The Aristocats by user1948087

Format: Commander

Commander: Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Caesar, Legion's Emperor to lead an aggressive token-swarm and aristocrat strategy. The game plan focuses on deploying low-cost creatures and token producers in the early turns, casting Caesar on Turn 4, and attacking immediately to trigger his modal ability. By sacrificing expendable tokens, Caesar replaces lost resources with card draw while expanding the attacking army. The mid-game leverages static anthems and damage amplifiers such as Warleader's Call, Cathars' Crusade, and Mirkwood Bats to compound pressure across the entire table. Opponents face simultaneous threats from wide combat steps, Caesar's token-scaled direct damage, and aristocrat drain effects like Zulaport Cutthroat and Bastion of Remembrance. Even without Caesar, redundant token generators like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar and Thalisse, Reverent Medium maintain a threatening clock. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through relentless combat and unblockable life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assemble the Legion
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battle of Hoover Dam
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Colonel Autumn
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Craig Boone, Novac Guard
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diamond City
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 General's Enforcer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Kinbinding
  • 1 Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Memorial to Glory
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Overseer of Vault 76
  • 1 Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Planar Cleansing
  • 1 Raid Bombardment
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Securitron Squadron
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 1 Sunbaked Canyon
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Wasteland Raider
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender