Assassination Nation by user5087999

Format: Commander

Commander: Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color Assassin tribal deck helmed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, built around two interlocking mechanics: the freerunning mechanic and Ezio's alternate win condition. The plan is to connect with Ezio early - a 3/2 menace that can hit on turn 3 - and then use his ability to give every Assassin spell freerunning {B}{B}, dumping a swarm of evasive Assassins onto the board at a steep discount. Combat damage from the swarm, plus drain effects like Raven Eagle, Shadow, Mysterious Assassin, and Arbaaz Mir, reduces opponents to 10 or less life, at which point Ezio's triggered ability pays {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} to end the game. The deck also carries a conventional combat finish in Overrun and Shared Animosity, and a deep recursion layer via Altair Ibn-La'Ahad, Jacob Frye, and Layla Hassan. The 39-land, five-color mana base is slow but heavily fixed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Achilles Davenport
• 1 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
• 1 Arbaaz Mir
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arno Dorian
• 1 Asgardian Citadel
• 1 Assassin Initiate
• 1 Aya of Alexandria
• 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
• 1 Baxter Building
• 1 Bayek of Siwa
• 1 Big Game Hunter
• 1 Binding the Old Gods
• 1 Brokers Charm
• 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
• 1 Chain Assassination
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crystal Quarry
• 1 Desmond Miles
• 1 Dimir Guildgate
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Distant Melody
• 1 Eagle Vision
• 1 Evie Frye
• 1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze
• 1 Ezio, Brash Novice
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 6 Forest
• 1 Forum of Amity
• 1 Gruul Guildgate
• 1 Heirloom Blade
• 1 Hidden Blade
• 3 Island
• 1 Jacob Frye
• 1 Layla Hassan
• 1 Lydia Frye
• 1 Maestros Charm
• 1 Massacre Girl
• 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
• 1 Monastery Raid
• 1 Mortify
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Murder
• 1 Ochran Assassin
• 1 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw
• 1 Omni-Changeling
• 1 Overrun
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Poison-Blade Mentor
• 1 Raise the Draugr
• 1 Ratonhnhaké꞉ton
• 1 Raven Eagle
• 1 Refute
• 1 Reno and Rude
• 1 Restart Sequence
• 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
• 1 Shared Animosity
• 1 Shay Cormac
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunlit Marsh
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Reclamation
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Thraximundar
• 1 Thriving Bluff
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thriving Isle
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Timeless Lotus
• 1 Twinblade Assassins
• 1 Viewpoint Synchronization
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Winnowing
• 1 Wrecking Ball Arm