MTG Salvation

Quote from Carthage »

It certainly won't be broken in EDH. In legacy and modern, perhaps.
It's a 3 drop with a conditional can't play lands ability that emphasises basics, AND is stapled to a 2/1 body that's pretty easy to kill (note that territorial dispute, limited resources and worms of the earth are all enchantments which are harder to deal with).

It would be banned before it even saw play. There are so many casual edh decks that run almost no basic lands.

Simply: Land, chrome mox, simian spirit guide, general, you can't play lands for the rest of the game because I was on the play.

The card would be broken in half for casual and competitive play in the worst way, denying people the ability to play their decks.

I think a combination of the Thalia’s would be better:

Angry Thalia
2RW
3/2
Double strike
Creatures, non-basic lands, and artifacts your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
Noncreature spells cost 1 more to cast.

Quote from Shadow345 »

I don't want to turn sideways.

Then why are you looking at Boros? Just sayin'.

Look at Aurelia, The Warleader. Even with the extra high life totals and multiple players of Commander you throw in some Double Strike ( Duelist's Heritage ) on top of Double Damage ( Dictate of the Twin Gods or Charging Tuskodon ] and throw in a Heartless Hidetsugu then those high life totals are going to look pretty low in next to no time.

Every color combination can turn sideways.

• Sidisi, brood tyrant
  
• Kopala, warden of waves
  
• Ulamog, the ceaseless hunger

Think of all the things that Sultai, mono blue, and colorless can do in Commander: combo, control, voltron, tribal, midrange, etc. But Boros can only turn sideways? Isn’t every color and color combination supposed to have depth? Isn’t it strange that colorless has better card draw than Boros?

The RW Nahiri would be an awesome Boros Commander that isn’t broken and would allow for a Boros control deck. A Boros commander that lets you draw a card every time you cast a spell that’s both red and white would have deckbuilding restrictions but also give Boros some much needed card draw.

Boros aggro is badly outclassed by Edgar Markov, Krenko, and some Mono white strategies. Right now there is no advantage to playing Boros. It would be nice if in C19 we could get a new kind of Boros commander that allows players to try a strategy that isn’t supported right now.

Boros lacks card draw. Something like:

Boros Captain
RW
2/2
First strike
Whenever you play a spell that is red and white, draw a card.

Also, I like the idea of the Boros Nahiri being a commander.