Bruse Tarl, Roving Rancher

Gameplan

Bruse Tarl attacks to generate value—impulse-drawing spells or making 2/2 Oxen with double strike—and snowballs a wide, aggressive board in Boros colors. You curve out, attack repeatedly to trigger his ability, and either go wide with double-striking Oxen or convert impulse draws into more pressure and burn.

Key Cards

• Anointed Procession — Doubles your Ox token production for each land you exile.
• Impact Tremors — Each Ox entering pings every opponent, adding a noncombat damage clock to a wide board.
• Cathars' Crusade — Every Ox token enters and pumps your whole team, turning go-wide into lethal fast.
• Dolmen Gate — Lets your Oxen and Bruse attack freely without fear of profitable blocks.
• Sword of Feast and Famine — Gives Bruse evasion plus untaps your lands so impulse-drawn spells get cast same turn.
• Etali, Primal Storm — A huge attacker whose own impulse-cascade synergizes with Bruse's value-on-attack plan.

Upgrade Path

Add token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak), anthem/aristocrat payoffs (Cathars' Crusade, Purphoros, Impact Tremors), and evasion enablers (Dolmen Gate, Iroas, God of Victory) so your board actually connects. Lean into mana rocks and rituals to cast multiple impulse-drawn cards per turn, and pick up protective pieces like Heroic Intervention or Boros Charm to survive the board wipes that punish go-wide. For higher power, prioritize free attack triggers via extra-combat effects (Aggravated Assault, Combat Celebrant) to multiply both tokens and impulse value.