Ares Blight Master
Ares, God of War Commander Deck
Ares, God of War leads an aggressive sacrifice and attrition engine that floods the board with attacking creatures, returns them to hand when they die in combat, and replays them repeatedly to trigger death-based drain effects from cards like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Kardur, Doomscourge. The deck layers a -1/-1 counter subtheme through wither creatures and effects like Carnifex Demon and Midnight Banshee, spreading counters to weaken and kill opponents' creatures while The Scorpion God converts those deaths into card advantage. Opponents are ground down through repeated life loss triggers from death and attack events, Treasure generation fueling mana for the engine, and mass damage spells to reset boards while Ares' recursion ensures your threats never truly stay dead.
Decklist
- Black Sun's Zenith
- Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
- Blightbeetle
- The Sackville-Bagginses
- Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
- Vampiric Rites
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Phyrexian Arena
- Captain Lannery Storm
- Fling
- Everlasting Torment
- 12× Mountain
- 16× Swamp
- Dark Fortress
- Interceptor Mechan
- Ifnir Deadlands
- Blood Artist
- Squirrelanoids
- Epic Downfall
- Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
- The Scorpion God
- Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
- Massacre Girl, Known Killer
- Kulrath Knight
- Patron of the Arts
- Nadier's Nightblade
- Rat King, Verminister
- Liliana, Death Wielder
- Wander Off
- Blowfly Infestation
- Mortuary Mire
- Liliana's Influence
- Slash, Reptile Rampager
- Blasphemous Act
- Skullport Merchant
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Festering Mummy
- Nest of Scarabs
- Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
- Long-Range Sensor
- Sneak Attack
- Midnight Banshee
- Diamond Pick-Axe
- Multiversal Passage
- Al Bhed Salvagers
- Sol Ring
- Judith, the Scourge Diva
- Soul Snuffers
- Carnifex Demon
- Corrosive Mentor
- Weftstalker Ardent
- Arcane Signet
- Footlight Fiend
- Delta Bloodflies
- Splinter's Technique
- Dragonskull Summit
- Morbid Opportunist
- Bender's Waterskin
- Fire Navy Trebuchet
- Grave Venerations
- Postmortem Professor
- Typhoid Mary, Fractured
- Bile-Vial Boggart
- Razor Swine
- Typhoid Rats
- Path of Ancestry
- Kardur, Doomscourge
- Rising of the Day
- Butcher of Malakir
- Command Tower
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Necroskitter
- Perforating Artist