The Commander
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: Another target creature you control gains flying and lifelink until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the spell's mana value is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Guide
Gameplan
Bre turns lifegain into free spells: each turn you gain life (easily via her own lifelink-granting ability), then your end step exiles cards until you hit a nonland and lets you cast it free if its mana value is at or below the life gained that turn. Build a wide, life-gaining board, swing for chunks of life with a lifelink attacker, and snowball into free big spells and extra value every end step.
Strengths
- Repeatable free spells/card advantage every end step you gain life
- Her flying+lifelink grant pushes through evasive lifelink damage to gain large amounts quickly
- Naturally hard to interact with since the advantage comes off your own combat
- RW lifegain has deep, cheap support and aggressive curve options
Weaknesses
- Reliant on the commander's tap ability or other lifegain to turn on the end-step trigger
- Cast-for-free is capped by life gained, so big payoffs need big life swings
- Tap ability is sorcery-speed and uses Bre, exposing her to removal
- Can stumble against go-wide aggro and lifegain hate (Tainted Remedy, Erebos)
Key Cards
- Archangel of Thune — Each lifegain trigger pumps your team, snowballing life totals and enabling huge free casts.
- Sanguine Bond — Converts your gained life into direct damage as a backup win condition.
- Heliod, Sun-Crowned — Doubles your lifegain to inflate the mana value you can cast for free.
- Felidar Sovereign — A natural lifegain win condition the deck supports without much effort.
- Bloodthirsty Adversary — Cheap evasive attacker that becomes a lifelink threat to fuel large end-step casts.
Upgrade Path
Prioritize lifegain doublers (Heliod, Sun-Crowned; Boon Reflection; Rhox Faithmender) and per-trigger payoffs (Archangel of Thune, Cleric Class) so single combats gain enough life to cast bombs free. Add cheap reliable evasion and protection for Bre, plus drain finishers like Sanguine Bond and Vizkopa Guildmage to convert excess life into kills. Tighten the curve with strong free-cast targets (Sun Titan, Combat Celebrant, Approach of the Second Sun) and ramp like Smothering Tithe to outpace the table.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Drain opponents out with Sanguine Bond / Vizkopa Guildmage style lifegain-to-damage
- ▸Win outright with Felidar Sovereign or Approach of the Second Sun cast for free
- ▸Beat down with a buffed, evasive lifelink board built up by Bre's grants
Archetypes
- Lifegain Midrange — Bre rewards every life-gaining trigger with free spells, making lifegain payoffs the core engine.
- Aggro/Voltron-lite — Granting flying and lifelink to a big attacker swings life totals enough to cast expensive cards free.
- Value Cascade — Even without big life gains the end step refills your hand, fueling a grindy card-advantage plan.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
