The Commander
Flying, vigilance, haste
: The next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature you control this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.
Guide
Gameplan
Razia is an 8-mana flying, vigilance, haste beater that can swing for 6 the turn she lands while using her ability to redirect combat or burn damage off your creatures onto opposing threats. Most decks treat her as a Boros midrange/aggro general, flooding the board with efficient creatures and burn while she protects your team and punishes blockers. You win by attacking relentlessly and turning damage into removal.
Strengths
- Immediately threatens 6 evasive damage thanks to haste and flying, and stays back to block with vigilance.
- Damage redirection lets your creatures survive combat while shifting that damage to kill opposing creatures.
- Synergizes with high-power creatures, deathtouch, and pingers to redirect lethal amounts onto multiple threats.
- Color identity gives access to Boros's best removal, equipment, and go-wide payoffs.
Weaknesses
- Eight mana is a steep cost and she's a removal magnet the moment she lands.
- The redirect only handles damage—it does nothing against the format's many sacrifice, exile, and -X/-X effects.
- Boros's traditional weaknesses (no card advantage, no ramp) leave you running out of gas.
- Tapping to redirect competes with attacking and only works on creatures you control.
Key Cards
- Sun Titan — Recurs cheap creatures and removal to fight Boros's card-disadvantage problem.
- Basilisk Collar — Grants deathtouch so even small redirected damage becomes lethal removal.
- Boros Charm — Protects your board from wraths and adds reach to close games.
- Smothering Tithe — One of Boros's only real ramp/advantage engines to power out an 8-drop.
- Dolmen Gate — Lets your attackers connect freely while Razia's redirect punishes blockers anyway.
Upgrade Path
Lean into ramp and card advantage—add Smothering Tithe, Dockside Extortionist, Esper Sentinel, and fast mana so an 8-drop isn't a liability. Pair Razia's redirect with deathtouch enablers (Basilisk Collar, Gorgon Flail) and repeatable damage to turn her into a removal engine, then add protection like Teferi's Protection and Boros Charm. For higher power, build toward a focused equipment-Voltron or a tokens-plus-burn plan that wins before the 8-drop is even needed.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Beating down with evasive, equipped creatures while redirecting blocker damage.
- ▸Going wide with tokens and finishing via anthems or a Boros burn spell.
- ▸Commander damage from a suited-up Razia or another large flyer.
Archetypes
- Midrange Aggro — Razia caps a curve of efficient creatures and uses redirection as combat-trick removal.
- Voltron — Her flying, vigilance, and haste plus the redirect for protection make her a fine equipment carrier.
- Pingers/Damage Control — Sources of repeatable damage can be redirected by Razia to snipe creatures each turn.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
