Here Comes The Salt by Psyga315

Format: Commander

Creator: Psyga315

Commander: Edgar Markov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck subverts expectations by utilizing Edgar Markov strictly for Mardu color identity while running zero Vampires in the 99, effectively disabling Eminence. Instead, the deck is constructed as an uncompromising mass land destruction and hard stax control list. Its core game plan accelerates via low-cost artifact mana into devastating land-clearing sorceries such as Armageddon, Ravages of War, and Jokulhaups, alongside resource-strangling permanents like Nether Void, Winter Orb, and Smokestack. Parity is broken through surviving mana rocks and asymmetrical value pieces like Tergrid, God of Fright and The One Ring. While the deck excels at establishing an oppressive lock by Turn 4, its win conditions are exceptionally slow and grindy, relying on solitary commander combat damage or gradual drain effects over four or more response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Apocalypse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Decree of Annihilation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devastation
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Edgar Markov
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Epicenter
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Global Ruin
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hokori, Dust Drinker
  • 1 Humility
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jokulhaups
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mindslaver
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Void
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ravages of War
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smokestack
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Static Orb
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Break
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Wake of Destruction
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Worldfire