At a glance
- Format: Standard Brawl
- Commander: Elspeth, Storm Slayer
- Colors: White (W)
- Archetype: Mono-White tokens/go-wide aggro
- Power tier: competitive
- Standard Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Mono-White go-wide aggro built around the #1 Standard Brawl commander (~25-28% of the meta). NOTE: Elspeth, Storm Slayer’s color identity is mono-WHITE ({3}{W}{W}), so despite the ‘Boros’ brief this is necessarily a single-color deck - RW is illegal under her. Her static doubles every token you create (a built-in Anointed Procession), her +1 makes a Soldier (doubled to two), her 0 is a flying anthem (+1/+1 + evasion to the whole board), and her -3 kills anything MV3+. Game plan: flood the board turns 1-4 with cheap creatures and token-makers, deploy a doubler (Elspeth or Exalted Sunborn) so every Kyoshi Warriors / Release the Dogs / Mighty Mutanimals / Hop to It prints double, then overrun with anthems (Suki, Gallant Fowlknight, Dauntless Veteran, Choco/Mog) and finish through the air with Elspeth’s 0 or the Angel top-end. Tight white removal suite (Swords-effects, Banishing Light, Stasis Snare, Sheltered by Ghosts) keeps the curve clear.
Upgrade path
MYTHIC CRAFTS: Elspeth, Storm Slayer x1 (commander, mandatory) = 1 new mythic wildcard. Running mythic-craft count for THIS deck: 1. Every other mythic is OWNED (own>=1, free, zero wildcards): Exalted Sunborn (own1), Delney, Streetwise Lookout (own1), Lyra Dawnbringer (own1). ZERO new rare crafts of any kind - all rares are owned: Skyknight Squire (own1), Spellbook Vendor (own4), Suki Courageous Rescuer (own2), Regal Caracal (own1), Abandoned Air Temple (own2), Capital City rare? (uncommon, own3), Starting Town (own4), plus owned uncommon/common utility lands. LANDS: owned nonbasics (Command Tower own4, Rumble Arena own4, Abandoned Air Temple own2, Capital City own3, Secluded Courtyard own2, Starting Town own4, Adventurer’s Inn own1, Evolving Wilds own7) + Plains basics only; no new rare-land crafts. FUTURE UPGRADES once Mik has more rare wildcards: craft a white fixing/utility rare land tier and consider mythic Ocelot Pride (a second cat/token doubler that also pumps the team) as the next mythic spend to raise the ceiling further. Mechanics note: Dragonback Lancer’s mobilize tokens and Choco/Mog’s anthem both scale hard once a token doubler is online.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
Deck
1 Healer's Hawk
1 Flowerfoot Swordmaster
1 Momo, Friendly Flier
1 Leonin Vanguard
1 Novice Inspector
1 Resolute Reinforcements
1 Invasion Reinforcements
1 Helpful Hunter
1 Dawnwing Marshal
1 Skyknight Squire
1 Inspiring Overseer
1 Prideful Parent
1 Dauntless Veteran
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 Spellbook Vendor
1 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
1 Kyoshi Warriors
1 Mighty Mutanimals
1 Gallant Fowlknight
1 Serra Angel
1 Regal Caracal
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
1 Exalted Sunborn
1 Elspeth's Smite
1 Valorous Stance
1 Banishing Light
1 Stroke of Midnight
1 Sheltered by Ghosts
1 Stasis Snare
1 Hop to It
1 Release the Dogs
1 United Front
1 Summon: Choco/Mog
1 Command Tower
1 Rumble Arena
1 Abandoned Air Temple
1 Capital City
1 Secluded Courtyard
1 Starting Town
1 Adventurer's Inn
1 Evolving Wilds
14 Plains
1 Emeritus of Truce
1 Voice of Victory
1 Ajani, Caller of the Pride
1 Honored Knight-Captain
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal maxes out Elspeth, Storm Slayer’s token-doubling: it keeps the wide, cheap creature base and adds the best legal doublers/payoffs (Exalted Sunborn and Cosmogrand Zenith stack with her static, Warren Warleader and Resplendent Angel snowball armies, Caretaker’s Talent turns tokens into cards and an anthem). Premium removal (Get Lost, Sheltered by Ghosts, Stasis Snare) and Fountainport round it out while staying mono-white for color-identity legality. Top craft priorities: Cosmogrand Zenith (mythic), Warren Warleader (mythic), Resplendent Angel (mythic), Caretaker’s Talent (rare), Get Lost (rare).
Crafts to reach the ideal: 7 (2 mythic, 4 rare, 1 uncommon)
- Mythic: Resplendent Angel, Warren Warleader
- Rare: Caretaker’s Talent, Enduring Innocence, Fountainport, Get Lost
- Uncommon: Nurturing Pixie
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
Deck
1 Savannah Lions
1 Healer's Hawk
1 Flowerfoot Swordmaster
1 Leonin Vanguard
1 Novice Inspector
1 Helpful Hunter
1 Dawnwing Marshal
1 Honored Knight-Captain
1 Inspiring Overseer
1 Dauntless Veteran
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
1 Gallant Fowlknight
1 Spellbook Vendor
1 Nurturing Pixie
1 Prideful Parent
1 Skyknight Squire
1 Mighty Mutanimals
1 Exalted Sunborn
1 Cosmogrand Zenith
1 Warren Warleader
1 Resplendent Angel
1 Caretaker's Talent
1 Regal Caracal
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
1 Serra Angel
1 Enduring Innocence
1 Resolute Reinforcements
1 Invasion Reinforcements
1 Hop to It
1 Elspeth's Smite
1 Valorous Stance
1 Sheltered by Ghosts
1 Stasis Snare
1 Get Lost
1 Emeritus of Truce
1 Command Tower
1 Fountainport
1 Adventurer's Inn
1 Secluded Courtyard
1 Capital City
1 Starting Town
17 Plains
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