Boros? Auras? Reanimation? Awesome!!1

Commander / EDH* Budget Enchantment Jank Multiplayer Reanimator RW (Boros)

18ths

Enchantment (28)

• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Awaken the Ancient
• 1x Bestial Fury
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Dragon Mantle
• 1x Ethereal Armor
• 1x Faith Unbroken
• 1x Faith's Fetters
• 1x Fencer's Magemark
• 1x Flamespeaker's Will
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Frenzied Fugue
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Gleam of Authority
• 1x Mortal Obstinacy
• 1x Pentarch Ward
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Sage's Reverie
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Sigarda's Aid
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Soul Tithe
• 1x Spectra Ward
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Unquestioned Authority
• 1x Ward of Lights
• 1x Weight of Conscience

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Retether
• 1x Three Dreams
• 1x Winds of Rath

Creature (21)

• 1x Ajani's Chosen
• 1x Anax and Cymede
• 1x Blessed Spirits
• 1x Celestial Ancient
• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Fabled Hero
• 1x Hero of Iroas
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory *list*
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kor Spiritdancer
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Nomad Mythmaker
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Phalanx Leader
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Silent Sentinel
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Umbra Mystic
• 1x Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Artifact (11)

• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Needle Spires
• 13x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag

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Creature (3)

• 1x Angel of Finality
• 1x Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder *f-etch*
• 1x Eidolon of Countless Battles

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Aura of Silence

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This is my take on an archetype you didn't know it existed in EDH - Boros aura reanimator. This deck is far from competitive, but it should be at least fine in low or medium powered metas. The deck can hit fast and very hard, yet it doesn't run out of gas like a typical aggro deck.

I believe Tiana is best when you focus on either equipments or auras - I decided on the latter, mainly because of how great is she in removing their biggest disadvantage, making every aura a slightly worse Rancor. Also the deck feels quite unique - there are so many equipment-based commanders, and practically one aura-based one - Uril, the Miststalker

The deck is surprisingly good at drawing cards, unlike a lot of RW decks. Drawing one of Sram, Senior Edificer, Mesa Enchantress or Kor Spiritdancer will give you a lot of cards no matter what you do, so make sure that you mulligan aggressively to get at least one of them. Bouncing Flickering Ward when one of them is on the battlefield can be absurdly powerful, also your commander helps a lot if some of your auras falls off of your creatures (due to creature removal or giving your creature protection from a color of its attached auras). There are some good auras with cantrips too, which again, draw a lot when bounced. This, plus Tiana's habit to bring your auras to your hand at the end of the turn but before discard-to-seven-in-hand step, makes Reliquary Tower and Thought Vessel a fine addition to the deck.

Any creature with several auras on it will start to look really scary, even if it originally was just a 1/1 soldier, so we should expect getting spot removal a lot. Hopefully, we have a lot of tools to mitigate it - you can protect creatures from colors (Spectra Ward) or make it indestructible (Shielded by Faith). Umbra Mystic makes your auras even more powerful by making destroy-based removal worthless. If all fails, Karmic Guide, Reveillark, Silent Sentinel, Emeria Shepherd and Sun Titan will bring your stuff back online.

Speaking of reanimations - make sure you know the most counter-intuitive rule in magic (https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/can-an-aura-which-was-not-cast-be-attached-to-a-permanent-with-shroud?rq=1) Retether, Silent Sentinel and Open the Vaults will make sure you know it, because it can let you put your aura-removal like Soul Tithe on hexproof/shroud creatures. Also, attaching a non-casted aura doesn't use the stack, so this way your Frenzied Fugue can steal a permanent without giving your opponent time to respond to it.

Wincons are Ethereal Armor on commander or other evasive creature, death by keyword soup with Odric, Lunarch Marshal, Celestial Ancient/Phalanx Leader with Gleam of Authority pumping your creatures to absurd rates or a big gang of flying angels produced by Sigil of the Empty Throne

The big issue to resolve yet is to make the deck more interactive (only a few of those auras can be played as an instant), but there is no other real alternative to Sigarda's Aid and Vedalken Orrery. Also spot removal is mediocre, especially when it comes to artifacts/enchantments. So suggestions for improving this deck are very appreciated. :)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Cat 2/2 W, Elemental 3/1 R w/ Trample, haste, Gold, Plant 0/2 G, Soldier 1/1 RW
Folders	playtest, Commander