Mana Drain is cheap, hits everything, and can potentially help cast Bruna a second time maybe. We are only running seven, because of the number of auras needed to make Bruna a more consistent threat. The counterspells are your catch-all protection spells, keeping both Bruna and you safe. In order to quash those plans, there are a few cards in here solely to help Bruna out. So Bruna is scary, and as such people will try to keep her off the board or out of the red zone. Your powerful games will generally involve one of these cards. Haste is something that is rarely granted outside of red cards, so these equipment and their cheap equip costs do a lot of heavy lifting for the deck. The deck runs two equipment, Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots. Attacking with Bruna, dumping five cards on her, and then drawing five more cards is a really powerful sequence. Sage's Reverie is one of the more powerful auras in the deck, as in addition to making Bruna stronger it also can draw you a decent chunk of cards. All of the umbras, as well as Diplomatic Immunity, Shielded by Faith are in there largely to keep Bruna safe (the umbras do provide a power boost if you are looking to cobble together a high damage Bruna). Ethereal Armor, Auramancer's Guise, Mantle of the Ancients, and Battle Mastery all help get big power jumps by themselves. Some games you don't find the busted auras, and some games you just don't find your tutors, and when those games happen there are a bunch of other auras that can make Bruna nice and scary. Everything else is to help keep Bruna safe or provide an alternative to the initial combo. Typically you are search for the first two cards and maybe one of the unblockable auras. To ensure this attack connects, a third aura like Faith Unbroken, Holy Mantle, or Steel of the Godhead can do the job. Conscription alone gets you to lethal infect damage, and trample can help that damage get through. The money combination is Eldrazi Conscription and Corrupted Conscience. The rest are there sort of as a backup plan for the eventual removal spell from your opponent. We have a bunch of auras in the deck, but are really looking for about four of them. So there are Twenty-two auras in this deck, but most of them do the same thing (make Bruna bigger) and are included for the same reason, because Commander is a singleton format. Non-artifacts such as Knight of the White Orchid, Loyal Warhound, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, and Tithe also go here, as their inclusion is because of mana (though Grand Arbiter does mess with your opponents too). Diamond Lion does its best impression of just its eye, but is held back a bit by costing two and having summoning sickness. Without having to pitch your hand, Jeweled Lotus likewise allows for some quick starts. Since she can grab auras from your graveyard, pitching them to LED doesn't really hurt your game plan. It's inclusion is entirely due to Bruna's ability. Lion's Eye Diamond is the card that makes the blisteringly quick starts possible. There are a bunch of them at two mana and below, in order to help Bruna make an entrance as soon as possible. Since we are so light on lands, mana rocks and their equivalent are obviously where many of them went. In my past experience, once players know you cannot play Bruna again they often leave you alone, meaning a Command Beacon sandbagged in your hand can catch them off guard. Command Beacon can help in these situations, only once obviously, but sometimes once is all you need. Bruna stats out costing six mana, and after playing her two times the deck strains to find the mana for time number three. Hall of the Bandit Lord is in here for the haste, since the options available to Blue/White are pretty limited.Ĭommand Beacon is sort of a worst-case scenario card. While most of the lands are pretty straightforward (they make mana, typically of one to two colors), there are one or two to note. We are only running 34 lands, with as many as possible coming in untapped in order to facilitate getting Bruna out ASAP. The deck's land count is pretty low to the ground, at least for me.
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