Mardu Horde by VanpaiaHantaa

Format: Commander

Commander: Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death leads a fast Mardu reanimator-combo deck. The primary plan is to accelerate into a graveyard-based infinite loop: Buried Alive or Entomb puts Karmic Guide and Kiki-Jiki into the graveyard, then Reanimate or Animate Dead returns Karmic Guide, which brings back Kiki. A sacrifice outlet such as Viscera Seer plus a drain effect like Blood Artist converts that loop into a win. Alesha acts as a repeatable, cheap recursion engine to reanimate power-2 pieces and apply pressure. Secondary lines include Dualcaster Mage with Twinflame or Molten Duplication for infinite hasty tokens, and Underworld Breach/LED/Wheel loops. There is no hidden commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat