
The Destined Warrior
The Destined Warrior Commander Deck
This is an Esper party aggro deck that fills its board with cheap Clerics, Rogues, Warriors and Wizards, discounted by the commander. It aims to assemble a full party as fast as possible, because the commander and many creatures switch on bigger bonuses with all four roles. With a full party, the commander's beginning-of-combat trigger gives the whole team +3/+0, alongside stacking full-party triggers for counters, deathtouch, indestructibility, card draw and lockdown. Evasion and combat-damage card draw then turn each attack into more fuel. How it wins: It swarms opponents with a wide, evasive, pumped-up party creature board each combat, closing with team-wide +X/+0 bonuses, double strike and unblockability, plus incidental drain from party-scaling attack triggers and noncreature-spell pings. Key roles: - Full party enablers: Changelings, all-types effects and multi-type creatures fill missing party slots instantly, so the full-party mode on the commander and the other payoffs turns on reliably (Maskwood Nexus, Burakos, Party Leader, Mirror Entity). - Full-party combat payoffs: Stacking beginning-of-combat triggers on top of the commander's team pump add counters, deathtouch, indestructibility, flying or tapping down a blocker, so the attack becomes lethal (Nalia de'Arnise, Squad Commander, Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate). - Evasion and combat tricks: Unblockability, menace and fear, plus one-shot team-wide double strike, push the pumped damage through crowded boards (Midnight Pathlighter, Kamiz, Obscura Oculus, Akroma's Will). - Combat-damage card engines: Creatures that draw, loot or make Treasure on combat damage refill the hand and mana every attack, with full-party versions drawing much more (The Destined Thief, Nimble Trapfinder, Reconnaissance Mission). - Party card advantage and tutoring: Spells and creatures that scale with party size or find party members keep the creature density flowing, including free casts once the party is full (Harper Recruiter, Coveted Prize, Spoils of Adventure). - Second-spell and recursion subtheme: Several cards reward casting a second spell each turn with discounts, draws and Treasure. Graveyard effects bring dead party members back to reassemble the party after removal or wraths (Alisaie Leveilleur, Alphinaud Leveilleur, Solemn Doomguide).
The Destined Warrior decklist
- Arcane Signet
- Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
- Fellwar Stone
- Maskwood Nexus
- Multiclass Baldric
- Sol Ring
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Talisman of Dominance
- Talisman of Hierarchy
- Talisman of Progress
- Adarkar Wastes
- Arcane Sanctum
- Base Camp
- Caves of Koilos
- Command Tower
- Drowned Catacomb
- Exotic Orchard
- Flooded Strand
- Glacial Fortress
- Godless Shrine
- Hallowed Fountain
- 4× Island
- Isolated Chapel
- Mutavault
- Path of Ancestry
- 5× Plains
- Polluted Delta
- Prairie Stream
- Raffine's Tower
- Sea of Clouds
- Sunken Hollow
- 4× Swamp
- Underground River
- Vault of the Archangel
- Watery Grave
- Alisaie Leveilleur
- Alphinaud Leveilleur
- Archpriest of Iona
- Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
- Burakos, Party Leader
- Changeling Outcast
- Dark Confidant
- Deep Gnome Terramancer
- Faerie Mastermind
- Frontline Medic
- Grim Hireling
- Harper Recruiter
- Kamiz, Obscura Oculus
- Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate
- Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
- Mangara, the Diplomat
- Midnight Pathlighter
- Mindblade Render
- Mirror Entity
- Mother of Runes
- Nalia de'Arnise
- Nimble Trapfinder
- Notion Thief
- Rosa, Resolute White Mage
- Seasoned Dungeoneer
- Selfless Spirit
- Shadowmage Infiltrator
- Solemn Doomguide
- Squad Commander
- The Destined Black Mage
- The Destined Thief
- The Destined White Mage
- Tymna the Weaver
- Unsettled Mariner
- Black Market Connections
- Champions from Beyond
- Journey to Oblivion
- Reconnaissance Mission
- Akroma's Will
- Anguished Unmaking
- Concerted Defense
- Counterspell
- Deadly Alliance
- Dovin's Veto
- Path to Exile
- Spoils of Adventure
- Swords to Plowshares
- Void Rend
- Austere Command
- Coveted Prize
- Damn
- Sevinne's Reclamation
- Swamp
- Island