BorosLegendary Creature — Human WarriorAstor, Bearer of Blades
Mana value4Rank#4,656
The Commander
When Astor enters, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment or Vehicle card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Equipment you control have equip 
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Vehicles you control have crew 1.
Guide
Gameplan
Astor cheapens your toys: every Equipment costs to equip and every Vehicle crews with just power 1, letting you suit up a threat and swing fast or flood the board with crewed Vehicles. You ramp into a hefty equipment/vehicle base, use Astor's ETB to dig for your best piece, then turn a single creature into a hyper-mobile beater or assemble a Vehicle army. Win by reattaching and re-equipping across multiple bodies to grind value and connect for lethal commander damage or wide swings.
Strengths
- Drastically reduces equip and crew costs, freeing mana for double-spelling and reattaching equipment every turn
- ETB card selection digs seven deep to find your key Equipment or Vehicle
- Boros has premium equipment tutors and combat support like Stoneforge Mystic and Puresteel Paladin
- Crew 1 lets even token Vehicles attack with minimal board investment
Weaknesses
- Heavily commander-dependent; without Astor the deck plays at full equip/crew costs
- Equipment voltron strategies fold to a single removal spell or board wipe on the equipped creature
- Light on card advantage and interaction outside of equipment payoffs
- Vulnerable to artifact removal and Stony Silence / Collector Ouphe effects
Key Cards
- Sigarda's Aid — Flash and free equip turns Astor's discount into instant-speed attach-and-ambush combat tricks.
- Puresteel Paladin — With three artifacts equip becomes free and it draws a card off every equipment cast.
- Stoneforge Mystic — Tutors your best Equipment to hand and cheats it into play, a perfect fit for the toolbox.
- Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist — Moves multiple equipment for free each turn, multiplying Astor's reattachment value.
- Smuggler's Copter — Crews for 1 under Astor, loots, and is a resilient evasive threat that survives wraths.
Upgrade Path
Add the Sword cycle (Fire and Ice, Feast and Famine, War and Peace) for protection and value, plus free-equip enablers like Sigarda's Aid and Ardenn to weaponize Astor's discount. Improve consistency with tutors (Stoneforge Mystic, Steelshaper's Gift, Open the Armory) and resilience via Hammer of Nazahn or indestructible-granting gear. Trim narrow Vehicles for premium ones like Smuggler's Copter and Skysovereign, and add ramp like Sword of the Animist to power out your threats faster.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Commander damage via a stacked, evasive equipped creature
- ▸Wide attacks from crewed Vehicles plus equipped tokens
- ▸Grinding repeated combat value with Swords of X and Y triggers
Archetypes
- Equipment Voltron — Cheap equip costs let you stack swords and buffs onto one creature for fast commander-damage kills.
- Vehicles Aggro — Crew 1 turns your fleet of Vehicles into an efficient, board-wipe-resistant attacking force.
- Boros Aggro Midrange — Astor provides selection and a mana-efficient combat plan to go wide and tall simultaneously.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
