At a glance
- Format: Standard
- Colors: White / Red (WR)
- Archetype: Boros aggro / tokens / anthems
- Power tier: mid
- Standard: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Flood the board with cheap bodies, then pump the whole team and swing. Eleven one-drops and a fat two-drop slot (Zack Fair, Novice Inspector, Invasion Reinforcements, Resolute Reinforcements, Prideful Parent, Searslicer Goblin, Honored Knight-Captain) make multiple tokens each, and the flash bodies (Invasion/Resolute Reinforcements) double as instant-speed ambush blockers or end-of-turn pressure. Anthems then convert the swarm to lethal: Suki and Dauntless Veteran pump statically/on-attack, Dawnwing Marshal and Summon: Choco/Mog give repeatable team buffs (Choco/Mog hands out +1/+0 four turns running), and Heroic Reinforcements is the explosive haste-anthem finisher. The light equipment package (Squire’s Lightblade, Kyoshi Battle Fan) gives reach and grows Adelbert Steiner, whose lifelink plus Prideful Parent’s incidental gains snowballs Ajani’s Pridemate. A lean burn suite (Burst Lightning, Lightning Strike, Elspeth’s Smite) clears blockers and closes from hand.
Upgrade path
Zero rare/mythic SPELL crafts. Owned rares run free: Searslicer Goblin and Suki, Courageous Rescuer (spells), plus the owned rare LANDS Inspiring Vantage (own1) and Temple of Triumph (own1, scry dual). The only crafted unowned rares are the 2x Sacred Foundry shock (the approved Boros branch-out, 2 of the 8-rare land budget). Refinement vs. prior build: cut the always-tapped Boros Guildgate and the vanilla-ish Wandering Musicians, added Summon: Choco/Mog (repeatable team anthem) and a pair of Resolute Reinforcements (flash two-for-one bodies), swapped the Guildgate slot to the owned Temple of Triumph, and trimmed to 23 lands to match the low curve (top end is just 2x Heroic Reinforcements at 4). Gate: PASS legality + construction, 60 cards, only short the 2 approved Sacred Foundry.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Deck
3 Zack Fair
3 Invasion Reinforcements
2 Resolute Reinforcements
2 Squire's Lightblade
2 Searslicer Goblin
3 Prideful Parent
1 Ajani's Pridemate
2 Dawnwing Marshal
2 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
2 Dauntless Veteran
2 Heroic Reinforcements
3 Burst Lightning
2 Lightning Strike
2 Elspeth's Smite
4 Sacred Foundry
1 Inspiring Vantage
11 Plains
7 Mountain
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 United Front
1 Regal Caracal
1 Arahbo, the First Fang
1 Skyknight Squire
1 Voice of Victory
Sideboard
A 15-card sideboard for best-of-three (Traditional) play — swap these in game 2/3 against the matchups below.
Boros go-wide aggro sides toward interaction, not away from its clock. Core tech: Web Up (3-mana exile any nonland permanent) is the catch-all vs every enchantment engine (Curiosity, Unholy Annex, Zur Overlords, Caretaker’s Talent) and doubles as planeswalker/bomb removal. Scorching Dragonfire and Fiery Annihilation are exile removal (clean answers to Screaming Nemesis and recursive/indestructible threats). Razor Rings + Sun-Blessed Healer buy life in the aggro races; Inspiring Overseer refuels vs grind; Rooftop Percher is graveyard hate + a lifelink flyer vs Oculus. We never board in sweepers — we’re the token deck.
vs Mono-Red / Gruul Prowess / Boros Burn: +2 Razor Rings, +2 Sun-Blessed Healer, +2 Scorching Dragonfire / -2 Squire’s Lightblade, -2 Dawnwing Marshal, -1 Ajani’s Pridemate, -1 Dauntless Veteran. Trade + gain life, keep an evasive/lifelink edge in the race; exile removal for Screaming Nemesis.
vs Dimir Midrange: +3 Web Up, +2 Inspiring Overseer, +2 Fiery Annihilation / -2 Squire’s Lightblade, -2 Dawnwing Marshal, -2 Burst Lightning, -1 Ajani’s Pridemate. Web Up exiles Enduring Curiosity and Kaito; Overseer beats their 1-for-1 removal by replacing itself; Fiery kills their fliers.
vs Golgari Midrange: +3 Web Up, +2 Fiery Annihilation, +2 Inspiring Overseer / -2 Squire’s Lightblade, -2 Dawnwing Marshal, -2 Burst Lightning, -1 Ajani’s Pridemate. Web Up handles Unholy Annex + Glissa; Fiery exiles their beef; Overseer grinds.
vs Azorius Oculus: +2 Rooftop Percher, +2 Scorching Dragonfire, +2 Fiery Annihilation / -2 Squire’s Lightblade, -2 Dawnwing Marshal, -1 Ajani’s Pridemate, -1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout. Exile Abhorrent Oculus, hate the graveyard, keep the fast clock.
vs Zur Domain: +3 Web Up, +2 Scorching Dragonfire, +2 Inspiring Overseer / -2 Squire’s Lightblade, -2 Dawnwing Marshal, -2 Elspeth’s Smite, -1 Ajani’s Pridemate. Exile their enchantment ramp/Overlords and just race under it.
vs Jeskai Convoke / Mono-White Tokens: +3 Web Up, +2 Fiery Annihilation, +2 Razor Rings / -2 Squire’s Lightblade, -2 Dawnwing Marshal, -2 Burst Lightning, -1 Ajani’s Pridemate. Web Up erases Caretaker’s Talent / Enduring Innocence anthems; we out-tempo the go-wide mirror rather than sweep it.
Full deck with sideboard (paste into Arena for Bo3):
Deck
3 Zack Fair
3 Invasion Reinforcements
2 Resolute Reinforcements
2 Squire's Lightblade
2 Searslicer Goblin
3 Prideful Parent
1 Ajani's Pridemate
2 Dawnwing Marshal
2 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
2 Dauntless Veteran
2 Heroic Reinforcements
3 Burst Lightning
2 Lightning Strike
2 Elspeth's Smite
4 Sacred Foundry
1 Inspiring Vantage
11 Plains
7 Mountain
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 United Front
1 Regal Caracal
1 Arahbo, the First Fang
1 Skyknight Squire
1 Voice of Victory
Sideboard
3 Web Up
2 Scorching Dragonfire
2 Fiery Annihilation
2 Razor Rings
2 Sun-Blessed Healer
2 Inspiring Overseer
2 Rooftop Percher
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