The Commander
Affinity for Equipment (This spell costs 
less to cast for each Equipment you control.)
Whenever an equipped creature you control attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. You may cast Equipment spells this way without paying their mana costs.
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with cheap Equipment, suit up creatures, and attack to exile cards off the top each combat—casting any Equipment among them for free. You snowball board advantage and card flow while reducing your costs via Affinity, then close with a wide equipped team or a single oversized threat.
Strengths
- Free Equipment casts on attack generate huge tempo and board presence
- Affinity for Equipment lets you deploy threats and Nahiri herself cheaply
- Repeatable card advantage every combat without needing extra payment for Equipment
- Plays both go-wide aggro and Voltron single-target beatdown well
Weaknesses
- Relies on connecting in combat—blockers, fog, and board wipes stall the engine
- Creature-light or Equipment-light draws fizzle the attack trigger
- Vulnerable to commander removal and artifact/equipment hate (Vandalblast, Stony Silence)
- Top-of-library exile triggers can whiff on lands or unplayable cards
Key Cards
- Sigarda's Aid — Lets you flash in Equipment and attach for free, enabling instant-speed combat surprises and free attaches.
- Puresteel Paladin — Free Equipment attaches with metalcraft and draws on every Equipment cast, multiplying Nahiri's value.
- Stoneforge Mystic — Tutors and cheats powerful Equipment into play, fueling Affinity and attack triggers.
- Bruenor Battlehammer — Slashes Equipment costs and pumps equipped creatures for explosive go-wide turns.
- Open the Armory — Tutors any key Equipment to set up Voltron or combo pieces consistently.
- Colossus Hammer — A one-mana Equipment that turns any creature into a lethal threat, perfect with free-attach effects.
Upgrade Path
Add efficient tutors (Stoneforge Mystic, Steelshaper's Gift, Open the Armory) and free-attach enablers (Sigarda's Aid, Bruenor, Puresteel Paladin) to maximize triggers. Improve evasion and protection on your carrier with cards like Swiftfoot Boots and Whispersilk Cloak, and lower your curve with one-mana Equipment to abuse Affinity. Round out with extra-combat and untap effects (Aggravated Assault, Sword of Feast and Famine) to chain attack triggers into runaway advantage.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Commander or single-creature Voltron damage with stacked Equipment and evasion
- ▸Going wide with multiple equipped creatures for lethal alpha strikes
- ▸Snowballing card and board advantage off attack triggers until opponents are overwhelmed
- ▸Equipment-fueled combos like Colossus Hammer plus free attachers for one-shot kills
Archetypes
- Equipment Aggro — Cheap Equipment and Affinity let you flood the board and beat down while exiling cards each combat.
- Voltron — Loading a single evasive creature with Equipment and free attaches enables commander-damage kills.
- Artifact Tokens/Go-Wide — Equipment-matters payoffs and token makers let you swing with a wide equipped team.
- Value Combo — Free Equipment casts on attack combine with cost reducers and untap/extra-combat effects to chain advantage.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
