deck swings with those creatures and then flings them through Brion for extra damage. He is also using threaten effects as his removal which is something that is totally viable but I personally avoided in my version. If you're interested in building your own Brion Stoutarm deck definitely don't miss out on his deck!

Bad Luck Brion

Commander / EDH Suns_Champion

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This deck was actually featured in an MTGGoldfish Commander Clash so if you want to see the deck in action, and check out an awesome MTG YouTube channel, check it out

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---Macho Man Randy Savage

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Well the time has finally come for me to write up my first primer! Please continue to leave any advice about the deck, the primer, or our lord and savior Randy Savage and don't forget to +1!

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Date added 7 years
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

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41 - 0 Rares

20 - 0 Uncommons

6 - 0 Commons

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Avg. CMC 3.92
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