Alesha's Warband

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Death and Taxes RBW (Mardu) Reanimator

SaltyWizard

Creature (38)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Avalanche Riders
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Palace Jailer
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Tidehollow Sculler
• 1x Tymna the Weaver *f-etch*
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vryn Wingmare
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 3x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 4x Snow-Covered Plains
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sulfurous Springs

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Reconnaissance

Instant (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wrath of God

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(S)Tax and Loop

Introduction

When playing {B}{R}{W} there are two major things you’re lacking the ramp of {G} and counter back-up of {U}. The stax pieces and hate cards in this deck aims to remedy this problem while pushing forward with a value oriented gameplan with a combo finish.

Hate and Taxes

Introducing the tax collectors

• Aven Mindcensor
• Eidolon of Rhetoric
• Kataki, War's Wage
• Magus of the Moon
• Price of Glory
• Avalanche Riders
• Leyline of the Void
• Remorseful Cleric
• Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• Vryn Wingmare
Honorable mention
• Palace Jailer There are some spellslinger decks and super friends decks in my group so Jailer’s Monarch trigger has worked great as a card engine

My list of hate and stax cards are built to combat my local meta, if you feel that some of these cards won’t do anything in your playgroup do take them out.

Value generation creatures

Creature and play reason

• Mindblade Render: Card draw
• Purphoros, God of the Forge: Combo piece and an efficient damage dealer
• Zulaport Cutthroat: Combo piece and life drainer
• Imperial Recruiter: Tutors for most of the deck
• Recruiter of the Guard: Tutors for almost all creatures in the deck
• Seasoned Pyromancer: Graveyard set-up and digs deeper
• Liliana, Heretical Healer  : Easy to flip, PW side sets up graveyard and reanimates most creatures
• Tymna the Weaver: Card draw on a creature that can be reanimated in combat
• Fiend Hunter: Combo piece and removal either hard or temporary
• Anger: Haste enabler
• Restoration Angel:Combo piece and blink value
• Felidar Guardian:Combo piece and blink value
• Solemn Simulacrum: Ramp and card draw
• Master of Cruelties: Alesha’s attack trigger bypasses Masters own attack limitation to set an opponent to 1 if they lack blockers
• Reveillark: Combo piece and re-animator
• Karmic Guide: Combo piece and re-animator
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker: Combo piece and value generator
• Leonin Relic-Warder: Artifact/Enchantment removal also has the Fiend Hunter trick
• Sun Titan: Combo piece and re-animator
• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite: Kills your opponent's creature strategies and makes your small creatures swing for lethal

Sacrifice outlets

• Blasting Station: Kill your opponents X/1 or find a loop and kill them
• Goblin Bombardment:Kill your opponents X/1 or find a loop and kill them
• Altar of Dementia:Mill yourself for more re animator targets or mill out your opponents
• Viscera Seer:Free sacrifice outlets
• Carrion Feeder:Free sacrifice outlets or make ∞/∞ creature

Combos and Loops

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker combos

1. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel / Felidar Guardian
{T} Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker targeting Restoration Angel or Felidar Guardian let the ability resolve and have the tokens enter the battlefield trigger target Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker you can then tap Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker again targeting Restoration Angel or Felidar Guardian, this will net you as many haste tokens you want. If you can't attack due to some reason sacrifice them to i.e. Altar of Dementia.
2. Karmic Guide + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
{T} Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker targeting Karmic Guide hold priority and sacrifice Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker then let the token enter the battlefield, have the token target Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker that is now in your graveyard, return Kiki. Rinse and repeat this will give infinite enter the battlefield and dies triggers.
3. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Reveillark
{T} Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker targeting Reveillark, sacrifice Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker then sacrifice Reveillark. Return Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to the battlefield. This will give you infinite enters the battlefield, dies triggers, all the sacrifices you’ll need and you can reanimate all your < 2 creatures.
4. Fiend Hunter + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
{T} Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker targeting Fiend Hunter, when the token enters the battlefield have it target Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker you can then sacrifice the token, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker will then return and you can do this again and again.

Fiend Hunter combos

1. Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan
Cast Sun Titan with Fiend Hunter in your graveyard or cast Fiend Hunter with Sun Titan in play. When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield have it exile Sun Titan with Sun Titan exiled under Fiend Hunter sacrifice it, Sun Titan will then return to play, you can then return Fiend Hunter from your graveyard and exile Sun Titan again. This will net you infinite enters the battlefield, dies triggers, all the sacrifices you’ll need.
2. Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide
See the Sun Titan combo but replace Sun Titan with Karmic Guide.
3. Fiend Hunter + Reveillark
Cast Fiend Hunter with Reveillark in play, have Fiend Hunter exile Reveillark, Reveillark leaves the battlefield trigger goes on the stack hold priority and sacrifice Fiend Hunter to return Reveillark to play, now let the Reveillark ability resolve and bring back Fiend Hunter to exile Reveillark again. Repeat for infinite enters the battlefield, dies triggers, all the sacrifices you’ll need and to bring back all other < 2 power creatures.

Reveillark combos

1. Karmic Guide + Reveillark
A classic loop, if you haven’t seen this before follow these simple as seen on TV steps. Cast Karmic Guide with Reveillark in your graveyard or evoke Reveillark while Karmic Guide is in your graveyard. With Karmic Guide’s leaves the battlefield trigger you can return Karmic Guide to play when Karmic Guide enters the battlefield you can return Reveillark then sacrifice Karmic Guide after that sacrifice Reveillark to bring back Karmic Guide. Repeat forever.
2. Felidar Guardian + Reveillark
Play Felidar Guardian target Reveillark, then sacrifice it. Reveillark, leaves, then comes back, then you place Reveillark trigger on the stack targeting Felidar Guardian in the graveyard. Repeat for infinite enters the battlefield, dies triggers, all the sacrifices you’ll need and to bring back all other < 2 power creatures.

Purphoros, God of the Forge combos

The only real combo with Purphoros, God of the Forge is playing Felidar Guardian with Restoration Angel in play or the other way around, these two creatures can blink each other indefinitely. This will give you infinite enters and leaves triggers, Purphoros, God of the Forge is the only card in the deck that cares about this. Other than that any other combo in the deck making infinite creatures or looping creatures from your graveyard will kill your opponents without a combat step.

Rest of the Deck

Tutors

• Demonic Tutor: Get any card for 2 mana
• Vampiric Tutor: Get any card for 1 mana
• Enlightened Tutor: Most combo pieces in the deck can be fetched up
• Gamble: Usually works as second demonic tutor where the discard can be a upside
• Entomb: Can put a combo piece on your graveyard in response to Alesha’s trigger
• Buried Alive: Put a combo + 1 more into your graveyard

Sweepers

• Wrath of God: Kills everything
• Fire Covenant: Life is a resource use it wisely
• Living Death: Remove the board and put a combo into play

Card draw

• Faithless Looting: Digs two deeper and sets up graveyard
• Painful Truths: Draw 3 for 3

Thank you for reading

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RBW (Mardu) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Karmic Guide + Reveillark Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide Fiend Hunter + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Karmic Guide + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Reveillark Fiend Hunter + Reveillark Felidar Guardian + Reveillark
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, The Monarch, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander