-500 Jin Sakai (Copy) by Jared11797

Format: Commander

Commander: Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper combat-saboteur midrange deck piloted by Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima. It leverages Jin's modal trigger—granting an isolated attacker either unblockability through Ghost or double strike through Standoff—to maximize the efficiency of saboteur creatures and combat-triggered Equipment. Dense 2-CMC artifact acceleration ensures Jin lands ahead of curve on Turn 3, leading directly to a Turn 4 operational attack. Critical onset arrives on Turn 5 through punishing saboteurs like Unstoppable Slasher and Shredder, Shadow Master, or high-impact artifacts like Sword of Feast and Famine and Genji Glove. While the deck possesses explosive single-target pressure and elite defensive spells like Teferi's Protection and Fierce Guardianship, its reliance on multi-turn fair combat across three opponents without infinite combos means closing the table requires navigating three response cycles, exposing its board to sweepers and attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Heist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Combat Research
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eiganjo Castle
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Quintessential Katana
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sigarda's Aid
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel of the Godhead
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Stolen Identity
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow