ASSASSINO by user6503494

Format: Commander

Commander: Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color Assassin tribal deck commanded by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, whose alternate-win condition reads "whenever Ezio deals combat damage to a player, if that player has 10 or less life, you may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} - that player loses the game." The primary game plan is to rapidly reduce opponents' life totals using half-life effects (Unstoppable Slasher, Virtus the Veiled, Sorin Markov), then connect with an unblockable Ezio to trigger the win. The deck leverages the Assassin creature type for freerunning discounts on spells like Chain Assassination and Restart Sequence, and includes a historic subtheme (Basim Ibn Ishaq, Layla Hassan) that provides additional card advantage and recursion. Secondary win conditions include Ramses, Assassin Lord (if an opponent loses the game, you win) and straightforward combat damage from large assassins like Thraximundar. The deck is built around a 10-life threshold, with multiple redundant effects to reach that state and then deliver the final blow.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Bayek of Siwa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Callidus Assassin
  • 1 Chain Assassination
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Ezio, Brash Novice
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Heirloom Blade
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Layla Hassan
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roshan, Hidden Magister
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Shay Cormac
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thraximundar
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Virtus the Veiled
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman