Jin saknuts by user7828216

Format: Commander

Commander: Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper combat-saboteur strategy built around Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima. It utilizes Jin's Standoff and Ghost choices to slip past opposing blockers and draw cards, scaling threat density through equipment like Quietus Spike and Grafted Exoskeleton, or secondary saboteurs like Virtus the Veiled. Early turns prioritize mana development through rocks like Arcane Signet and color-fixing lands, setting up a Turn 4 commander cast. On Turn 5, Jin connects unblocked to draw cards, escalating into a must-answer damage clock on Turn 6 once equipped. The deck includes efficient interaction such as Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, and Toxic Deluge to control opposing threats. However, because Jin's triggers require attacking alone, damage must be applied sequentially to one opponent at a time. This prolongs the clock across multiple turns and gives opponents ample time to find removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha's Legacy
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 2 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Custodi Lich
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Eiganjo Castle
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Fortuitous Find
  • 1 Gandalf the White
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glamdring
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Graveblade Marauder
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Light the Way
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Momentary Blink
  • 1 Mox Tantalite
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Obscura Charm
  • 1 Pacifism
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 2 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Strike Technique
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spellbook
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Summon: Ixion
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of War and Peace
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Virtus the Veiled
  • 1 Vivid Marsh
  • 1 Winds of Abandon