For the Imperium! | Marneus by leftlegcemetery

Format: Commander

Commander: Marneus Calgar

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper token-aggro deck is built around Marneus Calgar's ability to turn every creature token into a card. The main path is to resolve an attack-trigger engine-Endless Foot Assault, Rabble Rousing, Adeline, or Inquisitorial Rosette-then attack to create a swarm of tokens while Marneus draws into more engines and anthems. Finishing is usually a single overrun turn: Moonshaker Cavalry, Caretaker's Talent at level 3, or a converted Grand Crescendo. A secondary drain/mana package with Elas il-Kor, Mirkwood Bats, and Pitiless Plunderer wins games where combat is blocked. Legion's Landing and Dollmaker's Shop are support pieces; there is no hidden commander. The commander is the gas, but the plan still functions if he is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Birth of the Imperium
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Collective Effort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Company Commander
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Divert Disaster
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Emergency Weld
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Inquisitor Greyfax
  • 1 Inquisitorial Rosette
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marneus Calgar
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moonlit Meditation
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mystic Reflection
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Protect the Negotiators
  • 1 Pyrrhic Strike
  • 1 Rabble Rousing
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Royal Talon Fighter Jet
  • 1 Scrounge for Eternity
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Space Marine Devastator
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Ultramarines Honour Guard
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanguard Suppressor
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 We Ride at Dawn