BorosLegendary Creature — Human SoldierSophina, Spearsage Deserter
Mana value4Rank#14,303PartnerYes
The Commander
Menace
Whenever Sophina, Spearsage Deserter attacks, investigate once for each nontoken attacking creature. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Partner—Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
Guide
Gameplan
Sophina rewards going wide with real creatures: swing with a board of nontoken attackers and bury yourself in Clue tokens for card advantage. Convert those Clues into more threats, artifact synergies, or fuel for sacrifice payoffs, then close with an alpha strike. She plays as a midrange aggro engine that refuses to run out of gas.
Strengths
- Generates repeatable card advantage just by attacking, fixing aggro's biggest weakness
- Menace makes her hard to chump-block, so attacks reliably connect and trigger
- Friends forever lets you pair her with a second RW commander for flexibility
- Clue tokens enable artifact and sacrifice synergies beyond just card draw
Weaknesses
- Clue payoff is mana-hungry: each to crack adds up and can clog your turns
- Rewards nontoken attackers, so it fights against pure go-wide token strategies
- RW lacks ramp and reactive interaction, so faster combo decks can outpace you
- Board wipes hit hard since the strategy leans on committing creatures to the table
Key Cards
- Academy Manufactor — Triples every Clue trigger into Clues, Treasures, and Food, exploding both card draw and ramp.
- Reckoner Bankbuster — Cheap repeatable Clue/artifact value and a creature that pressures while you build the board.
- Smothering Tithe — Treasures pour in alongside Clues, solving Sophina's mana strain for cracking artifacts.
- Wedding Announcement — Floods the board with nontoken-supporting bodies and rewards attacking, perfectly on-plan.
- Anointed Procession — Doubles your Clue output, turning each attack into a massive card-advantage windfall.
- Krark-Clan Ironworks — Sacrifices Clues for mana to power explosive turns and feed artifact combos.
Upgrade Path
Add mana rocks and Treasure makers (Smothering Tithe, Dockside Extortionist) so cracking Clues never stalls your turns. Lean into doublers (Anointed Procession, Academy Manufactor, Mondrak) and artifact-sacrifice payoffs to convert Clues into wins faster. Finally, tighten the curve with cheap evasive attackers and an Overrun-style finisher to close before slower combo decks set up.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Alpha strike with a wide, menace-supported board buffed by anthems
- ▸Overrun-style mass haste/trample finishers like Craterhoof or Cathars' Crusade
- ▸Artifact-count combos and value engines powered by Clue tokens
- ▸Grinding opponents out with relentless card advantage and incremental damage
Archetypes
- Aggro Midrange — Menace plus a wide board of real creatures pressures life totals while Clues refill your hand.
- Artifacts — Constant Clue generation fuels artifact-count payoffs, sacrifice engines, and improvise.
- Aristocrats — Clues are free sacrifice fodder for Ironworks-style engines and artifact-death triggers.
- Tokens/Go-Wide — Anthem and token doublers turn a board of attackers into both damage and an avalanche of Clues.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RW), by popularity.
