assassins tribal v1 by Griffithtajg

Format: Commander

Commander: Ramses, Assassin Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Assassin tribal strategy led by Ramses, Assassin Lord. The primary game plan deploys low-cost, evasive Assassins in the early turns, establishing steady card advantage through combat damage engines like Bident of Thassa, Reconnaissance Mission, and Ezio, Blade of Vengeance. The deck softens life totals using chunk damage from threats like Unstoppable Slasher and evasion granters such as Cover of Darkness and Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive. Once an opponent enters lethal striking range, the deck casts Ramses, Assassin Lord. Attacking and killing that single player triggers Ramses's ability, immediately winning the entire game. The deck also features strong fallback routes through Living Death mass reanimation, Marionette Master artifact drain, and disruptive utility pieces such as Notion Thief and Mari, the Killing Quill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Achilles Davenport
  • 1 Agate-Blade Assassin
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin Initiate
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Callidus Assassin
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Deathcap Marionette
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Lazav, Familiar Stranger
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lydia Frye
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Omni-Changeling
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rooftop Assassin
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scythe Specter
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silumgar Assassin
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat