Edgar Markov Wide Swing + Fun Additions by user9374229

Format: Commander

Commander: Edgar Markov

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Edgar Markov is the classic Mardu go-wide commander: his Eminence ability turns every Vampire spell into two bodies - the creature plus a 1/1 token - so even modest tribal churn snowballs into an overwhelming board. The deck pairs that swarm with a black life-drain package: Sanctum Seeker and Cruel Celebrant convert attacks and deaths into table-wide life loss, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Marauding Blight-Priest weaponize lifegain, and Bloodletter of Aclazotz doubles all of it on your turn. Finishers are anthems like Coat of Arms, Shared Animosity, and Banner of Kinship that turn a dozen attackers lethal in one alpha strike. Edgar's battlefield side is a bonus engine - a first-strike haste attacker that pumps the whole team when he swings - while the real engine operates from the command zone. Secondary lines include Captivating Vampire theft, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord cheating a large Vampire into play, and a repeatable Demonic Tutor via Emeritus of Woe.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Cast-Off Consort
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cemetery Gatekeeper
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Edgar Markov
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Everything Comes to Dust
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forerunner of the Legion
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Ivora, Insatiable Heir
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malakir Bloodwitch
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Markov Baron
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shadow Alley Denizen
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vampire Nocturnus
  • 1 Vampire Socialite
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire