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- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Reconnaissance
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Maze of Ith
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Breath of Fury
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Breath of Fury + Rogue's Passage + Sword of Feast and Famine
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Breath of Fury + Sword of Feast and Famine + Whispersilk Cloak
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Key to the City
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Selfless Spirit
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Karmic Guide
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Master of Cruelties
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Blinding Angel
Legality
| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
First strike
Whenever Alesha, Who Smiles at Death attacks, you may pay . If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
NV_1980 on
2 weeks ago
Indeed, cheating out stuff is fun!
I'd really recommend Ashnod's Altar (or maybe even The Golden Throne) in here. You attack with Terra, you sacrifice a creature to Altar(or Throne), you use the mana generated for Terra's ability and get back a creature from your graveyard you'd rather use any way, instead of the sacrificed creature. Win-win. You can also use other sac-outlets (like Goblin Bombardment) and creatures that generate mana upon death (like Cathodion) to do something similar.
Some more recursion redundancy wouldn't hurt either. Alesha, Who Smiles at Death and Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate seem pretty logical choices. So does Sun Titan by the way. Smile at Death also brings plenty of the creatures in this deck back to the battlefield.
Good luck with the deck!
SaberTech on I’d like help building a …
1 month ago
If you are looking to slow down opponents with a bunch of discard/hate bear/taxing effects then a commander you could consider is Alesha, Who Smiles at Death.
There are a lot of 1/1 creatures that make all of your opponents discard a card, and a lot of the hate-bear cards are in the 2 or less power range. Alesha giving you a way to keep bringing them back after they die or you sac them could be a useful effect in the command zone. Cards like Dauntless Dismantler, Inspired Insurgent, or Hammer Mage might help with destroying artifacts. Lurrus of the Dream-Den and Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle in the 99 could work as backup for your commander. Requiem Monolith gives you a card draw engine that can also kill your weaker ETB creatures so that Alesha can bring them back.
Goblin Sharpshooter + a way to give it deathtouch like Basilisk Collar, Onyx Mage, or Vault of the Archangel lets you repeatedly clear creatures from your opponents' boards.
Alesha's signature trick is to attack an opponents who has lost their creatures and bring back Master of Cruelties onto the board tapped and attacking (getting around the restriction of it attacking alone). The opponent won't be able to block the MoC, so their life total becomes 1, and then Alesha finishes them off. Cards like Break Through the Line can help creatures like MoC push some damage through.
There are a variety of combos that you could run as a finisher. If you don't care for combos, then cards like Cathars' Crusade and Serra Redeemer can help to make your creatures more dangerous threats. If you end up running a lot of discard and forced sac effects like Accursed Marauder then you could potentially run Tergrid, God of Fright Flip as one of your game changers to steal your opponents' stuff and win with that.
CommanderNeyo on
The Ultimate Warriors (Updated)
4 months ago
I love Mardu! My favorite deck plays a lot like this one.
Below are some of my recommendations, but I would mostly recommend you check out the CommandZone on Youtube - they have a deckbuilding guide that is very good. Also, for some ideas on cards, you can check out EDHREC, which is a database for deckbuilding.
Anywho, here are some of my recommendations:
== ADD ==
Isshin, Two Heavens as One and Windcrag Siege double all your attack triggers.
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death and Terra, Herald of Hope
if you face a lot of removal.
Swords to Plowshares, Damn, Blasphemous Act, and Ruinous Ultimatum for removal.
Boros Charm for protection.
Voice of Victory, Bone-Cairn Butcher, Infantry Shield, and Dalkovan Packbeasts for more Warrior tokens.
Hardened Tactician, Raiders' Spoils, Mindblade Render, Skullclamp, and Zurgo Stormrender for card draw.
Professional Face-Breaker for ramp and card advantage. Boros Signet, Orzhov Signet, Rakdos Signet, Talisman of Conviction, Talisman of Hierarchy, and Talisman of Indulgence for more ramp.
Shared Animosity, Fiery Emancipation, and City on Fire for buffs.
Reconnaissance to remove any creature your opponent blocks so it won't die, and Redoubled Stormsinger to double your tokens.
33 Lands is very low, especially since you have so little card draw and a high average cmc of 2.67. I recommend at least 38, if not 40 - you generally want to be playing a land every turn for the first 5 turns.
== CUT ==
Here are some cards I recommend cutting:
Aeronaut's Wings, Colossus Hammer, Greatsword of Tyr, Inquisitorial Rosette, Mardu Monument, Team Pennant, Amazing Alliance, Cartouche of Solidarity, Rally the Ranks, Shared Triumph, War Effort - Most of these provide modest buffs or require too much mana to use in one go. Most equipment are better in dedicated equipment builds, while Zurgo is generally more about going wide. If you do want to play equipment, I would recommend ones that provide utility (like Sword of the Animist, which you already have) or provide large buffs (like Blackblade Reforged). Cards that only buff your damage by 1 are generally underpowered.
Chromatic Lantern, Commander's Sphere - Your commander is 3-mana, so it is nice to have 2-mana ramp so you can still play your commander on curve.
Diabolic Tutor and Mastermind's Acquisition are a lot of mana for a tutor, and I would generally recommend cutting them.
Anywho, that's a lot, but let me know if any of it was helpful!
Crow_Umbra on
Salsa Roja [Primer]
5 months ago
Hi Venum, thank you for checking in, and sorry for the delayed response. I was in the middle of a round of disc golf when you first commented lol.
I haven't built this deck IRL, as it's more of a theory craft. Tbh, I hadn't really thought about this deck in months lol. I do like your suggestions, and think Sneak Attack could fit right in; I use it in my Goro-Goro and Satoru deck for similar reasons. Impact Tremors effects paired with ETB Token generation is definitely a solid way to build this deck, I think I omitted some of those token generators since a couple of my other decks are more Token/Impact Tremors/Group Slug focused and I wanted to do something a bit different here.
Trailblazer's Boots are pretty solid, I've used them in past builds and some of my friends have used them for some of their Voltron Equipment builds before. I used to use Whispersilk Cloak in an early version of my Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck a few years ago, but the 5 total mana to cast and equip felt kinda clunky for me. There were also some past corner cases where I wanted to be able to target my own creature for certain effects. Personally, I like Brotherhood Regalia a bit more for a cheaper over all mana investment to cast and equip to a legendary creature. Ward 2 isn't Shroud, but in a lot of cases 2 additional mana for spot removal is enough to deflect attention away, especially in my primary play group.
Crow_Umbra on Favorite plane and why?
11 months ago
Tarkir is definitely up there for my favorite planes. I think it's a toss up between Tarkir and Theros for me, mostly because those were the two newest planes when I first started playing around 2013.
I'll give the edge to Tarkir, mostly because at the time I was bummed out that I missed out on Kamigawa, and Shards of Alara seemed really cool as a three color set, so Tarkir was like a combination of aesthetics and concepts that I missed out on.
One of my key MtG related memories from that time was the day that Tarkir was spoiled by WotC. My best friend and I were still in college. We bought and devoured an entire Costco pizza between the two of us as we watched the Tarkir reveal. Mardu's key art from Mardu Ascendancy stood out to me most from the reveal, and I knew that was the faction that I wanted to play most.
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death was one of my favorite characters from Khan block, and would go on to be one of my first favorite commanders a few years later. Her story is one of my favorites from MtG, so I was glad when she returned in Foundations.
Overall, I'm pretty excited for Dragonstorm on the horizon.
Flarhoon13 on
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Oops, I Did it Again
1 year ago
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, Oops, I Did it Again won, Comboed off on my fifth attempt thru lots of disruption. Ian and Madison didn't team up, on their Ren and Stimpy, err, Rin and Seri, Inseparable and Oloro, Ageless Ascetic decks. Murderous Redcap entered at least 5 times and Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit about three before the combo finally stuck, with Karmic Guide out and then Renegade Reaper milled a Reveillark, starting a new combo that finally won the game.
Flarhoon13 on
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Oops, I Did it Again
1 year ago
May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death Oops, I Did it Again lost again, bringing my record to 14-15. Used search to find removal for Logan's Chatterfang, Squirrel General instead of finding pieces of my own combo win. Plus, Will's The Scarab God shut me down very hard--exiled a lot of cards. Win percentage .483
GhostB3N on
Silvar & Trynn - Human tribal
1 year ago
Easy swap for a more fitting 3 mana mana rock:
Commander's Sphere > Patchwork Banner
Better fitting creature
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death > Witch Enchanter Flip
5 mana aristocrat card for a impact tremmor like effect with +1/+1
Syr Konrad, the Grim > Warleader's Call
card draw replaced by more reliable carddraw:
Disciple of Bolas > Idol of Oblivion
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar > Caretaker's Talent
Garna, Bloodfist of Keld > Wedding Announcement Flip
Better token makers:
Oath of Eorl > Forth Eorlingas!
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