Mardu Beatdown by TheUrDragonMaster

Format: Commander

Commander: Neriv, Heart of the Storm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Mardu token swarm deck is helmed by Neriv, Heart of the Storm, who doubles all combat damage dealt by creatures that entered the battlefield this turn. The primary game plan is to generate a critical mass of token creatures-using cards like Hero of Bladehold, Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Thalisse, Reverent Medium, and Caesar, Legion s Emperor-then give them haste (via Ogre Battledriver, Dragonlord Kolaghan, Nahiri s Resolve) and attack immediately with Neriv on board. The damage output is amplified further by myriad effects from Blade of Selves and Goldlust Triad, and by sacrifice payoffs from Warren Soultrader and Grave Pact. The deck wins through overwhelming combat, with no infinite combos; it relies on synergy, recursion (Reanimate), and protection (Selfless Spirit, Grand Crescendo) to grind out victories.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Aether Vial
• 1 Ainok Strike Leader
• 1 All-Out Assault
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avenger of the Fallen
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blade of Selves
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
• 1 Call the Coppercoats
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Divine Visitation
• 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
• 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
• 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1 Goldlust Triad
• 1 Goldnight Commander
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Hero of Bladehold
• 1 Inspiring Vantage
• 1 Ironwill Forger
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
• 1 Legion Warboss
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Nahiri's Resolve
• 1 Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
• 1 Neriv, Heart of the Storm
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Ogre Battledriver
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pearl Medallion
• 4 Plains
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Shattered Landscape
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sneak Attack
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Song of Totentanz
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Tersa Lightshatter
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Thunder of Unity
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Twilight Drover
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Warleader's Call
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Will of the Mardu
• 1 Windcrag Siege
• 1 Within Range
• 1 Wound Reflection
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zurgo Stormrender