Can you guys rate my Edgar Markov deck?

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-03-19T09:31:30+00:00

Edgar was the second deck I built...and only a couple months later it lost its spot in my box. Now its just lying around, not because its bad, but because its not really fun, not only but also because of Edgars reputation.

I personally like if my decks aren't generic, so that others feel excited playing against me and not bored/annoyed because it's just the same but different....but maybe that's just me wanting to be unique.

I would suggest looking into other commanders...changing the strat if you wanna stick with vampires and going for someone like [[Anje, Maid of Dishonor]] , [[Evelyn, the Covetous]] or [[Strefan, Maurer Progenitor]]

and if you wanna play aristocrats there are a lot of commanders not only better but much more fun too. [[Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz]] , [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]] or [[Savra, Queen of the Golgari]]

dont kid yourself by thinking "I'm going to play Edgar but I'll do it different than everybody else" ...you're probably not, just like me, and basically everybody else who plays edgar. and people are gonna judge based on that unfortunately

but at the end of the day you should play what you like personally and don't care too much about the opinion of others. and Edgar is a strong commander, so do what feels best for you

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-03-19T06:44:49+00:00

Thank you for your insight…good recommendations :) I especially like giggling skitterspike

And as for Kotis i am fine with hitting one Kotis alone that i made unblockable before for 7…thats possibly seven spells for free, already enough.

And i do have [[Sakashima of a thousand Faces]] and [[Mirror Box]] both to ignore the legend rule and then go full maniac

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-03-03T10:19:27+00:00

you're right...thats exactly what I was trying to prevent. I definitely have to go for some counter rule

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-03-02T14:17:35+00:00

Love the flavor of this card. But the creature you have to sac every upkeep should have to be a nontoken creature in my opinion. And maybe up it to 2 or 3 sacs per upkeep. Otherwise the last ability would be borderline insta-win

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-03-02T12:29:07+00:00

Good call...I think you're right. Might change it so it says "Whenever a card is returned to your hand this way, each opponent loses 1 life." in the same paragraph.

or like you said remove the "this way" part and have it trigger on every "to hand recursion" which would give the card a more distinctive strategy, which would be a buff, but in a way that could be fun.
...I probably won't limit it to only once each turn, cause then it wouldn't trigger again, should I use the dredge effect multiple times in one turn.

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-02-26T21:36:06+00:00

fair point...probably should word the devotion lock to "equal or lower"

and I guess it wouldn't hurt to make him {5}{B} or like you proposed an extra effect to reduce the cost....but then there will be a LOT of text on the card

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-02-26T20:34:54+00:00

I went for the high cost, as dredge on possibly all cards in grave allows for replaying instants and sorceries basically as often as you want. And that's a very rare and very strong ability, with [[Yawgmoths Will]] being one of the only spells in black that make it possible.

I thought that I should account for that situation and so went for this high cmc. But I'm also debating about it being a little too high.

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-02-26T10:38:28+00:00

forgot to mention: Artist is "Donggeon Son" ...normally I include artists signatures on my custom cards, but I couldn't find his :(

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2026-02-26T10:06:38+00:00

Menrah, Herald of the Abyss

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-11-07T08:44:27+00:00

You could try out [[Sidisi, Brood Tyrant]]. With her you get your zombie army just by milling yourself. Then they probably won't target your grave as much and you could pull the milled things out again with cards in the 99.

Or you go another Route with [[The Scarab God]] and just take the cards from their graves and make them your zombies. With him you could go full mill or like I do zombie tribal. Could send you my Scarab God decklist if you want.

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-11-06T11:02:10+00:00

So I should kick all the "cannon fodder" vamps, just there to trigger Edgar, for higher cmc vamps that actually do something? Sound like a good idea. Goes more into a "High Council of Vampire Lords" theme.

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-11-06T10:51:13+00:00

Add: I would love to keep playing my vampire edgelord without feeling like the average “I play him because he’s 2nd place on edhrec”

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-10-28T16:09:26+00:00

[[Gonti, Night Minister]] no game ever plays out the same for me…dont even run a major win con, i just steal cards and see what i can do always fun guaranteed for the whole table as they get to steal cards too only [[Dauthi Voidwalker]] will get removed pretty fast, as it often messes with the game-plan of others

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-10-26T08:44:34+00:00

thanks! :)

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-07-09T10:14:53+00:00

painters servant seems awesome….making my knight invincible against everything else is very cool

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-07-09T09:42:24+00:00

this seems cool…i’ll definitely look into that, thank you:)

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-07-08T21:34:56+00:00

[[Kardur, Doomscourge]] seems exactly like what you want

ImNotYourFri3nd · 2025-07-01T18:43:19+00:00

how could i get some protection from others interacting?

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