
Aurelia V2
Aurelia, the Warleader Commander Deck
Aurelia, the Warleader drives an aggressive Angels-and-Equipment deck: her first attack each turn untaps the team and adds a second combat, so every vigilant flyer, sword trigger and attack-based draw effect fires twice. The list blends an Angel tribal shell (cost reducers, counter and lifelink lords, token makers) with a Stoneforge-style equipment package that tutors, cheats and cheaply re-equips Swords for combat-damage value across both combats. Helm of the Host copying Aurelia (non-legendary, with haste) stacks extra-combat triggers, and Sword of Hearth and Home on Aurelia flickers her into a fresh object for unlimited combats. How it wins: Repeated combats with evasive, equipped and pumped flyers deal lethal damage, often amplified by double strike or Gisela, while Aurelia plus Sword of Hearth and Home can produce infinite combat phases outright. Key roles: - Extra combat engine: Aurelia, the Warleader's untap-and-extra-combat trigger is the core, with backup and copies that multiply combat steps, and the Sword of Hearth and Home flicker loop turns it into endless combats (Sword of Hearth and Home, Helm of the Host, Godo, Bandit Warlord) - Equipment toolbox: tutors and cheaters find the right sword, enablers make equipping free or instant-speed, and combat-damage swords untap lands, draw, ping and ramp on each hit (Stoneforge Mystic, Puresteel Paladin, Sword of Feast and Famine) - Angel tribal army: cost reducers and counter or lifelink anthems make a flying team that swings safely through multiple combats, with lifegain feeding token generation (Giada, Font of Hope, Lyra Dawnbringer, Starnheim Aspirant) - Damage multipliers and finishers: double strike, damage doubling and team-wide pump turn two combats into a kill, and a tutorable equipment can fetch instant finishers from the library (Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, Akroma's Will, Sunforger) - Attack-triggered card advantage: wide multi-creature attacks and small creatures entering refill the hand every combat (Firemane Commando, Aurelia, the Law Above, Welcoming Vampire) - Protection and control: indestructibility and phasing effects safeguard the board through wipes, while tax and lock pieces punish opponents' spells and blocks (Teferi's Protection, Flawless Maneuver, Voice of Victory)
Aurelia V2 decklist
- Boros Charm
- Sacred Foundry
- Knight of the White Orchid
- Command Beacon
- Sigarda's Aid
- Smothering Tithe
- Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
- Inspiring Vantage
- Arid Mesa
- Rugged Prairie
- Battlefield Forge
- Sword of Feast and Famine
- Stoneforge Mystic
- Prismatic Vista
- Sunbaked Canyon
- Talisman of Conviction
- Flawless Maneuver
- Austere Command
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope
- Sunforger
- Puresteel Paladin
- Wear // Tear
- Imperial Recruiter
- Archangel of Tithes
- Clifftop Retreat
- Helm of the Host
- Lyra Dawnbringer
- Resplendent Angel
- Spectator Seating
- Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
- Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
- Skyclave Apparition
- Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
- Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
- Akroma's Will
- Starnheim Aspirant
- Youthful Valkyrie
- Furycalm Snarl
- Archaeomancer's Map
- Sword of Hearth and Home
- Esper Sentinel
- Sundown Pass
- Welcoming Vampire
- Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- Elspeth Resplendent
- Giada, Font of Hope
- Battle Angels of Tyr
- Tocasia's Welcome
- Loran of the Third Path
- Firemane Commando
- Metropolis Reformer
- Forge Anew
- Get Lost
- Aurelia, the Law Above
- Wojek Investigator
- Trouble in Pairs
- Flare of Fortitude
- Voice of Victory
- Astelli Reclaimer
- The Queen of Dale
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Fabled Passage
- Chaos Warp
- Lightning Greaves
- Path to Exile
- Sol Ring
- Sword of the Animist
- Swords to Plowshares
- Teferi's Protection
- Mangara, the Diplomat
- Fellwar Stone
- Land Tax
- Angelic Guardian
- Blasphemous Act
- Boros Signet
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
- Urza's Incubator
- Steelshaper's Gift
- Godo, Bandit Warlord
- Sword of Fire and Ice
- Linvala, Keeper of Silence
- 5× Mountain
- 12× Plains