Assassin by TwistedLunar

Format: Commander

Commander: Etrata, the Silencer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 81

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir combo-control list that utilizes Etrata, the Silencer as an unblockable utility threat while centering its primary game plan on the compact Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation win condition. Fast mana rocks like Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, and Sol Ring accelerate early development, allowing powerful tutors such as Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor to assemble the winning pieces by Turn 3. The list protects its proactive push with format-defining free countermagic, including Force of Will, Force of Negation, and Flusterstorm. If the initial combo is delayed, robust card-advantage engines like Rhystic Study, The One Ring, and Ad Nauseam refill hand resources rapidly. The deck also features a secondary combat-oriented win vector utilizing Ramses, Assassin Lord and clone effects to trigger sudden game loss for opponents through Assassin damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Siren's Ruse
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall