isshin by user8434846

Format: Commander

Commander: Isshin, Two Heavens as One

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Mardu aggressive token deck helmed by Isshin, Two Heavens as One. The strategy focuses on curving out efficient attack-trigger threats that produce creature tokens, buff attacking bodies, or drain opposing life totals on attack. By doubling every attack trigger, Isshin rapidly escalates modest boards into game-ending swarms. The deck deploys early ramp on Turn 2, casts Isshin on Turn 3, and resolves a premier token creator like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar or Hero of Bladehold on Turn 4. By Turn 5, it compounds this advantage with drain payoffs such as Commissar Severina Raine or Brutal Hordechief, draining the table while applying heavy combat pressure. Because it relies heavily on creature permanents and lacks nonland tutors or dense defensive protection, it is susceptible to well-timed sweepers, but its high internal redundancy allows it to rebuild and threaten lethal combat damage consistently.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 All-Out Assault
  • 1 Araña, Heart of the Spider
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aurelia, the Law Above
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Azula, On the Hunt
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brutal Hordechief
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Colonel Autumn
  • 1 Combustion Man
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Cruel Administrator
  • 1 Dalkovan Packbeasts
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fervent Charge
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fire Navy Trebuchet
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Goldnight Commander
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 Horn of the Mark
  • 1 Inevitable Defeat
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Ironwill Forger
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 J. Jonah Jameson
  • 1 Kinscaer Sentry
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Martyr's Bond
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
  • 1 Neriv, Heart of the Storm
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Postmortem Professor
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sinkhole Surveyor
  • 1 Slash, Reptile Rampager
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sozin's Comet
  • 1 Starry-Eyed Skyrider
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Thunder of Unity
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender
  • 1 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree