Joining the winning team. by ikiller2009

Format: Commander

Commander: Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir tempo build commanded by Etrata, Deadly Fugitive, focusing on Assassin typal synergies, combat evasion, and face-down creature mechanics. The strategy deploys low-cost, evasive Assassins on the first two turns to guarantee combat damage triggers once Etrata enters on Turn 3. Every combat connection cloaks the top card of an opponent's library, generating 2/2 creature tokens that double as stolen spells castable via Etrata's face-up ability. The deck compounds this advantage using cost reducers like Training Grounds, card engines like Reconnaissance Mission and Ezio, Blade of Vengeance, and board evasion from Cover of Darkness and Roshan, Hidden Magister. It closes games on Turns 8–9 through an unblockable creature swarm, life-halving attacks with Unstoppable Slasher, or an instant table win via Ramses, Assassin Lord. A balanced suite of counterspells and removal provides reactive safety during development.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Achilles Davenport
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin Initiate
  • 1 Aven Heartstabber
  • 1 Back in Town
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Brotherhood Spy
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Impostor
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Death in Heaven
  • 1 Desmond Miles
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Evie Frye
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Hookblade Veteran
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Ixidor, Reality Sculptor
  • 1 Jacob Frye
  • 1 Jeskai Infiltrator
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Lydia Frye
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Petty Larceny
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rogue Class
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Bypass
  • 1 Roshan, Hidden Magister
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Scarblade Elite
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 They Came from the Pipes
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Twist Reality
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment