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Whose the warden of the prison? That's right, Aurelia, the Warleader! Not only has she brought some of her friends and old favorites, but in a controlling shell.

This is a boros prison deck that seeks to shut down your opponents with a soft lock that prevents untapping and abuses Aurelia's untap effect to free your creatures and allow them to swing away in the 2nd attack phase. A secondary theme is in land destruction/denial using the powerhouse cards in the boros colors to slow things down while you beat away and get a lock in place.

After some consideration (battlecruisers, tokens, tribal, buff, tron, etc.) I've decided to go another way and load up on the enchantment creature feature from Theros as the deck was already enchantment heavy and I had included enchantment based graveyard recursion and tutoring (Skull of Orm, Crystal Chimes, and Enlightened Tutor).

Soft lock cards: Meekstone, Winter Orb, Smoke, Static Orb, and Marble Titan.

Cards with synergy to the lock: Blind Obedience, Kismet, Icy Manipulator, Master Decoy, Ghostly Prison.

Mana base disruption: Blood Moon, Burning Earth, Orcish Settlers, Armageddon, Jokulhaups.

The deck can play as a straightforward midrangy-aggro deck too.

Deck is certainly still in a prototype phase where I'm looking for tweaks in card selection. The current build uses cards I have within my collection. Lands are still in early stages.

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Moved a few things around. Not sure this deck is strong enough, most of the enchantment creatures are rather underwhelming on their own, which means a weak battlefield presence early on. That with a lack of spot removal (in favor of higher CMC wraths) means this deck is very vulnerable to early aggression unless a prison effect comes down early.

Also upped the land count to 36, felt I wasn't drawing enough mana early on.

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Revision 5 See all

(9 months ago)

+1 Aurelia, the Warleader main
Date added 9 years
Last updated 9 months
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

16 - 0 Mythic Rares

42 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

1 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.66
Tokens Bird 3/4 W, Cat Soldier 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Enchantment Cleric 2/1 W, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders commander decks, edh
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