Assassin's Creed: Orzhov by Psyga315

Format: Commander

Commander: Shay Cormac

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Assassin tribal build helmed by Shay Cormac, a cheap commander who strips protective keywords from opponents' permanents and grows via bounty counters from targeted removal. The primary game plan is to deploy evasive assassins, equip them, and exploit the **freerunning** mechanic-casting spells at a discount after dealing combat damage with an Assassin or your commander. Value accrues through recurring creatures (Layla Hassan, Jacob Frye), conditional draw (Morbid Opportunist, Black Market Connections), and pressure via menace/deathtouch. The deck lacks infinite combos and wins through incremental combat damage, commander damage from a pumped Shay Cormac, or a final board wipe (What Must Be Done or Fall of the First Civilization) that resets the board in your favor. The strategy is midrange grind-slow to establish but resilient once the engine turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrestia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin Initiate
  • 1 Battlefield Improvisation
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bleeding Effect
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bounty Board
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Brotherhood Ambushers
  • 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
  • 1 Brotherhood Patriarch
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chain Assassination
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Conspiracy
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Desmond Miles
  • 1 Detained by Legionnaires
  • 1 Distract the Guards
  • 1 Escarpment Fortress
  • 1 Fall of the First Civilization
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fleshtaker
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Haystack
  • 1 Hemlock Vial
  • 1 Hidden Blade
  • 1 Hired Blade
  • 1 Hookblade
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jacob Frye
  • 1 Keen-Eyed Raven
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Layla Hassan
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Merciless Harlequin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Petty Larceny
  • 1 Phantom Blade
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Poison-Blade Mentor
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roshan, Hidden Magister
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
  • 1 Settlement Blacksmith
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shambling Vent
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shay Cormac
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tax Collector
  • 1 Templar Knight
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Revelations of Ezio
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 What Must Be Done
  • 1 Winter Soldier, Icy Assassin