Alesha, tokens by tmixalis94

Format: Commander

Commander: Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Mardu aristocrats token-and-drain deck helmed by **Alesha, Who Smiles at Death**. The primary game plan is to generate a wide board of creature tokens using engines like **Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder**, **Siege-Gang Commander**, and **Beetleback Chief**, then sacrifice them to outlets such as **Viscera Seer** and **Goblin Bombardment** while drain pieces like **Blood Artist** and **Zulaport Cutthroat** bleed the table. Alesha provides a recurring value engine by reanimating small utility creatures from the graveyard each combat. The deck wins through incremental life loss, with backup plans involving combat damage via **Mirror Entity** and **Anger** granting haste. It is a bracket-appropriate strategy that rewards sequencing, but lacks the explosive speed or robust protection of higher-tier builds.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beetleback Chief
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Evangel of Heliod
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Militia Bugler
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Ponyback Brigade
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Remorseful Cleric
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sazacap's Brew
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skeletal Scrying
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat