Faithful Squire // Kaiso, Memory of Loyalty

Gameplan

A mono-white flip commander that wants to cast Spirit and Arcane spells to load ki counters, flip into Kaiso for an evasive 4/4 flyer, then leverage damage prevention to push through. In practice it's a budget-friendly white aggro/voltron build that uses cheap fliers, equipment, and protection to grind out combat damage.

Key Cards

• Swords to Plowshares — Premier white removal to clear blockers or threats while you push voltron damage.
• Eight-and-a-Half-Tails — A white Spirit that adds ki triggers and gives protection from any color, layering on Kaiso's defense.
• Smothering Tithe — One of mono-white's few real ramp/card-advantage engines to keep pace.
• Skullclamp — Critical card-draw engine to offset white's notoriously poor refueling.
• Sram, Senior Edificer — Draws a card off every equipment/aura, fueling a voltron plan around Kaiso.

Upgrade Path

Lean into a voltron shell with efficient equipment (Lightning Greaves, Sword of Fire and Ice, Batterskull) and card-draw enablers like Sram and Puresteel Paladin to outpace white's weak refueling. Add more ki enablers and protection (Eight-and-a-Half-Tails, Mother of Runes, Flawless Maneuver), plus mana rocks and Smothering Tithe for ramp. To push power further, include extra-combat effects like Aurelia's payoff or Sword of Feast and Famine and tutors such as Stoneforge Mystic and Steelshaper's Gift.