Assassin by SailorSmithsonian

Format: Commander

Commander: Ramses, Assassin Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Ramses, Assassin Lord to convert single-player combat eliminations into immediate table-wide victories. In the opening turns, the deck deploys cheap, evasive Assassins like Changeling Outcast alongside low-curve mana acceleration and card advantage engines such as Black Market Connections. After deploying Ramses on Turn 4, the deck seeks out high-impact player-elimination tools including Hatred, Wound Reflection combined with life-halving attackers, or Vorpal Sword. When an unblocked Assassin deals lethal damage to an opponent, Ramses's triggered ability resolves instantly to win the entire game, bypassing the need to grind through the remaining opponents' life totals. A robust Dimir interaction suite featuring efficient counterspells and removal provides cover during critical combat windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Achilles Davenport
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Assassin Gauntlet
  • 1 Assassin Initiate
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Brotherhood Spy
  • 1 Callidus Assassin
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Desmond Miles
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Double Down
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Evie Frye
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hatred
  • 1 Hidden Blade
  • 1 Hired Poisoner
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jacob Frye
  • 1 Kiku, Night's Flower
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lydia Frye
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Mask of Riddles
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Ravenloft Adventurer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Bypass
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Scarblade Elite
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Smoke Bomb
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Termination Facilitator
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Virtus the Veiled
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wound Reflection