ALESHA by user9660790

Format: Commander

Commander: Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An aggressive Mardu aristocrats deck built around reanimating small creatures with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. It fills the graveyard with looting and surveil, then attacks with Alesha to return creatures with power 2 or less tapped and attacking. The hidden commander, Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate, sits in the 99 as a backup recursion engine and grows with +1/+1 counters. Drain dealers such as Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Elas il-Kor convert every death into life loss. The primary finish is a Karmic Guide/Reveillark sacrifice loop started by an Alesha attack; combat beats, Impact Tremors, Goblin Bombardment, Gray Merchant, and Arabella form the secondary path.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ankle Shanker
  • 1 Arabella, Abandoned Doll
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assemble the Players
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Thrilling Discovery
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat