Alexa by user2668765

Format: Commander

Commander: Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Reanimator Aristocrats build helmed by Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate. The primary strategy leverages Alesha's scaling power from combat attacks to repeatedly reanimate utility creatures, edicts, and high-impact threats from the graveyard during the end step. Early turns focus on filling the graveyard and setting up sacrifice enablers such as Snarling Gorehound, Accursed Marauder, and Ripples of Undeath. Once Alesha attacks, she begins recurring creatures that force opponents to sacrifice threats and discard cards, establishing strong creature control. In the mid-to-late game, the deck pivots into decisive drain and combat damage using bombs like Syr Konrad, the Grim, Massacre Wurm, Etali, Primal Storm, and Zulaport Cutthroat. While the deck generates high synergy and board control, its reliance on the combat step and graveyard access leaves it vulnerable to rest-in-peace effects, mass exile sweepers, and early targeted removal on Alesha before her first attack.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argentum Masticore
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demon of Loathing
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Hammerhead, Maggia Boss
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kathari Bomber
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Maximum Overdrive
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Scathing Shadelock // Venomous Words
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shriek, Treblemaker
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Transmogrant's Crown
  • 1 Undead Sprinter
  • 1 Undertaker
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Witch's Mark
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Zombify
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat