Alesha Upgraded by BebekenBwahp

Format: Commander

Commander: Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos aristocrats and combat-reanimation strategy commanded by Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost utility creatures, sacrificing or discarding them for value, and using Alesha's attack triggers to grow her power while reanimating creatures from the graveyard during the end-step Raid trigger. Early turns focus on establishing graveyard fodder such as Archfiend's Vessel and Accursed Marauder alongside mana fixing and sac outlets like Deadly Dispute and Vampiric Rites. In the mid-game, equipment and auras such as Cultist of the Absolute and Tarrian's Soulcleaver accelerate Alesha's power growth, enabling her to recur game-ending pieces like Massacre Wurm and Syr Konrad, the Grim. The deck wins through a combination of sustained combat damage, recurring creature removal, and draining opponents via Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat. While resilient against single-target creature removal due to built-in reanimation, the deck remains vulnerable to graveyard hate and mass exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent of the Shadow Thieves
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Arbiter of Woe
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend's Vessel
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Bone Splinters
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainsaw
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragon Mantle
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Instigator
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Cullblade
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Witch's Mark
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat