Edgar Vampires by user2983042

Format: Commander

Commander: Edgar Markov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Edgar Markov deck is an optimized Mardu tribal aggro-aristocrats strategy designed to overwhelm opponents with rapid go-wide board states and punishing life-drain triggers. Edgar Markov's Eminence ability provides constant, uncounterable card and board advantage from the command zone, generating a 1/1 Vampire token with every Vampire cast. The deck leverages this free token stream using elite card draw engines like Skullclamp, The One Ring, and Black Market Connections to maintain high velocity. It transitions into a lethal threat on Turn 4 through massive damage amplifiers such as Coat of Arms, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, and Akroma's Will. Board wipes are neutralized either by instant phase-out protection like Teferi's Protection and Clever Concealment, or converted into game-ending life loss via aristocrat staples like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Vein Ripper.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champion of Dusk
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Edgar Markov
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Bloodwitch
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Stromkirk Captain
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire