The Walking Dead by The_Buckmaster

Format: Commander

Commander: Malik, Grim Manipulator

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Mardu Aristocrats and Edict Control deck uses Malik, Grim Manipulator to convert opposing creature removal into mana acceleration and life drain. The primary game plan develops through efficient two-mana mana rocks into midgame aristocrat anchors like Mayhem Devil, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats. Deploying Malik forces targeted sacrifices while generating Treasure tokens whenever opposing creatures die. Symmetrical board wipes such as Blood Money and Promise of Loyalty clear opposing boards while restocking your resource pool with artifact tokens. The deck closes the game by weaponizing token generation and sacrifices through Marionette Master and Mirkwood Bats, burning opponents out across two turn rotations. The list features strong permanent removal and graveyard hate, supplemented by defensive tools like Inkshield and Boros Charm. While it lacks an infinite combo or stack-based countermagic, its high density of interchangeable drain engines and sacrifice outlets ensures steady, compounding attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arrest
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boiling Rock Prison
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Boros Guildgate
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cloak and Dagger, Entwined
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Creative Technique
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Embalmed Ascendant
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Far Traveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fields of Strife
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gisa's Favorite Shovel
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Glittering Stockpile
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Great Fierce Bee
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lavaleaper
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Malik, Grim Manipulator
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nevermore
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Release to Memory
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Skull Rend
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Supper for Spiders
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tomik, Wielder of Law
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Zombify
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat