Nothing Personal, Just Business by aldy1525

Format: Commander

Commander: Edea, Possessed Sorceress

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Grixis deck is commanded by Edea, Possessed Sorceress, functioning as a threat theft and aristocrats control engine. The strategy focuses on seizing control of opposing creatures at the beginning of combat, attacking with them using temporary haste, and sacrificing them to free outlets before end of turn. Sacrificing a stolen creature triggers Edea to draw a card and return the creature to its owner's board, turning opposing threats into a continuous flow of card advantage, mana generation, and life drain. The deck supports this loop with permanent theft enablers, extra combat phases, and aristocrat drain payoffs like Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER and Goblin Bombardment. To finish games, the deck relies on explosive mass theft spells such as Mob Rule and Insurrection, as well as combat chaining engines like Breath of Fury and Karlach, Fury of Avernus, turning the table's collective creature power against them in decisive alpha strikes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breath of Fury
  • 1 Chamber of Manipulation
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Domineering Will
  • 1 Dominus of Fealty
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Edea, Possessed Sorceress
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Helm of Possession
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Identity Echo
  • 1 Impostor Syndrome
  • 1 Industrial Advancement
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kethek, Crucible Goliath
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Miren, the Moaning Well
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Beast, Deathless Prince
  • 1 The Golden Throne
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter
  • 1 Éomer, Marshal of Rohan