Obscura Operation by chestnut

Format: Commander

Commander: Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Esper tempo deck leverages Kamiz, Obscura Oculus to turn combat-damage triggers into game-winning value engines. The game plan opens with low-cost evasive creatures that attack freely once Kamiz enters on turn 4. Each combat phase gives one creature unblockable status and connive filtering, while a smaller creature gains double strike. This setup turns saboteur effects on cards like Thief of Sanity, Unstoppable Slasher, and Fallen Shinobi into severe threats that steal cards and halve life totals. The deck supports this aggressive pressure with flexible spot removal, asymmetric sweepers like Dusk // Dawn, and graveyard value engines like Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer. While it lacks infinite combos and requires multiple turns of combat to eliminate three opponents, its steady card draw and unblockable attackers provide reliable, compounding board advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aerial Extortionist
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archon of Coronation
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Cephalid Facetaker
• 1 Change of Plans
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commit // Memory
• 1 Creeping Tar Pit
• 1 Currency Converter
• 1 Daring Saboteur
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Daxos of Meletis
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Enter the Enigma
• 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
• 1 Esper Panorama
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fallen Shinobi
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Ghostly Pilferer
• 1 Graveblade Marauder
• 1 Identity Thief
• 1 In Too Deep
• 1 Inkfathom Witch
• 6 Island
• 1 Jailbreak
• 1 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Life Insurance
• 1 Mask of Riddles
• 1 Mask of the Schemer
• 1 Misfortune Teller
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nadir Kraken
• 1 Nightmare Unmaking
• 1 Obscura Charm
• 1 Obscura Confluence
• 1 Obscura Storefront
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 5 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Profane Command
• 1 Quietus Spike
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Satoru Umezawa
• 1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
• 1 Silent-Blade Oni
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Skyway Robber
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Smuggler's Share
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stolen Identity
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thriving Isle
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Walker of Secret Ways
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Whirler Rogue
• 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
• 1 Writ of Return