Helldivers 2 — For Democracy

Commanded by Democracy Officer Elias Halstrom, this Boros (red/white) 100-Card Commander Deck is about a war fought by an expendable budget line. Super Earth calls its firepower down from orbit, so it arrives late and lands everywhere, including on your own squad, and the army is drawn from a reserve that only goes down. Halstrom is an administrator, not a soldier: he pays you a Helldiver for every Stratagem you call, and a card and 2 life from each opponent for every one that lands.

• Stratagem: fifteen instants and sorceries are exiled with a delay counter when cast and go off at your next upkeep. Their zone is every creature the target player controls and every creature you control. No Stratagem can be aimed only at an opponent: you announce the strike a turn early, in front of the table, and spend the turn in between deciding which of your own creatures you leave standing in it.
• Reinforcements: you start with twenty reinforcement counters. Whenever a creature of yours dies, one comes off and a 2/1 Helldiver token takes its place. No card in the deck adds a counter back, and once the pool is empty the next death sacrifices every token you control. The number you write down on turn one is the largest you will ever have.
• Two combos: The Quota — Skullclamp, Ordnance Loader and Reinforcements draw two cards per dead soldier, exactly twenty times. Danger Close — Goblin Bombardment and Hellpod Impact spend the whole reserve as damage to every opponent and end with your board sacrificed, which is the correct way for this deck to win.

Why Boros

Red is the ordnance and nothing else: the 380mm barrage, the Eagle's single pass, the Hellbomb with thirty seconds on its arming panel. Red here is not rage, it is expenditure. White is the paperwork that makes the ordnance legal — the Ministry of Truth, the recruitment desk, the quota, the medal struck in advance, and a rank and file created in bulk as tokens, because that is how the Ministry counts them. Fifteen cards carry Stratagem and fourteen carry Reinforcements.

A complete 100-card Commander deck plus 5 tokens, tuned for Bracket 4, available as a digital print-yourself edition or a printed physical deck, and offered in 10 languages.