Blood Rites by GothyLocks

Format: Commander

Commander: Edgar Markov

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a classic Mardu Vampire tribal midrange deck helmed by Edgar Markov. The plan is straightforward go-wide aggression: cast cheap Vampires, leverage Edgar's Eminence to flood the board with 1/1 tokens from the command zone, then convert that mass into lethal combat and incidental drain. Anthems, +1/+1-counter engines, and aristocrat payoffs (Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Sanctum Seeker, Cordial Vampire) turn every trade and every attack step into table-wide pressure. There are no infinite combo lines; the deck wins through combat inevitability and life-drain attrition. Edgar himself is a haste beater whose attack trigger pumps the entire team, but the deck functions well even when he stays in the command zone because Eminence never turns off. Secondary axes include recursion (Bloodline Necromancer, Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, Timothar, Baron of Bats) and one-sided wipes (Olivia's Wrath, overloaded Damn).

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bloodline Necromancer
• 1 Bloodtracker
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Butcher of Malakir
• 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
• 1 Champion of Dusk
• 1 Charismatic Conqueror
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Cordial Vampire
• 1 Crossway Troublemakers
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Damn
• 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
• 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1 Edgar Markov
• 1 Elenda's Hierophant
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Etchings of the Chosen
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Falkenrath Noble
• 1 Glass-Cast Heart
• 1 Heirloom Blade
• 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kindred Boon
• 1 Legion Lieutenant
• 1 March of the Canonized
• 1 Martyr of Dusk
• 1 Master of Dark Rites
• 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 New Blood
• 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1 Oathsworn Vampire
• 1 Olivia's Wrath
• 1 Order of Sacred Dusk
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Pact of the Serpent
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Patron of the Vein
• 8 Plains
• 1 Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth
• 1 Radiant Destiny
• 1 Redemption Choir
• 1 Return to Dust
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sanctum Seeker
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 13 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Timothar, Baron of Bats
• 1 Twilight Prophet
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Utter End
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Voldaren Estate
• 1 Vona, Butcher of Magan
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan