The Commander
Attacking tokens you control have double strike.
Whenever one or more tokens you control attack a player, exile the top card of your library. During any turn you attacked with a token, you may play that card.
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with creature tokens, then swing wide—your attacking tokens all gain double strike, doubling your damage output and turning small tokens into real threats. Each combat with tokens exiles cards off the top of your library that you can play that turn, refueling your hand to outpace removal. You win by overwhelming the table with go-wide aggression backed by relentless impulse-draw card advantage.
Strengths
- Double strike on all attacking tokens makes even 1/1s hit for serious damage and synergizes with anthems and trample
- Built-in card advantage every combat keeps your gas flowing in aggressive RW, which normally runs out of cards
- Cheap four-mana commander that immediately impacts the board and rewards going wide
- Excellent with token doublers, anthem effects, and Boros aggro support
Weaknesses
- Vulnerable to board wipes—your whole strategy can be reset in one card
- Relies on resolving and protecting token generators; a slow start leaves Neyali exhausted
- No built-in evasion beyond double strike, so big blockers and fogs slow you down
- Card advantage is impulse-style, so it can be lost to discard timing and counts on actually attacking each turn
Key Cards
- Anointed Procession — Doubles every token you make, dramatically widening your board and your double-strike damage.
- Mondrak, Glory Dominus — Another token doubler that also protects your board, accelerating lethal go-wide turns.
- Ramping Up — Cheap repeatable token production keeps Neyali's army and impulse-draw engine fed.
- Skullclamp — Turns expendable 1/1 tokens into a massive card-draw engine to refill alongside Neyali.
- Hour of Reckoning — A one-sided wipe that spares your tokens, letting you stabilize and then alpha strike.
- Cathars' Crusade — Snowballs your whole token army with +1/+1 counters every time a creature enters.
Upgrade Path
Add more token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak, Parallel Lives) and anthems (Intangible Virtue, Cathars' Crusade) to maximize each combat's damage and Neyali's exile-draw. Improve mana with fast rocks and lean into overrun finishers like Craterhoof analog Bramble Sovereign or mass-pump effects, plus protective pieces like Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention to beat wraths. Tighten the curve so you reliably go wide by turn three or four and capitalize on Neyali's card flow before opponents stabilize.
Core Cards
- Soul-Guide Lantern
- Rip Apart
- Collective Effort
- Harmonious Archon
- Loyal Apprentice
- Roar of Resistance
- Temple of Triumph
- Boros Signet
- Forgotten Cave
- Otharri, Suns' Glory
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Battle Screech
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Wide alpha strike with double-strike tokens, often backed by an anthem or overrun effect
- ▸Cathars' Crusade or counter-pumping snowballing tokens into lethal sizes
- ▸Aristocrats drain (Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance) recouped by token sacrifice
- ▸Impulse-draw advantage grinding the table out then closing with sustained pressure
Archetypes
- Tokens / Go-Wide Aggro — Neyali rewards swarming the board and granting all your tokens double strike for explosive combat damage.
- Aristocrats — Cheap tokens fuel sacrifice outlets and drain effects while Neyali refuels your hand.
- Spellslinger Tokens — Treasure, Spirit, and elemental token spells trigger Neyali's draw while building a wide attack.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
