BorosLegendary Creature — Human ArtificerPia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Mana value2Rank#6,195
The Commander
Thopters you control have haste.
Whenever you play a land from exile or cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Guide
Gameplan
Pia Nalaar turns impulsive exile-and-play effects into a steady stream of hasty flying Thopters. You set up cheap impulse-draw and exile engines, cast everything off the top of your library to flood the board with attackers, then overrun with anthems or sacrifice the swarm for value. The deck wins through repeated incremental advantage and a wide, evasive army.
Strengths
- Generates evasive flying tokens for free off cards you were already going to cast
- Built-in haste makes every Thopter immediately relevant for offense or blocking
- Cheap two-mana commander that snowballs quickly and is easy to recast
- Synergizes with Boros's deep pool of impulse-draw effects that are otherwise underused
- Token swarm plays well with anthems, sacrifice, and artifact payoffs
Weaknesses
- Wide boards are extremely vulnerable to sweepers like Wrath of God and Blasphemous Act
- Thopters are 1/1s, so the deck stalls hard without anthems or evasion payoffs
- Boros lacks ramp and card draw outside of impulse effects, leading to inconsistency
- Removal-heavy metas can strip Pia and slow the engine to a crawl
- Triggers are gated behind playing cards specifically from exile, requiring careful deck curation
Key Cards
- Wandering Archaic — Doubles as a tax piece while you build a board that punishes spellcasting.
- Etali, Primal Storm — Casts multiple spells from exile in one swing, generating a flock of Thopters.
- Outpost Siege — Repeatable impulse draw that triggers Pia every upkeep on the Khans mode.
- Birgi, God of Storytelling — Her Harnfel side and ritual support fuel casting cards from exile for extra Thopters.
- Skullclamp — Turns your endless 1/1 Thopters into a card-draw engine that refuels the gas.
- Coordinated Assault — Cheap anthem-style pumps and overrun effects convert your flying swarm into lethal damage.
Upgrade Path
Lean harder into repeatable impulse-draw (Wild-Magic Sorcerer, Glorious Sunrise effects, Valakut Exploration) so Pia triggers every turn rather than occasionally. Add token doublers like Anointed Procession and Mondrak, Glory Dominus plus a couple of overrun finishers to convert the swarm into reliable kills. Round out with Boros ramp rocks (Arcane Signet, Boros Signet) and protection like Heroic Intervention to survive the board wipes your go-wide plan invites.
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
- ▸Swarming with hasty flying Thopters backed by anthems like Intangible Virtue or Anointed Procession
- ▸Overrun effects and mass pump for a single lethal alpha strike
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Bastion of Remembrance or Zulaport Cutthroat sacrificing Thopters
- ▸Artifact synergy payoffs such as Reckless Fireweaver pinging the table as tokens enter
Archetypes
- Tokens — Pia passively churns out flying Thopters whenever you cast from exile, building a wide board.
- Impulse / Exile-matters — Every impulse-draw and exile-cast effect doubles as a token generator under Pia.
- Aristocrats — The endless supply of expendable Thopters fuels sacrifice outlets and drain payoffs.
- Aggro Go-wide — Hasty fliers plus anthems let you pressure the table immediately and close fast.
Combos
- Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival + Eternal Scourge + Rest in Peace + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens with haste, Infinite ETB
- Cadric, Soul Kindler + Mondrak, Glory Dominus + Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival + Professional Face-Breaker + Prosperous Partnership
→ Cast all spells in your library, Exile your library, Near-infinite colored mana
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
