BorosLegendary Creature — Human Assassin WarriorKassandra, Eagle Bearer
Mana value3Rank#6,995
The Commander
Haste
When Kassandra enters, search your graveyard, hand, and library for a card named The Spear of Leonidas, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Whenever a creature you control with a legendary Equipment attached to it deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Guide
Gameplan
Suit up Kassandra (or another creature) with The Spear of Leonidas and other legendary Equipment, swing in with haste, and draw a card every time an equipped creature connects to refuel your aggression. You're a midrange equipment-aggro deck that snowballs card advantage off combat damage, turning a single legendary Equipment into a card-draw engine.
Strengths
- Free, guaranteed Equipment on ETB via The Spear of Leonidas tutor—your engine is always online
- Built-in card advantage that scales with multiple equipped attackers
- Haste lets Kassandra pressure immediately and refill on the turn she lands
- RW gives access to cheap, efficient equipment, anthem, and extra-combat effects
Weaknesses
- Heavily commander/equipment-dependent—removal or recurring bounce on Kassandra slows you badly
- Card draw only triggers on legendary Equipment, narrowing your gear choices
- No interaction or ramp baked in; RW lacks strong card advantage and recursion outside combat
- Vulnerable to board wipes and creature-based blockers that stall your attackers
Key Cards
- The Spear of Leonidas — Your free tutored legendary Equipment that turns on the draw trigger and grows your creature.
- Sword of Fire and Ice — Legendary Equipment that adds protection, damage, and a second card off the same combat hit.
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Legendary Equipment offering protection, hand disruption, and untapping lands for explosive turns.
- Embercleave — Cheap, game-ending legendary Equipment that grants double strike to push lethal and double your draw triggers.
- Sigarda's Aid — Lets you flash Equipment in and auto-attach for free, attacking with surprise legendary gear.
- Puresteel Paladin — Free equip costs and card draw on artifact ETBs supercharge an equipment-centric build.
Upgrade Path
Lean into cheap legendary Equipment (the Mirran swords, Embercleave, Kaldra Compleat) plus free-equip enablers like Puresteel Paladin and Sigarda's Aid to maximize triggers. Add protection and evasion—Swiftfoot Boots, Whispersilk Cloak—so Kassandra survives and connects, and include extra-combat effects like Aggravated Assault to double your draw and damage. Round out with efficient ramp and a few targeted removal/board-wipe answers since RW struggles with resilience.
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
- ▸Voltron commander damage with stacked legendary swords and double strike from Embercleave
- ▸Wide equipped board overwhelming opponents while refueling via combat draws
- ▸Repeated extra combats turning equipped creatures into lethal, card-drawing engines
Archetypes
- Voltron — Stack legendary Equipment on Kassandra to make her a hasty, evasive, card-drawing threat.
- Equipment Aggro — Multiple equipped attackers each generate draws, flooding the board with pressure and cards.
- Aggro Midrange — RW beats and steady card advantage off combat damage keep you ahead of slower decks.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
