cheaper nahiri by Finkstein
Format: Commander
Commander: Nahiri, Forged in Fury
Bracket: 3
DeckCheck Threat Index: 41
Deck overview
This Boros deck is an aggressive equipment strategy commanded by Nahiri, Forged in Fury. The core game plan leverages For Mirrodin! and Living Weapon cards like Barbed Batterfist, Ancestral Blade, and Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus to establish an early board presence that supplies both attacking creatures and equipment permanents. This enables an early casting of Nahiri on Turn 4 via her Affinity for Equipment ability. Once attacking on Turn 5, Nahiri's triggered ability exiles cards from the library and cheats Equipment directly into play for free. The deck compounds this mana and card advantage through damage amplifiers such as Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms, Hexplate Wallbreaker, and Valduk, Keeper of the Flame. While vulnerable to mass artifact removal and lacking stack-based countermagic, the deck recovers quickly from creature board wipes because its equipment remains on the battlefield to discount future commander casts.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Akiri, Fearless Voyager
- 1 Ancestral Blade
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Archivist of Oghma
- 1 Barbed Batterfist
- 1 Basilisk Collar
- 1 Batterskull
- 1 Beamtown Beatstick
- 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
- 1 Black Widow, Agile Avenger
- 1 Bladehold War-Whip
- 1 Blasphemous Act
- 1 Caparocti Sunborn
- 1 Casey Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar
- 1 Chaos Warp
- 1 Citizen's Crowbar
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Curse of Opulence
- 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
- 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
- 1 Dispatch
- 1 Dragonwing Glider
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Fellwar Stone
- 1 Fighter Class
- 1 Flayer Husk
- 1 Glimmer Lens
- 1 Goblin Engineer
- 1 Goldvein Pick
- 1 Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms
- 1 Hammer of Nazahn
- 1 Hard-Won Jitte
- 1 Hexgold Halberd
- 1 Hexgold Hoverwings
- 1 Hexplate Wallbreaker
- 1 Improvised Arsenal
- 1 Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden
- 1 Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon
- 1 Koll, the Forgemaster
- 1 Land Tax
- 1 Lion Sash
- 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
- 1 Merry, Esquire of Rohan
- 1 Minas Tirith
- 1 Monologue Tax
- 12 Mountain
- 1 Nahiri, Forged in Fury
- 1 Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients
- 1 Nettlecyst
- 1 Open the Vaults
- 1 Path to Exile
- 13 Plains
- 1 Puresteel Paladin
- 1 Rabbit Battery
- 1 Reckless Handling
- 1 Relic Seeker
- 1 Rip Apart
- 1 Rogue's Passage
- 1 Shadowspear
- 1 Sigarda's Aid
- 1 Smothering Tithe
- 1 Smuggler's Share
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
- 1 Stroke of Midnight
- 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
- 1 Sword of the Animist
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 The Reaver Cleaver
- 1 Thriving Heath
- 1 Treasure Nabber
- 1 Trouble in Pairs
- 1 Umezawa's Jitte
- 1 Valduk, Keeper of the Flame
- 1 Vandalblast
- 1 Wrath of God