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Boromir, Warden of the Tower
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {2}{W} · White commander
Vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
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What Boromir, Warden of the Tower actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
- Activated abilitySacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
What a Boromir, Warden of the Tower deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 8× Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 8× Get your board back after a wipe
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 6× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 8× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
Best cards for Boromir, Warden of the Tower
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Boromir, Warden of the Tower3 mana
- Scrawling Crawler3 mana
- Tataru Taru2 mana
- Trouble in Pairs4 mana
- Monologue Tax3 mana
- Wedding Ring4 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Chromatic Lantern3 mana
- Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
- Eye of Ugin0 mana
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
Get your board back after a wipe
- Resurgent Belief0 mana
- Ascend from Avernus3 mana
- Raise the Past4 mana
- Archangel Elspeth4 mana
- Replenish4 mana
- Rally the Ancestors2 mana
- Brilliant Restoration7 mana
- Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Felidar Guardian4 mana
- Restoration Angel4 mana
- Teleportation Circle4 mana
A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Grand Abolisher2 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Ghostly Prison3 mana
- Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
- Blind Obedience2 mana
- Drannith Magistrate2 mana
- Voice of Victory2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Final Showdown1 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Martyr's Cry2 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Cathedral Membrane2 mana
- Citywide Bust3 mana
- Harsh Mercy3 mana
- Retribution of the Meek3 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Lotus Field0 mana
- Riveteers Overlook0 mana
- Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
- Soul Warden1 mana
- Soul's Attendant1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mana Tithe1 mana
- Rebuff the Wicked1 mana
- Dawn Charm2 mana
- Frontline Medic3 mana
- Lapse of Certainty3 mana
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion10 mana
- Not of This World7 mana
- Equinox1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Flicker of Fate2 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Getaway Glamer1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
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