Overview:

This Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice deck is a highly optimized voltron strategy focused on stacking protective/evasive auras to create an unanswerable commander threat. It achieves explosive starts through fast mana and tutors, with redundancy in protection effects and aura recursion. While lacking infinite combos, it can consistently present lethal commander damage by T4-6.

Primer:

Core Strategy: Turbo-enchant Light-Paws using its built-in aura tutoring to assemble protection (hexproof/indestructible), evasion (unblockable), and power boosts. Key phases:

1. Early Acceleration: Deploy Light-Paws by T2 using fast mana (Ancient Tomb, Mana Vault).
2. Aura Chain: Cast low-CMC auras (Hyena Umbra, Spirit Mantle) to tutor increasingly powerful auras (All That Glitters, Daybreak Coronet).
3. Protection Layering: Use shroud-granters (Greater Auramancy) and recursion (Replenish, Hall of Heliod's Generosity) to survive interaction.
4. Win Condition: Swing for lethal commander damage as early as T4 with a 21+ power, protected Light-Paws.

Mulligan Priorities:

• 2 lands minimum (including color sources)
• Fast mana (Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox)
• 1-2 protective auras (Benevolent Blessing, Flickering Ward) Reject hands without early Light-Paws enablers.

Key Tips:

• Sequence auras to first fetch protection (Spectra Ward), then power boosts
• Use Teferi's Protection/Flawless Maneuver to protect critical turns
• Serra's Sanctum enables explosive aura recursion turns
• Emergence Zone lets you cast key auras at instant speed

Avoid Traps:

• Overextending without shroud/hexproof
• Casting Light-Paws without protection mana up
• Using removal on non-critical threats

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• Relies entirely on commander (3+ removals cripple the deck)
• Limited answers to mass enchantment removal (Farewell)

Moderate:

• Vulnerable to sacrifice effects (few indestructible sources)
• Weak to Drannith Magistrate/Darksteel Mutation

Minor:

• Handles single-target removal well through protection auras

Most Important Cards:

• All That Glitters
• Daybreak Coronet
• Greater Auramancy
• Ethereal Armor
• Enlightened Tutor
• Teferi's Protection
• Serra's Sanctum
• Replenish
• Smothering Tithe
• Shielded by Faith

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 8/10
Can present lethal commander damage as early as T4 (T1 Tomb -> T2 Light-Paws + 1-mana aura -> T3 fetch 3+ auras). Average goldfish kill by T5-6.

Resilience: 7/10
Hexproof/shroud layers, instant-speed protection (Surge of Salvation), and strong recursion. Weak to board wipes targeting enchantments.

Consistency: 9/10
14 tutors/draw engines for auras, 8 protection spells, and Light-Paws' built-in tutoring create deterministic aura chains.

Interaction: 5/10
Focused on self-protection over disrupting opponents. Limited to targeted removal (Swords to Plowshares) and stax pieces (Blind Obedience).

Rating Justification:

This deck exceeds optimized casual (5.5) through T4-5 lethal potential and cEDH-level fast mana, but lacks the infinite combos/proactive interaction of true cEDH. Comparable to high-power (8.0) in speed but more vulnerable to disruption than typical Tier 2 cEDH. Falls between focused competitive and high power.

Power level: 7.0 - 7.5