Arabella by DSancho

Format: Commander

Commander: Arabella, Abandoned Doll

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Boros go-wide strategy commanded by Arabella, Abandoned Doll. The game plan revolves around deploying low-power creatures and token swarms, then attacking with Arabella to deal direct damage to each opponent and gain life equal to the number of creatures with power 2 or less. This direct burn ability bypasses opposing blockers, pressuring all three opponents simultaneously while maintaining a healthy life buffer. The deck ramps on curve with 2-mana artifacts and builds board presence using token generators like Increasing Devotion, Pia Nalaar, and Assemble the Legion. Defensive permanents like Ghostly Prison, Windborn Muse, and Solemnity protect the pilot from aggressive retaliation. A robust protection package featuring Dolmen Gate, Selfless Spirit, and The Wandering Rescuer keeps Arabella and the token army safe from combat trades and sweepers, steadily closing out the game through multi-opponent burn and wide combat attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arabella, Abandoned Doll
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assemble the Legion
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Bre of Clan Stoutarm
  • 1 Burn Down the House
  • 1 Bygone Bishop
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Creepy Doll
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emeria Angel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Guardian Idol
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 1 Investigator's Journal
  • 1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
  • 1 Leave // Chance
  • 1 Legion Loyalist
  • 1 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Needle Spires
  • 1 Odric, Master Tactician
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 1 Pia Nalaar
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Precinct Captain
  • 1 Ragged Playmate
  • 1 Remorseful Cleric
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Selfless Savior
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serra Paragon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
  • 1 The Wandering Rescuer
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tilonalli's Summoner
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Tuktuk Rubblefort
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Wojek Investigator
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus