I think she would be a pretty fun goblin tribal commander. Adding the white will give it the ability to protect your big goblin army from wipes and removal. It also lets you play the swords and paths so you get additional removal yourself. Get cards to let your guys have haste including arabella and you can potentially drain opponents with ten goblins
Maze of Ith is a great card to avoid commander damage ( or infect, or beefy creatures in general), but in this deck it can also be used offensively as well to get an Arabella trigger risk-free.
Been doing JBM (Jolly Balloon Man) And it's fun for me. Enemy tries so hard to stop JBM from giving value but the Kiki-Jiki and reflection are honestly the better copy cats around. With JBM giving me that cheap cast and haste value, I just need him for early card draw and token gens for my ETB burners. I've played Arabella and it's also tons of fun. It is difficult for me to get the same synergy because of Warleader giving +1+1 ruining the 2 or less power requirement, so I have to cut it if I switch to her as my commander. Either way, I haven't had this much fun with boros decks in a while.
Twinflame Tyrant, Fiendish Duo, Anim Pakal just to mention a few. Also Windborn Muse and Ghostly Prison to keep your enemies from attacking you. Skeleton Key, Mithril Coat and Maze of Ith for evasion/protection. Kiki Jiki Mirrorbreaker is also not that expensive and does a ton for Arabella.
I think you need a way to reliably protect the Commander (or repeatedly cast her + haste). She is key to the win strategy and since she damages all opponents, you will be arch-enemy as long as she is on the battlefield. So unless no one has removal which is unlikely, she is not going to last very long and it’s just a weak token deck without her.
Season of the Burrow is pretty good for this deck. Elspeth's Sun's Champion would also help you retain the game's momentum. I like Elspeth because she destroys all high-powered creatures without targeting them or creating 3 1/1s per turn. The minus 7 is if your opponents have taken your commander seriously enough, and you need to pivot to flying. Ideally, we've created a circumstance for Arabella to have haste and ko opponents for 2-4 manna, but that's only sometimes going to be the case. Boros decks love extra combat steps. Finally, impact tremors and goblin bombardment are great enchantments for these mass creature token cards and a response to board wipes.
I would love to see a Tetzin, Gnome Champion deck in this precon format, I rarely see people build him on a budget and I'm on edge how to build him myself since I mostly play jund decks. Personally I find these budget precon decks awesome
Adding creatures like Archetype of Courage, Crashing Drawbridge, Legion Loyalist, Pyreheart Wolf or Lionheart Glimmer give you anthems/creature buffs that you can benefit from while still triggering Ana. Irreverent Gremlin gives you some good looting ability on a solid two-drop. Marvin the Mimic lets you double up on things like Jolly Balloon Man and other activated effects. Vicious clown can get real big on the right turn, getting +6 off of Hordeling Outburst. Overlord of the Mistmoors is another Sun Titan type creature, only generating two tokens instead of recursion. Grand Crescendo and Rise of the Hobgoblins are some awesome token generators while also giving you combat buffs. Dollmaker's Shop/Porcelain Gallery is just a huge buff to the deck, either generating more tokens or giving your cards the ability to run over the top of your opponents due to your creature size. Similarly, True Conviction is a massive anthem for a go-wide Boros deck. Cards like Aven Warcraft, Akroma's Blessings, Great Train Heist, or Savage Beating give you all sorts of awesome combat tricks/creature protection.
Looks great! When you mentioned the JBM recommendations, what would you take out of the stock list for those creatures? Maybe like a sideboard option? 😊
Anim Pakal would be perfect with Arabella. And then have either Losheel, Clockwork scholar to prevent combat damage to artifact creatures, or dolmen gate for all creatures.
Can I equip arrabella with battlemages bracers, attack, pay 1 Mana and her ability triggers twice? Or do I choose another creature of mine who has the same ability as arabella now? (sry for bad english. I'm not english)
Arabella's ability is triggered, not activated, so Bracers won't work! Simple rule of thumb: If it has a colon it's an activated ability. If it says 'at' or 'if' or 'when' or 'whenever' it's a triggered ability!
She is like super crazy in Isshin decks... Without any ramp / fast mana etc. - you can have a turns with here, when on Turn 4 you alrady have over 90 dmg. together. Cast here turn 2, then Adeline turn 3 and then Isshin turn 4. It would be easly more with some good turn 1 cretures. Its a "kill" a player or two on turn 4, and kill everyone on turn 5... without any really card that are cosinder busted in commander :P She is the reason i remove some of the mana rocks from my Isshin decks , and cut some higher costed cards... i now runa lot more 1, 2 and 3 mana cards...
Straight into my Isshin deck too. Have been tweaking it to give more instances of haste. Sitting on the board for a full turn cycle telegraphs your plan too much!
@@davidharris2023 I play 2 lands that give haste, boots, Enduring Coruage and Ogre Battle Driver :) I did play Gimli's Reckless Might but i change it for Endruign Coruage now ;P
Yep, she's great in Isshin. I already ran Commissar Severina Raine and Mishra, Claimed by Gix, along with a bunch of token makers, so Arabella was an easy add. Last game, someone had to go all out to kill me because if I untapped on my next turn, Arabella was going to hit everyone for 70 damage each (largely thanks to Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin).
These red decks suck. It's commander, where people prioritize pinging effects over 15 costs eldrazi. Where the average person never attacks and has plenty of enchantments life gain and board clears.
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I think she would be a pretty fun goblin tribal commander. Adding the white will give it the ability to protect your big goblin army from wipes and removal. It also lets you play the swords and paths so you get additional removal yourself. Get cards to let your guys have haste including arabella and you can potentially drain opponents with ten goblins
I’m stealing this idea btw
Fantastic MBMBAM reference. Even better deck tech
I just built an Arabella deck last week and bought all the cards for it, it is amazingly similar to how you built it!
You know how long I've been waiting for this
Maze of Ith is a great card to avoid commander damage ( or infect, or beefy creatures in general), but in this deck it can also be used offensively as well to get an Arabella trigger risk-free.
Been doing JBM (Jolly Balloon Man) And it's fun for me. Enemy tries so hard to stop JBM from giving value but the Kiki-Jiki and reflection are honestly the better copy cats around. With JBM giving me that cheap cast and haste value, I just need him for early card draw and token gens for my ETB burners.
I've played Arabella and it's also tons of fun. It is difficult for me to get the same synergy because of Warleader giving +1+1 ruining the 2 or less power requirement, so I have to cut it if I switch to her as my commander. Either way, I haven't had this much fun with boros decks in a while.
Love the video, I was wondering where I can view the upgrades in the deck and what cards to sub out? Look forward to more guides!
I love the idea and presentaiton of these custom "precon" commander decks!
Is there a playlist with your videos of this kind?
There sure is! You can find it on the channel under playlists - there are dozens now!
I really enjoy Sublime Archangel in an Arabella list. That way Arabella will be gigantic and dealing all that damage every combat.
Twinflame Tyrant, Fiendish Duo, Anim Pakal just to mention a few. Also Windborn Muse and Ghostly Prison to keep your enemies from attacking you.
Skeleton Key, Mithril Coat and Maze of Ith for evasion/protection. Kiki Jiki Mirrorbreaker is also not that expensive and does a ton for Arabella.
I think you need a way to reliably protect the Commander (or repeatedly cast her + haste). She is key to the win strategy and since she damages all opponents, you will be arch-enemy as long as she is on the battlefield. So unless no one has removal which is unlikely, she is not going to last very long and it’s just a weak token deck without her.
The new hare apparent card goes absolutely crazy in this deck
I put her in my Anim Pakal deck. So yeah all the fun!
I built my own version using what I had laying around. It’s so much fun, especially in 1v1 commander. But it does lack in draw power.
could you add Myrel, Shield of Argive for the soldier tokens as well?
Which cards would you remove to add the "upgrades" that you mentioned in the end of the video? Thanks for the video by the way greatly appreciated.
Season of the Burrow is pretty good for this deck. Elspeth's Sun's Champion would also help you retain the game's momentum. I like Elspeth because she destroys all high-powered creatures without targeting them or creating 3 1/1s per turn. The minus 7 is if your opponents have taken your commander seriously enough, and you need to pivot to flying. Ideally, we've created a circumstance for Arabella to have haste and ko opponents for 2-4 manna, but that's only sometimes going to be the case. Boros decks love extra combat steps. Finally, impact tremors and goblin bombardment are great enchantments for these mass creature token cards and a response to board wipes.
Elspeth is in the list!
Where is the upgraded list with more budget? Cant find it
I would love to see a Tetzin, Gnome Champion deck in this precon format, I rarely see people build him on a budget and I'm on edge how to build him myself since I mostly play jund decks. Personally I find these budget precon decks awesome
Looking forward to making her a pauper commander with a bunch of walls and defenders
Dolmen's and Iroas for the upgrades are pretty good, pseudo reconnaissance.
Commander newbie here, does the damage from her ability counts as commander dmg?
No, commander damage is only dealt through combat damage
No
Sorry, only COMBAT damage counts as commander damage!
@@CommanderMechanic gotcha, ty! i am buying the cards for this deck as we speak! :)
Isn't there a card in white that double all soldiers upon attacking?
Adding creatures like Archetype of Courage, Crashing Drawbridge, Legion Loyalist, Pyreheart Wolf or Lionheart Glimmer give you anthems/creature buffs that you can benefit from while still triggering Ana.
Irreverent Gremlin gives you some good looting ability on a solid two-drop. Marvin the Mimic lets you double up on things like Jolly Balloon Man and other activated effects. Vicious clown can get real big on the right turn, getting +6 off of Hordeling Outburst. Overlord of the Mistmoors is another Sun Titan type creature, only generating two tokens instead of recursion.
Grand Crescendo and Rise of the Hobgoblins are some awesome token generators while also giving you combat buffs.
Dollmaker's Shop/Porcelain Gallery is just a huge buff to the deck, either generating more tokens or giving your cards the ability to run over the top of your opponents due to your creature size. Similarly, True Conviction is a massive anthem for a go-wide Boros deck.
Cards like Aven Warcraft, Akroma's Blessings, Great Train Heist, or Savage Beating give you all sorts of awesome combat tricks/creature protection.
I was thinking of putting her into my breya deck.
Looks great! When you mentioned the JBM recommendations, what would you take out of the stock list for those creatures? Maybe like a sideboard option? 😊
you need fewer creatures that grant creatures unblockable with JBM at the helm, so remove Tunneler, Playmate, et al.
@@CommanderMechanic okie dokie :) I think I’ll stick with Arabella anyways 😁 thanks for the content!
Meekstone is a must have.
Spirit of en-Dal. Only use it for its Forecast ability on your upkeep to give Aeabella shadow.
Storm Herd would be crazy in here
Anim Pakal would be perfect with Arabella. And then have either Losheel, Clockwork scholar to prevent combat damage to artifact creatures, or dolmen gate for all creatures.
i seriosly need to get a copy of this card for the 99 of a naya deck i have
Solphim would be a big upgrade but pricey
Surprised to not see anim pakal. Since you want to always attack, she acts a bit like an enchant that poops out gnomes.
if arabella works with lifelink and infect, works with toxic too??
Toxic is just combat damage
Yes you missing krenko mob boss , and ocelot pride
Can I equip arrabella with battlemages bracers, attack, pay 1 Mana and her ability triggers twice? Or do I choose another creature of mine who has the same ability as arabella now?
(sry for bad english. I'm not english)
Arabella's ability is triggered, not activated, so Bracers won't work! Simple rule of thumb: If it has a colon it's an activated ability. If it says 'at' or 'if' or 'when' or 'whenever' it's a triggered ability!
@CommanderMechanic Thank you for the quick answer!
But why exactly would I play Battlemages Bracers in this deck?
Only for the Haste?
She is like super crazy in Isshin decks... Without any ramp / fast mana etc. - you can have a turns with here, when on Turn 4 you alrady have over 90 dmg. together. Cast here turn 2, then Adeline turn 3 and then Isshin turn 4. It would be easly more with some good turn 1 cretures. Its a "kill" a player or two on turn 4, and kill everyone on turn 5... without any really card that are cosinder busted in commander :P
She is the reason i remove some of the mana rocks from my Isshin decks , and cut some higher costed cards... i now runa lot more 1, 2 and 3 mana cards...
Straight into my Isshin deck too. Have been tweaking it to give more instances of haste. Sitting on the board for a full turn cycle telegraphs your plan too much!
@@davidharris2023 I play 2 lands that give haste, boots, Enduring Coruage and Ogre Battle Driver :) I did play Gimli's Reckless Might but i change it for Endruign Coruage now ;P
Yep, she's great in Isshin. I already ran Commissar Severina Raine and Mishra, Claimed by Gix, along with a bunch of token makers, so Arabella was an easy add. Last game, someone had to go all out to kill me because if I untapped on my next turn, Arabella was going to hit everyone for 70 damage each (largely thanks to Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin).
How do I buy it for that price?
It’s priced in Moxfield at TCG player but you will likely find it for less at my sponsor CardTrader
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Any Boros deck needs Deflecting Palm. Sooooo many ambush wins out of nowhere.
great precon, 0 references to that arctic monkeys song, 3 out of 5 stars
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I would love to see a budget decklist and then a upgrade decklist in these videos
2x deck lists is 2x work - who funds that?
These red decks suck. It's commander, where people prioritize pinging effects over 15 costs eldrazi. Where the average person never attacks and has plenty of enchantments life gain and board clears.
Subpar commander.
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