Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Mana value4EDHREC#2,691

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The Commander

Whenever you attack, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, choose two —

• Create two 1/1 red and white Soldier creature tokens with haste that are tapped and attacking.

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

• Caesar deals damage equal to the number of creature tokens you control to target opponent.

Guide

Gameplan

Caesar is a Mardu tokens-aristocrats commander who turns each attack into value by sacrificing a creature for two of three modes. You flood the board with tokens, sacrifice the weakest one every combat to make more soldiers, refill your hand, and burn opponents based on your token count. Win by going wide with anthems or repeatedly burning the table to death.

Strengths

Built-in card advantage every attack keeps your hand full
Token generation snowballs your board and your burn damage
The third mode is reach that closes games even through blockers
Modal flexibility means you adapt to the situation each combat

Weaknesses

Heavily reliant on having a fodder creature to sacrifice each attack
Board wipes and edicts hit your wide token strategy hard
Three-color manabase can be greedy and slow
Caesar himself must attack to trigger, exposing him to removal

Key Cards

Impact Tremors — Each Caesar token plus all your other token makers becomes incremental burn that ends games.
Mangara, the Diplomat — Punishes opponents while your constant attacks and token swarm pressure the table.
Anointed Procession — Doubles every token Caesar makes, exploding both your board width and your burn mode.
Pitiless Plunderer — Turns each sacrifice into Treasure, fueling ramp and additional plays.
Bitterblossom — A steady stream of fliers to sacrifice to Caesar every turn for free value.
Goblin Bombardment — A free sac outlet that converts excess tokens into reliable direct damage.

Upgrade Path

Add token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak) and free sac outlets to maximize Caesar's triggers and the burn mode. Tighten the manabase with fast lands, fetches, and Mardu duals, and add efficient anthems like Cathars' Crusade. Include resilience pieces such as Teferi's Protection and recursion (Reveillark, Sun Titan) to survive the board wipes that prey on token strategies.

Core Cards

From 1 Mythicwyrm deck.

Win Conditions

▸Repeated Caesar damage mode plus token doublers to burn each opponent out
▸Going wide with soldiers backed by anthems for lethal alpha strikes
▸Aristocrats drain via Impact Tremors, Blood Artist, and Zulaport Cutthroat

Archetypes

Tokens — Caesar's first mode and his burn mode reward flooding the board with creature tokens.
Aristocrats — His attack trigger sacrifices a creature, synergizing with death and sacrifice payoffs.
Go-Wide Aggro — Constant token generation plus anthems builds a lethal attacking army quickly.
Burn — The damage mode scales with token count to deal large chunks of direct damage.