Hail, Caesar! by mrrob143

Format: Commander

Commander: Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Mardu token aggro and aristocrats build commanded by Caesar, Legion's Emperor. The primary game plan curves low-cost token generators like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar and Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon into a Turn 4 Caesar. Attacking each turn triggers Caesar's ability to create more hasty tokens, draw cards, and deal direct damage. The deck accelerates table-wide life loss through enter-the-battlefield and death triggers from cards like Impact Tremors, Warleader's Call, and Mirkwood Bats. It reliably establishes a must-answer lethal state on Turn 5 and closes the game on Turn 6 by pairing wide combat swings with direct sacrifice burn via Goblin Bombardment and Commissar Severina Raine. While the list is vulnerable to exile-based board wipes and lacks heavy tutor suites, its deep redundancy across token engines and drain outlets ensures strong consistency and fast recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arabella, Abandoned Doll
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assemble the Legion
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Denethor, Ruling Steward
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dimension X
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Hanweir Garrison
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Ironwill Forger
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Rabble Rousing
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 SOLDIER Military Program
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slash, Reptile Rampager
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat