Edric 50

Format: Commander

Commander: Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a high-tempo Simic swarm strategy built around Edric, Spymaster of Trest. The primary game plan is to flood the board on early turns with efficient, evasive 1-drop creatures such as Slither Blade, Mausoleum Wanderer, and Faerie Seer. Once Edric enters the battlefield on Turn 3, every unblocked attacker draws a card, quickly refilling the hand and generating overwhelming card velocity. The deck uses this massive surplus of cards to hold up low-cost countermagic like Concerted Defense, Unified Will, and Dispel, protecting its board from sweepers and disruption. To close out games, the deck pivots into game-ending extra turn spells such as Notorious Throng, Walk the Aeons, and Part the Waterveil, or buffs its wide board of flyers with Beastmaster Ascension and Biomass Mutation. With a blistering mana curve and dense counter protection, the deck reliably establishes dominance on Turn 4 and closes on Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Retrieval
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Biomass Mutation
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Colossal Skyturtle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Concerted Defense
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Druids' Repository
  • 1 Eaten by Piranhas
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Feywild Visitor
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foil
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Harvest Season
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hope of Ghirapur
  • 1 Hypnotic Siren
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Karn's Temporal Sundering
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Long-Term Plans
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Merfolk Windrobber
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Network Disruptor
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 One with Nature
  • 1 Part the Waterveil
  • 1 Pixie Illusionist
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rites of Refusal
  • 1 Scryb Sprites
  • 1 Seal of Removal
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Snaremaster Sprite
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spire Tracer
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Timestream Navigator
  • 1 Treetop Scout
  • 1 Unified Will
  • 1 Utter Insignificance
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Walk the Aeons
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wingcrafter
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast