The Commander
Other Soldiers you control have vigilance, trample, and haste.
: Until end of turn, Soldiers you control gain "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to defending player."
Guide
Gameplan
Commander Mustard is a Boros Soldier-tribal aggro deck: flood the board with Soldier tokens and creatures, hand them all vigilance, trample, and haste so they attack immediately without going defenseless, then overrun the table. Turns 1-4 build out a wide team with cheap producers and anthems, then alpha strike repeatedly while the activated ability tacks on guaranteed direct damage to finish players you can't get through.
Strengths
- Grants haste to your whole Soldier army, so freshly made tokens swing the turn they arrive
- Vigilance lets you attack and still hold the fort, ideal for a wide aggressive board
- Trample makes chump blocking nearly useless and pushes anthem buffs through
- The ability adds inevitable direct damage that closes out games even through gummed-up boards
- Boros has cheap, efficient token makers and powerful go-wide payoffs
Weaknesses
- Folds hard to a single board wipe given the all-in token strategy
- No native card advantage in Boros without dedicated support
- The activated ability is mana-hungry and competes with deploying threats
- Vulnerable to fog effects, mass removal, and lifegain stalls
- If the commander is removed your team loses haste/trample/vigilance, slowing the clock
Key Cards
- Adeline, Resplendent Cathar — Pumps out a Soldier-flavored token for each opponent on attack, snowballing a wide board that all gets Mustard's keywords.
- Field Marshal — Anthem for Soldiers granting first strike and +1/+1, turning your token swarm into a brutal combat force.
- Captain of the Watch — Makes three Soldier tokens and gives Soldiers vigilance and +1/+1, a perfect one-card army boost.
- Brimaz, King of Oreskos — Generates Soldier-style Cat tokens on attack and block, providing a recurring, resilient board presence.
- Darien, King of Kjeldor — Turns incoming damage into a flood of Soldier tokens, both rebuilding after wipes and going extremely wide.
- Heroic Reinforcements — Two haste Soldiers and a team-wide buff, a clean go-wide finisher in Mustard colors.
Upgrade Path
Add more token-doublers and anthems like Anointed Procession, Intangible Virtue, and Mondrak, Glory Dominus to multiply your board, plus Skullclamp and Welcoming Vampire for token-fueled card draw. Shore up the board-wipe weakness with protection (Heroic Intervention, Flawless Maneuver) and rebuild engines like Assemble the Legion. Tighten the mana with fast Boros lands and a low curve so you can deploy and still hold up the activated ability for reach.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Alpha strike with a wide, hasty, trampling Soldier board buffed by anthems
- ▸Pile on the ability so attacking Soldiers ping each defending player to death
- ▸Overrun-style finishers (Craterhoof-like or Coordinated Charge effects) pushing lethal trample damage
Archetypes
- Soldier Tribal Aggro — Mustard directly buffs Soldiers with three keywords, rewarding a critical mass of Soldier producers and lords.
- Go-Wide Tokens — Trample and haste on every token make mass token generation an immediate, hard-to-block threat.
- Voltron/Mass Pump — Anthems and overrun effects scale across the wide board, with the activated ability adding reach.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
