We Work in the Dark to Serve the Light (Ezio High Power) by boredboardgamer

Format: Commander

Commander: Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a high-power five-color Assassin tribal midrange deck helmed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The core plan leverages Ezio's freerunning discount to flood the board with cheap Assassins, connect for combat damage behind evasion and equipment, then close via alternate-win triggers. Primary finishes are Ezio's WUBRG execute (once an opponent is at 10 life or less), Ramses, Assassin Lord turning any opponent loss into a table win, and Vorpal Sword's activated "lose the game" clause. Supporting packages include a dense reanimation suite (Entomb, Buried Alive, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, Yawgmoth's Will), premium fast mana, and classic draw engines. The deck plays as proactive combat pressure that pivots into decisive single-player eliminations rather than pure infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anhelo, the Painter
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Aven Heartstabber
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Callidus Assassin
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dockside Extortionist
  • 1 Eivor, Battle-Ready
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Blade
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Crypt
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Ochran Assassin
  • 1 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Silumgar Assassin
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ball
  • 1 Thraximundar
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Twinblade Assassins
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unstable Harmonics
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Virtus the Veiled
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will