Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
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Aron is a go-wide aristocrats commander that turns your expendable creatures into team-wide buffs. Flood the board with tokens and small bodies, then repeatedly sacrifice them to Aron to pump your whole team, ideally while squeezing extra value out of each death trigger. You close games by swinging with a buffed, menacing army backed by drain effects.
Repeatable anthem-on-a-stick that snowballs board states quickly
Built-in evasion via menace makes Aron a real attacker and counter target
Aristocrats synergy turns every death into value and damage
Cheap three-mana commander that's easy to recast
Wrath-vulnerable: a board wipe undoes all the +1/+1 counter investment
Activation is mana-intensive (WB plus tap) and only once per turn without untappers
Needs a steady supply of fodder or it does nothing
Limited card advantage in BW compared to other aristocrats colors
Doubles your token output, dramatically increasing available sacrifice fodder.
Add free sacrifice outlets (Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer) and token engines to keep fodder flowing without relying solely on Aron's tap. Lean into combo finishes with payoff stacks like Blood Artist effects plus a sac loop, and improve card draw with Skullclamp and Midnight Reaper to refuel. Finally, run protection and recursion (Teferi's Protection, Reanimate) to survive the board wipes that punish this counter-based strategy.
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Human
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