The Commander
Flying
Anya gets +3/+3 for each opponent whose life total is less than half their starting life total.
As long as an opponent's life total is less than half their starting life total, Anya has indestructible.
Guide
Gameplan
Anya is a Boros aggro/voltron threat that rewards you for chunking opponents' life totals fast. Race everyone down with hasty creatures, burn, and damage doublers so opponents dip below half their starting life, then Anya swings as an enormous, indestructible flier that closes the game. You're playing to apply early pressure and convert it into lethal commander damage or a wide finish.
Strengths
- Cheap recurring threat that becomes a 13/13+ flier once two opponents are below half life
- Indestructible turns off most spot and board removal, so combat answers fall short
- Flying makes her hard to chump and great for commander-damage kills
- Boros offers premium aggro tools, equipment, and combat-trick support
Weaknesses
- She does nothing on her own until opponents are already low—poor in slow, durdly games
- Indestructible doesn't stop exile, -X/-X, bounce, or sacrifice effects
- Boros lacks card advantage and ramp, so you can run out of gas
- As a tempo/aggro deck you're vulnerable to fogs, lifegain, and big blockers
Key Cards
- Sunforger — Tutors up burn and combat tricks to push opponents below half and protect your attack.
- Embercleave — Cheap haymaker that turns a single Anya swing into a one-shot kill with double strike and trample.
- Fireblast — Free reach burn to instantly drop an opponent under the half-life threshold and switch Anya online.
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight — Doubles your damage so opponents cross under half life almost immediately, supercharging Anya.
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh — Excellent partner-style aggro shell pieces aside—any cheap evasive beater helps you race the life-total clock.
- Dolmen Gate — Lets Anya and your team attack freely without losing creatures to blockers while she's not yet indestructible.
Upgrade Path
Add efficient damage doublers (Fiery Emancipation, Gisela, Angrath's Marauders) and reliable evasion/double-strike enablers so opponents hit half life early and Anya kills in one swing. Improve consistency with tutors like Steelshaper's Gift, Open the Armory, and Sunforger packages, plus protection such as Lightning Greaves to push her through. Shore up Boros's weaknesses with card-draw rocks (Smuggler's Copter, Sword of Fire and Ice) and fast mana like Mana Crypt and Boros Signet to deploy threats ahead of the table.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Lethal commander damage from a buffed, indestructible Anya, often with Embercleave or double strike
- ▸Burn spells finishing low opponents while Anya pressures the table
- ▸Wide aggressive board backed by anthems and damage doublers
- ▸Sunforger-fueled instant-speed burn to close out tapped-out players
Archetypes
- Voltron — Anya naturally grows huge and indestructible, so loading her with equipment and double strike kills via commander damage.
- Aggro/Burn — Her power scales with how low opponents are, rewarding fast, direct life-total pressure.
- Damage Doublers — Cards like Gisela and Fiery Emancipation push opponents under half life quickly to flip Anya's bonuses on.
- Go-Wide Boros — Anthems and token swarms lower multiple opponents at once, stacking Anya's +3/+3 per opponent.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
