Battle Rush by Cronomage98

Format: Commander

Commander: Isshin, Two Heavens as One

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Mardu combat and aristocrats deck led by Isshin, Two Heavens as One. The strategy focuses on curving out low-cost creatures with attack triggers, deploying Isshin to double those triggers, and overwhelming opponents with rapid token swarms and burn damage. Key token generators like Otharri, Suns' Glory, Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin, and Ainok Strike Leader produce massive boards in a single combat step, while enchantments like Within Range, Raid Bombardment, and Divine Visitation scale that board into lethal reach. When opposing boards stall combat, aristocrat payoffs like Bastion of Remembrance, Marionette Apprentice, and Zulaport Cutthroat weaponize creature deaths to drain the table. While the deck possesses explosive mid-game momentum and strong backup engines in cards like Windcrag Siege, its reliance on commander synergy and open combat phases leaves it vulnerable to well-timed sweepers and heavy pillowfort effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 All-Out Assault
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chainsaw
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firebender Ascension
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Ironwill Forger
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Otharri, Suns' Glory
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Raid Bombardment
  • 1 Raph & Leo, Sibling Rivals
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Release the Dogs
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shock Brigade
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyknight Vanguard
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starry-Eyed Skyrider
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Waves of Aggression
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Within Range
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender