BorosLegendary Creature — Human Assassin WarriorEivor, Battle-Ready
Mana value5Rank#8,285
The Commander
Guide
Gameplan
Eivor is a RW equipment-aggro commander that turns your suite of attached gear into a Pinger. Flood the board with cheap Equipment, attack with Eivor's vigilance and haste for repeatable direct damage to every opponent, and back it up with combat beats. You win by stacking Equipment count high and connecting in combat while the attack trigger chips life totals away.
Strengths
- Built-in haste and vigilance means immediate, low-risk attacks every turn
- Damage hits each opponent simultaneously, scaling well in multiplayer
- Equipment density also makes Eivor a fast Voltron threat
- Boros has deep, cheap equipment and equipment-matters support
Weaknesses
- Relies on Eivor sticking; heavy commander tax after repeated removal
- Equipment-heavy hands can be slow without payoffs on board
- No card advantage engine in the color identity beyond equipment cantrips
- Vulnerable to board wipes and artifact destruction stripping your gear
Key Cards
- Sigarda's Aid — Flash and free-attach Equipment lets you ramp Eivor's attack count at instant speed.
- Puresteel Paladin — Free equip with metalcraft and card draw turns an equipment-dense board into an engine.
- Stoneforge Mystic — Cheats heavy Equipment into play and fetches your best gear to pad the attack trigger.
- Brass Squire — Repeatedly moves Equipment for free, keeping your count and Eivor's buffs flowing.
- Bruenor Battlehammer — Free equip each turn plus a huge buff per equipped creature accelerates the equipment plan.
- Nettlecyst — A cheap living-weapon Equipment that also scales the rest of your artifact count.
Upgrade Path
Add free or cost-reducing equip enablers (Puresteel Paladin, Sigarda's Aid, Brass Squire, Bruenor) so you can deploy more Equipment per turn and maximize the trigger. Lean into extra-combat effects like Aggravated Assault and Combat Celebrant, plus protection like Swiftfoot Boots and Lightning Greaves, to make Eivor connect every turn. Tighten the curve with cheap, value-dense Equipment and add Open the Armory/Steelshaper's Gift tutors to assemble your best gear consistently.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Repeated attack-trigger damage to all opponents scaling with Equipment count
- ▸Voltron commander damage with stacked Equipment and combat buffs
- ▸Extra-combat and double-strike effects multiplying the attack trigger
Archetypes
- Equipment Aggro — Eivor's trigger rewards raw Equipment count, making a wide gear suite both the engine and the payoff.
- Voltron — Stacking Equipment on a vigilant, hasty Eivor pressures life totals through combat and triggers.
- Boros Aggro — Haste and multiplayer reach let Eivor lead a fast, go-tall RW beatdown deck.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
