Edgar Markov by leotel

Format: Commander

Commander: Edgar Markov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Vampire Aggro-Aristocrats strategy commanded by Edgar Markov. The game plan revolves around Edgar's Eminence ability, which creates a 1/1 black Vampire creature token whenever you cast another Vampire spell, even while Edgar rests in the command zone. By deploying an efficient curve of 1-to-3 mana Vampires, the deck rapidly builds a wide battlefield of attackers and sacrifice fodder without spending extra mana. Once assembled, the deck leverages two overlapping win conditions: overwhelming combat damage powered by tribal lords like Stromkirk Captain, Captivating Vampire, and Vampire Nocturnus, and direct life-drain attrition through aristocrat pieces such as Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Sanctum Seeker. Supported by flexible removal options like Anguished Unmaking and potent draw engines such as Skullclamp and Plumb the Forbidden, the deck applies relentless pressure while recovering smoothly from conventional board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthrone Vampire
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 By Invitation Only
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Cliffhaven Vampire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Death Denied
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Edgar Markov
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Falkenrath Aristocrat
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
  • 1 Leave // Chance
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Bloodwitch
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 New Blood
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Order of Sacred Dusk
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Stromkirk Captain
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vampire Nocturnus
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verrak, Warped Sengir
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wispdrinker Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan