Jin Sakai - Update by user8529419

Format: Commander

Commander: Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper combat-tempo midrange strategy commanded by Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima. It pairs aggressive saboteur creatures with disruptive stax pieces, leveraging Jin Sakai's combat trigger to grant solo attackers either unblockable evasion or double strike. In the early turns, the deck establishes mana fixing, deploys taxing creatures such as Drannith Magistrate and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, and resolves low-cost saboteurs. Once Jin Sakai enters on Turn 4, every combat step generates card advantage or pushes massive life loss. Lethal multipliers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Unstoppable Slasher rapidly eliminate opponents one by one. The strategy protects its board using silence effects from Grand Abolisher and Yuriko, Blade of the Mighty, alongside flexible phase-out spells like Teferi's Protection. High-impact sweepers such as Farewell and Cyclonic Rift reset opposing boards while preserving your own momentum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pest Control
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Suppressor Skyguard
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Treachery
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, Blade of the Mighty