Mathas the Pot-Stirrer

Commander / EDH* Budget Casual RBW (Mardu)

Colder

Land (37)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opal Palace
• 7x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (12)

• 1x Benevolent Offering
• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Gang Up
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Master Warcraft
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Exhaustion
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Greed
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Necrotic Plague
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Vow of Lightning
• 1x War's Toll

Artifact (13)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Victory Chimes

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Fumiko the Lowblood
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Goblin Spymaster
• 1x High Priest of Penance
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Orzhov Advokist
• 1x Restoration Specialist
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Starke of Rath
• 1x Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Zurgo Helmsmasher

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Virtus's Maneuver

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This is a casual politics deck, combining a few group hug and pillowfort elements with curses to encourage other players to beat the crap out of each other and not me.

Ideally, the plan is to start by making small encouragements for the other players to focus on each other instead of me by using Mathas, Fiend Seeker in conjunction with roaming removal cards such as Starke of Rath and Necrotic Plague and some of the cheaper "target maker" cards like Curse of Opulence and Crown of Doom .

As the game progresses to mid-game, I will start putting a little more pressure on by forcing players to attack, and hopefully directing them away from me with armies made with my token creators like Ajani's Chosen .

At late game, hopefully I'll have enough resources to just brute force down whoever is left standing. Win cons are the weakest part of this deck I think.

I'm looking for cards under $5 that would support the theme of encouraging other players to attack and otherwise play against each other. Should I add more cards like Hunted Dragon , Hunted Troll that give other players fodder? Should I add more good stuff? Do I need more creatures? Also, I think that Patron of the Kitsune might have a place in this deck, but I don't have much of a way to weaponize lifegain as that's not the focus of the deck.

Thanks!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Goblin 1/1 R for Goblin Spymaster, Gold, Elemental 5/1 R, Ogre 3/3 R, Plant 0/2 G, Rat 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Survivor 1/1 R, The Monarch, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B