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Warhammer: Grand Cathay

Commander / EDH Bracket 2 Counters Humans Tokens WUB (Esper)

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Land (40)

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Enchantment (3)

Commander (1)

Commander: Chromium, the Mutable

Artifact (10)

Sorcery (7)

Maybeboard

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Land (2)

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⛩️What is it? and what is Grand Cathay?⛩️

This Deck is supposed to represent the Grand Cathay faction from Warhammer: The Old World. (you can also find the faction in the game Total War: Warhammer 3)

Grand Cathay in Warhammer: The Old World is primarily based on imperial Chinese history, mythology, and culture (heavily drawing from the Ming, Tang, and Qing dynasties). It incorporates fantasy elements like dragon rulers, Daoist-inspired magic ☯, and the Great Bastion, which mirrors the Great Wall of China. I try to capture this with the cards I use to build this deck.

The Commander Chromium, the Mutable represents Miao Ying, the Stormdragon, a leader of the northern parts of Grand Cathay that can, (like all the dragons in that faction) shape shift into human form.

The deck focuses on human tribal, also very fitting in the lore of the faction :D

Cathay Assault

Building this Deck, I set the following restrictions for myself:

  • only use creatures that have a "Human" or "Dragon" creaturetyp (with a few exceptions, like The Walls of Ba Sing Se for the great bastion.)

  • atleast 90% of the cards in the deck have to fit the theme (there are specific Magic sets that really help with that: Portal Three Kingdoms for example has beautiful chinese inspired artwork. Khans of Tarkir offers many asien inspired cards aswell, with a focus on stepp nomads, and lastly Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, which brings really good flavor for human-monster cooperation, which fits well with the human-dragon relationship found in Cathay!)

  1. cast human spells and roleplay as the grand cathay
  2. collect many creatures and buff them
  3. maybe yell "Inventions of Nan-Gau" every time I cast an artifact spell
  4. enjoy playing a chill game with friends

Winconditions:

  1. Chromium, the Mutable and Rogue's Passage
  2. -work in progress-

Main Synergies:

-work in progress-

Afterword

The Maybeboard is for changes I'm planing, or you could take into consideration if you're building yourself a Grand Cathay Deck. Im stil working on this deck, now I have to get a few games in, to get a feeling for it!

Feel free to leave any suggestions in the comments!

Next Update will probably work more on the mana base, but I have to play, to see how much I need to change it.

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Version 1.1 — Feb. 12, 2026
Edit

Took out: Thousand Moons Crackshot(ability was too expensive, even thou it fits good thematicly), Ancient Stone Idol(didnt quit fit as Terracotta Sentinel, because it produces 2 when it dies), Konda's Banner(the math geht tricky with this, so I rather leave it out for more humans), Kitesail Freebooter(too gimicky, have better humans), Mardu Shadowspear(dead card after turn 2) and 1xSwamp

Put in: Abzan Falconer(another way to avoid other token decks), Timely Hordemate(recursion), Rush of Battle(buffs and can give lifelink, good for all out swings), Envoy of the Ancestors, (lifelink to make it more feasable to attack), Abzan Battle Priest("") and 1xPlains

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Revision 10 See all

(7 months ago)

-1 Ancient Stone Idol main
-1 Elaborate Firecannon maybe
+1 Feat of Resistance maybe
-1 Kitesail Freebooter main
-1 Konda's Banner main
-1 Mardu Shadowspear main
+1 Plains main
+1 Rush of Battle main
-1 Swamp main
-1 Thousand Moons Crackshot main
+1 Timely Hordemate main