auras by cateperson

Format: Commander

Commander: Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice is a hyper-linear mono-white Aura Voltron deck. The entire game plan revolves around casting Light-Paws and chaining Auras: every Aura you cast triggers her ability to search up another Aura with equal or lesser mana value and attach it to her for free. The deck runs roughly forty Auras spanning pump (Ethereal Armor, All That Glitters, Spirit Mantle), protection (Mask of Law and Grace, Shield of Duty and Reason, Benevolent Blessing), and removal (Ossification, Faith Unbroken, Chains of Custody). The primary win condition is commander damage from a massively pumped, evasive Light-Paws, with Winds of Rath clearing the board of everything she isn't. Armored Skyhunter and Mesa Enchantress provide backup value, and a thin recursion package (Auramancer, Spectral Steel) offers minor recovery. The deck is fast but extremely commander-dependent and structurally fragile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Angelic Gift
  • 1 Angelic Renewal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armor of Faith
  • 1 Armored Ascension
  • 1 Armored Skyhunter
  • 1 Auramancer
  • 1 Benevolent Blessing
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Chains of Custody
  • 1 Chosen by Heliod
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Crumb and Get It
  • 1 Curse of Conformity
  • 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Eland Umbra
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ethereal Armor
  • 1 Faith Unbroken
  • 1 Feather of Flight
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Graceful Reprieve
  • 1 Guilty Conscience
  • 1 Heliod's Pilgrim
  • 1 Helm of the Gods
  • 1 Hyena Umbra
  • 1 Inviolability
  • 1 Iona's Blessing
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
  • 1 Mask of Law and Grace
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Minimus Containment
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 On Serra's Wings
  • 1 Ossification
  • 1 Overencumbered
  • 1 Pacifism
  • 1 Pariah
  • 35 Plains
  • 1 Planar Disruption
  • 1 Prison Term
  • 1 Radiant Grace // Radiant Restraints
  • 1 Redemption Arc
  • 1 Reprobation
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sage's Reverie
  • 1 Saving Grace
  • 1 Seal of Cleansing
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Sentinel's Eyes
  • 1 Shardmage's Rescue
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Shield of Duty and Reason
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solid Footing
  • 1 Spectral Steel
  • 1 Spirit Link
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Starnheim Courser
  • 1 Transcendent Envoy
  • 1 Ward of Lights
  • 1 Winds of Rath