Alesha Infernal Enchantress: Sheathing the Sword

Commander / EDH* Combo Control Enchantment RBW (Mardu)

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Enchantment (31)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Brave the Sands
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Death Pits of Rath
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Greed
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Lightmine Field
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Seal of Cleansing
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Spreading Plague
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x War's Toll

Instant (1)

• 1x Ad Nauseam

Land (36)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 8x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 6x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Artifact (10)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Matrix
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Magus of the Tabernacle
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Queen Marchesa
• 1x Ravos, Soultender
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Rout
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Enchantment (12)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Indestructibility
• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Marshal's Anthem
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Season of the Witch
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Creature (6)

• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Homura, Human Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Palace Jailer
• 1x Restoration Specialist

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Decree of Pain

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Who wants to live forever when you can all die together? Almost.

This is kind of a tricky deck because the general is mono-red and people often don't realize that she has Mardu color identity; it's named Sheathing the Sword because you have to bring yourself past the brink of death to defeat your enemies at the last moment with the most tenuous grip on life. It's mostly an enchantress deck with a pretty sweet board control enchantment package of Lightmine Field + Death Pits of Rath and Tainted AEther + Spreading Plague. So if creatures attack, they die; when colored creatures enter the battlefield they board wipe all other creatures of the same color and force their controller to sac a creature or land. Since Alesha is the only creature (except for very rarely, Iroas), nothing else will kill her from my deck. She can't attack either unless I have Eldrazi Monument, but the deck doesn't really need her. She does great work as allowing me to recur the utility creatures and enchantments-matter creatures.

Alesha is also the perfect general for this deck as her name is "Who Smiles at Death" and that is literally referential to the deck's strategy of greating Death as an old friend, accepting it, and then using it to defeat your enemies. The wincon is usually Phyrexian Unlife + Ad Nauseam + Repay in Kind to drain everybody's life to -100 or more.

Top Ranked	Achieved #43 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	UG
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Monarch Emblem
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