The 18 Best Boros Card Draw Cards in Magic Ranked

Last updated on March 21, 2026

Akiri, Fearless Voyager | Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak

Hello planeswalkers! Let’s rip through another exploration of the Boros guild (). Boros is known for being very aggressive. You can blitz your opponent with fast creatures that build off each other, and if that's not enough you have plenty of burn spells to finish off your opponent. Boros is a solid color guild that has been and will be popular for a long time.

One problem many Boros players run into is they can often lose to control decks that remove creatures and outdraw. To create a steadier Boros deck that can compete with many different styles of play, you need some draw cards.

Let's take a look at the Boros colored draw cards and a few staples for both white and red that can help get you a few more victories.

What Are Boros Draw Cards in MTG?

Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden | Illustration by Jeremy Wilson

There are a ton of good options in the white and red colors to get the cards you need in many different ways. For this article, I look at cards that provide a card draw and are both red and white. I highlight some of the best white and red draw spells along the way, but the main focus is the dual-color draw cards of Boros.

I do have one note: There are also great impulsive draw cards (that exile and use for one turn) in red, white, and Boros, but that's another list, on to the best Boros card draw!

#18. Nahiri, the Unforgiving

Nahiri, the Unforgiving is the lesser of the two Nahiris we’ll see today. It has a similar draw loyalty ability as Nahiri, the Harbinger, but I’m not overly thrilled with the other and final loyalty ability. This is a playable planeswalker because of the flexible mana value, but I think there are better planeswalker options for equipment-style decks.

#17. Kassandra, Eagle Bearer

The nuance I love about Kassandra, Eagle Bearer is that the creature doesn't need to be legendary for you to draw a card off its combat damage. The Spear of Leonidas is great, but don't forget about Mabel, Heir to Cragflame and Embercleave.

#16. Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot

Boom, head shot. They might see Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot coming, but they'll need to scramble for hexproof or shroud before your Cone of Flame lands a triple kill, draws you three and completely flips the state of the board.

#15. Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog is one of those MTG cards that is wildly specific. This card could be a bomb card if you have exactly what you need in your hand when you play it. It has a wheel effect just for you and can return creatures or artifacts you just discarded for the MVs of 1, 2, and 3. There’s value here if you can build a proper deck around it, but it’s too specific for me.

#14. Giott, King of the Dwarves

Build equipment and dwarves into your deck and it's no surprise Giott, King of the Dwarves gets you lots of opportunities to rummage.

#13. Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden

Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden is a solid card in certain equipment builds, but you most likely won’t be drawing cards right away. You must first develop your equipment and creature presence and hope for less removal from your opponent. It’s playable in slower-playing decks, but a little too clunky in my opinion.

#12. Heartwarming Redemption

Heartwarming Redemption is a solid wheel draw kind of card for Boros. It has many factors working for it. You get 1+ the number of cards you discard, you get lifegain, and it’s an instant. The value is there, and it can fit into many different Boros builds.

#11. Banon, the Returners' Leader

Banon, the Returners' Leader has a nice and easy rummage trigger. Then for the postcombat main phase that creature you discarded remains castable for the turn, convenient right?

#10. Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy

The Fallout knight, Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy learned from Preeminent Captain and tacks on a full card drawn before cheating another attacker into play. Turns out a couple more captains soldier up alongside Elizabeth really well, Captain of the Watch and Squad Captain.

#9. Merry, Esquire of Rohan

As a LotR fan, I was over the moon with the quality and entertainment I got from the Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set. Merry isn’t my favorite hobbit, but Merry, Esquire of Rohan is a versatile aggressive creature to add to many non-Standard Boros decks. It gives a great draw trigger if you have other legendary creatures, and first strike is a wonderful keyword for aggression. This card is worth consideration for legendary aggressive Boros decks.

#8. Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian has an inventive way to draw a first card on opponents turns, and thus meet the conditions for miracle, and way more rummaging than a typical once-per turn activation might allow. The sky's the limit for this elder dragon from Secrets of Strixhaven when it can cut spell costs to .

#7. Lorehold Command

Any instant with a ton of different kinds of interactions is going to be useful. Lorehold Command is that kind of card for the Boros player. It has draw, protection, creature token creation, and direct damage. The only thing not to love about this card is maybe the MV, but you can build around that.

#6. Nahiri, the Harbinger

Nahiri, the Harbinger is a solid Boros planeswalker for several reasons. The 4 MV is a wonderful fit into most Boros mana curves, The +2 draw loyalty ability is a great bonus for Boros decks, and the final loyalty ability can end games. These factors are what we’re looking for in planeswalkers, especially non-super-friends decks that just want great support from their planeswalkers.

#5. Wyleth, Soul of Steel

Popular archetypes of Boros are equipment and aura decks. Wyleth, Soul of Steel helps to make your equipment/aura deck more efficient with its mana. You may have to pay to enchant or equip, but with this card, you don’t have to worry about using mana to draw cards. This efficiency and drawing many cards gives Wyleth, Soul of Steel huge value in these archetypes.

#4. Thrilling Discovery

Discarding low value or ineffective cards to draw new cards is a way to play your curve well in Boros. Thrilling Discovery can help you ditch some low-value cards to draw three cards and gain life. There are many strategies in Boros that can come from this card. I’m a fan of reanimation with cards like Velomachus Lorehold and Invoke Justice.

#3. Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser has card advantage in the +1 and the rest of the abilities lean into go-wide spirits for some tried and true power.

#2. Aurelia, the Law Above

Aurelia, the Law Above ignores whatever laws Magic R&D used to have about Boros card draw and establishes a new one that is so much easier. If you're Boros and you goad three of an opponent's creatures, reward yourself with a card, then it comes back to your turn and you send in the battallion, and you draw more. Boros Recruit served a long 20 years in the force for card draw this good.

#1. Akiri, Fearless Voyager

Akiri, Fearless voyager is a must-roster card for Boros equipment decks. It gives you a card draw for any equipped creature attacking, so you don’t always have to risk this card to draw. It also provides wonderful protection against removal for your equipped creatures. If there’s anything that can ruin an equipment deck, it’s removal. Note, this activated ability doesn’t protect against exiling or -x/-x effects.

Best Boros Card Draw Payoffs

The Wheel of Potential does require some stored up energy but gives you a second chance at the cards you would've just lost on any other wheel, use a full hand for the full effect. Pyretic Charge turns your hand size into the power for your alpha strike.

Spiraling Embers doesn't discard your cards and is a more scalable and flexible Lava Axe. Kiyomaro, First to Stand really needs a full hand for you to enjoy playing it. Union of the Third Path might be the lowest level of payoff, but I see this for Mardu builds that sneak in a Sanguine Bond kill. As for E. Honda, Sumo Champion or its Universes Within version Baldin, Century Herdmaster, this is toughness matters on another level!

Exiling and impulsive drawing are great strategies for Boros and Laelia, the Blade Reforged gets a nice pump every time you use the card from Showdown of the Skalds or Feldon, Ronom Excavator.

Wrap Up

Lorehold Command | Illustration by Jason Rainville

We charged in and now we sit on a field of victory! Boros is a popular guild and that shouldn’t change anytime soon. If you want to stabilize your decks and get more victories, feed your deck some red card draw and white card draw and crush your opponents.

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