At a glance
- Format: Standard Brawl
- Commander: Aurelia, the Warleader
- Colors: White / Red (WR)
- Archetype: Boros aggro/equipment
- Power tier: mid-high
- Standard Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Low-curve Boros equipment-aggro: flood cheap bodies and “Job select” Equipment that bring their own creature tokens, suit up, and swing wide. Aurelia tops the curve as the payoff — flying, vigilance, haste means she connects the turn she lands, and her first-attack-each-turn trigger untaps your whole board and grants an extra combat, literally doubling the damage of an equipped team right when the table thinks it has stabilized. The equipment package leans harder into cheap, snowballing gear: Adventuring Gear and Goldvein Pick equip for {1} (landfall pump and Treasure-on-damage that also feeds Adelbert/Machinist’s artifact counts), Twin Blades and Squire’s Lightblade flash on for combat tricks, and Genji Glove is the finisher — double strike PLUS its own first-combat untap and extra combat phase stacks with Aurelia for absurd alpha strikes. Adelbert Steiner, Cloud, Weapons Vendor, Gilgamesh and Master Piandao convert the Equipment count into raw stats, card advantage and tutoring, while Slash of Light (damage = creatures + Equipment you control) doubles as scaling removal in this exact shell. Dauntless Veteran anthems the go-wide attack; a deep WR removal/burn suite (Emeritus // Swords to Plowshares, Fiery Annihilation, Abrade, Lightning Strike, Valorous Stance, Repel Calamity, Stasis Snare) clears blockers so equipped beaters connect. Curve out, equip up, attack — then untap with Aurelia and do it again.
Upgrade path
Commander is Aurelia, the Warleader — a TRUE Boros legendary, identity {R}{R}{W}{W}, so every card in the 59 is on-identity. All 59 verified owned (owned_qty>=1 in mtga.db) and standardbrawl-legal; identities are colorless, W, R, or RW (all subset of RW). Validator PASS: exactly 60 incl. commander, singleton. Rare discipline honored: the only crafted card is the single approved branch-out shock Sacred Foundry (1 copy, only wildcard cost). Zero rare/mythic SPELL crafts — every rare/mythic is OWNED: Genji Glove (newly added owned rare Equipment), Skyknight Squire, Gilgamesh, Celestial Armor, Machinist’s Arsenal, plus owned mythics Cloud and Emeritus // Swords to Plowshares; Aurelia herself is an owned mythic. Refinement vs prior build: ADDED owned Genji Glove, Goldvein Pick, Adventuring Gear, Lightning Strike, Dauntless Veteran; CUT Kyoshi Battle Fan, Knight Luminary, Honored Knight-Captain, Treetop Freedom Fighters, Lion Heart. Crystal Fragments listed under exact DB name “Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander”. 25 lands (12 nonbasic + 7 Plains + 6 Mountain). Future rare-wildcard upgrades over the tap-lands: Battlefield Forge, Needleverge Pathway.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Aurelia, the Warleader
Deck
1 Zack Fair
1 Freya Crescent
1 Adelbert Steiner
1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
1 Resolute Reinforcements
1 Skyknight Squire
1 Casey Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar
1 Dauntless Veteran
1 Weapons Vendor
1 Master Piandao
1 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
1 Crystal Fragments
1 Adventuring Gear
1 Goldvein Pick
1 Dragoon's Lance
1 Paladin's Arms
1 Twin Blades
1 Celestial Armor
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Genji Glove
1 Machinist's Arsenal
1 Emeritus of Truce
1 Valorous Stance
1 Repel Calamity
1 Abrade
1 Lightning Strike
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Slash of Light
1 Stasis Snare
1 Heroic Reinforcements
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Boros Guildgate
1 Inspiring Vantage
1 Sun-Blessed Peak
1 Wind-Scarred Crag
1 Command Tower
1 Starting Town
1 Temple of Triumph
1 Secluded Courtyard
1 Capital City
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
7 Plains
6 Mountain
1 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 Searslicer Goblin
1 Ajani, Caller of the Pride
Card images & data via Scryfall.