MTG Salvation

Move Over, Sram. I’ve got a new Mono White Enchantress to work with… and it’s not half-bad, either. Light-paws is a 2/2 Fox Advisor for 2 with “whenever a aura enters the battlefield under your control, if you cast it, you may search your library for an aura card with mana value less than or equal to that aura and with different name than each aura you control, then put that card onto the battlefield attached to Light paws, Emperor's voice, then shuffle”

This card excites me for a number of reasons, though I suppose that I should start with my tentative decklist for the 99.


So… what do I like so much about this commander in the first place?

1. This Deck Moves Quickly and Reliably:
While Sram is more reliable in providing card advantage and equipment generally advance a board state more than auras, Sram offers card advantage while Light-Paws offers nearly perfect card selection, which allows for some VERY aggressive and scary lines of play.
Imagine starting game with 3 plains, an all that glitters and a battle mastery in your hand. Powerful but not exactly “magical Christmasland”. When the Glitter seeks out Daybreak Coronet and Mastery seeks out Ethereal armor and you attack with a 13/13 flying, doublestriking commander on turn four to one-shot a player, though, that feels nice. It is a perfectly fair line of play, giving opponents ample chance to respond, and isn’t remotely a cEDH approach.
2. Recontextualizing Auras
Light-Paws effectively recontextualizes the use of four different categories of aura (which aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive, btw).
A: Reusable auras (whether from the graveyard like spirit loop or from play like conviction) are important in that each rotation lets you tutor your deck for whatever you need or rebuild after a wrath or kill spell.
B: “Prison” auras (like bound in gold or darksteel mutation) allow you to lock down an opponent’s creature while fetching a second, beneficial aura for Light-Paws.
C: Auras with flash (like Cho-Manno’s Blessing or timely ward) allow you to fetch out one of your other auras onto Light-paws at instant speed.
D: Auras that cantrip (like Angelic Gift and Chosen by Heliod allow you to throw down your best aura for that mana value or less without suffering card disadvantage.
E: As an extra note, counterspell decks would have some problems with light-paws as the aura you fetch never uses the stack. If your control enemy wants to stop you from getting a specific aura in your deck onto Light-paws, they need to counter every counterspell you have.
3. Simple Gameplay Loop
I like playing glass-cannon Voltron decks. It has a lot of very linear plays but needs to account for its own fragility through numerous protection cards and a number of ways to recover and rebuild when your commander inevitably does get hit with a well-timed pongify or beast within.

Might want to run some Aura recursion in case your Commander dies or is forced to be sent to the Command Zone. Maybe run stuff like Second Sunrise, Faith's Reward, Retether, and Resurgent Belief. You could also run Ajani's Chosen If you want to go for an Aggro approach. Auratog with Rogue's Passage seems kinda funny in here as well.

Already Running resurgent belief along with mantle of the ancients, hall of Heliod’s generosity, and mistveil plains (bottom of library might as well be your hand when you have repeating tutors).