Caesar rules the multiverse by FlogginJolly

Format: Commander

Commander: Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Mardu deck is helmed by Caesar, Legion's Emperor and focuses on an aggressive token aristocrats and combat burn strategy. The deck seeks to deploy low-cost creature engines during the early turns, cast Caesar on Turn 4, and use his attack triggers to flood the board with hasty 1/1 Soldier tokens while drawing cards or draining opponents. On Turn 5, it accelerates damage using potent group-slug and anthem payoffs like Purphoros, God of the Forge, Warleader's Call, Arabella, Abandoned Doll, and Cathars' Crusade. While the deck features an alternate two-card infinite combo in Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond, its primary route to victory is overwhelming combat swings backed by direct aristocrat death triggers. A dense suite of low-cost instant protection spells shields the army from conventional destroy-based board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adept Watershaper
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
  • 1 Arabella, Abandoned Doll
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breath of Fury
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entrapment Maneuver
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 General's Enforcer
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Horn of Gondor
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Raid Bombardment
  • 1 Reroute Systems
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender