Total War(rior)

Commander / EDH Group Slug Midrange Pillow Fort Tokens

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Lands (37)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Tokens (5)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Oketra's Monument
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Sylvan Offering

Warriors (21)

• 1x Aven Wind Guide
• 1x Bramblewood Paragon
• 1x Brutal Hordechief
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Grand Warlord Radha
• 1x Mardu Woe-Reaper
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Nacatl War-Pride
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Radha, Heir to Keld
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Rushblade Commander
• 1x Soulblade Corrupter
• 1x Thrasher Brute
• 1x Viridian Zealot

Sunforger package (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Mercy Killing
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Riot Control
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x Temur Charm

Attack someone else (6)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Curse of Predation
• 1x Curse of Stalked Prey
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Thunderstaff

Commander (1)

Misc (10)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gemstone Array
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Peer Pressure
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sunforger

Ramp (9)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Wild Growth

Advantage/Tutor (3)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Rhystic Study

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Sideboard

Other (2)

• 1x Boldwyr Intimidator
• 1x Primal Vigor

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Maybeboard

Warriors (33)

• 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1x Archetype of Aggression
• 1x Blaring Recruiter
• 1x Blood-Chin Rager
• 1x Carnage Gladiator
• 1x Champion of Rhonas
• 1x Dragonscale General
• 1x Drumhunter
• 1x Ezuri, Claw of Progress
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Glistener Elf
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Hazezon Tamar
• 1x Herald of Dromoka
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Imperious Perfect
• 1x Jazal Goldmane
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Lovisa Coldeyes
• 1x Mardu Strike Leader
• 1x Nath of the Gilt-Leaf
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Nimbus Champion
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Samut, Voice of Dissent
• 1x Sosuke, Son of Seshiro
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Unstoppable Ash
• 1x Varchild's War-Riders
• 1x Vhati il-Dal
• 1x Yasova Dragonclaw

Aikido-ish (10)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Batwing Brume
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Standardize
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Advantage/Tutor (4)

• 1x Huatli, Radiant Champion
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Raiders' Spoils
• 1x Skullclamp

Misc (26)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Descendants' Path
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Five-Alarm Fire
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Harsh Mercy
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Path of Bravery
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Shared Animosity
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1x Vandalblast

Sunforger package (13)

• 1x Absorb
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Dromar's Charm
• 1x Gruul Charm
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Mana Tithe
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Sundering Growth
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End

Lands (7)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Crystal Quarry
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Island
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Ramp (19)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thought Vessel

Attack someone else (14)

• 1x Archangel of Tithes
• 1x Baird, Steward of Argive
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Guardian Seraph
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Palliation Accord
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Reverence
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Wound Reflection

Group slug (10)

• 1x Angel's Trumpet
• 1x Battle Strain
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Goblin Diplomats
• 1x Goblin Spymaster
• 1x Heat of Battle
• 1x War Cadence
• 1x Warmonger Hellkite
• 1x War's Toll

Tokens (4)

• 1x Crafty Cutpurse
• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth
• 1x Regna, the Redeemer
• 1x Secure the Wastes

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Mandatory Najeela, the Blade-Blossom group slug/Warrior tribal deck.

Since Najeela doesn't care who controls attacking Warriors, you can make a blanket deal with people that you'll give them tokens as long as they're not attacking you with the Warriors and that they won't immediately have the tokens come into play attacking you. (Of course, you should probably take exception to e.g. the Meren of Clan Nel Toth player.) Pillow fort/rattlesnake cards like Propaganda disincentivizes people from attacking you with the gifted tokens while group slug stuff like Curse of Opulence further tempts people into attacking each other. (Marchesa's Decree is a bit of both; it discourages people from stabbing you in the back with their gifted tokens, but once they do take the Monarch from you they'll paint a target on themselves that will be passed along from player to player, further encouraging conflict.)

Sylvan Offering & Mercy Killing can give your opponents a starting pack of Warriors to beat each other with. Maybeboard options in this category includes Standardize (potentially double an opponent's creature presence), Bazaar Trader (donate a spare token each turn, but make sure the opponent you gifted it to marks it as distinct from their own tokens in case Homeward Path is activated (bonus points if you instead give a rival tribe player Arcane Adaptation)) and Assault Suit + a good Warrior (probably not Najeela since she's a bit too valuable). Note that Warriors are pretty common outside of {U} & {C} so you might not always need to give your opponents anything.

E.g. Anointed Procession helps you ensure you come up ahead on the swarm front, which is particularly important if you want to put on Peer Pressure in order to harvest all those tokens your opponents have been so kind as to grow for you. If you want to make things spicier, add Primal Vigor and/or Standardize to the mix but watch out for rival swarm producers. (Another thing to note that Curse of Opulence Gold is also doubled by the relevant enchantments, including Primal Vigor for your opponents.)

E.g. Druids' Repository obviously lets you attack again and again with Najeela.

Teferi's Protection is currently excluded because it prevents Najeela from making tokens for people while she's phased. Instead Counterflux & Temur Charm are used to protect against e.g. Cyclonic Rift.

Training Grounds, Brutal Hordechief and to a lesser extent Champion of Stray Souls are all pet cards of mine which are probably sub-optimal here, although they kinda help justify each other. Similar things could probably be said about Mana Echoes & Gemstone Array.

This deck could end up going the aikido route, but I'm unsure since Najeela's activated ability is pretty flashy and combined with the threat of her swarm growing out of control could paint a huge target on you. Regardless, e.g. Rakdos Charm will probably end up in the final version since it gives you an answer for e.g. Insurrection.

A bit unsure about Nacatl War-Pride since its forced blocking is nullified by menace. One neat thing to note is that the tokens don't have to attack the same opponent as the original creature.

Lovisa Coldeyes is risky but potentially powerful as her anthem effect is symmetric; just make sure you're not the one being overrun by twenty 3/3s. (If you want to be really spicy, there's also Coat of Arms, which becomes even more absurd in combination with Standardize.)

Sources of inspiration include Gahiji: Forever War and Queen Marchesa: Politics, Aikido, and Control.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 1 Rares 24 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.98
Tokens	Aven Wind Guide 2/3 W, Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Gold, Morph 2/2 C, The Monarch, Treefolk X/X G, Warrior 1/1 W, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance
Folders	_Retired Stuff_