Jin Sakai

Format: Commander

Commander: Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper combat control build centered on Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima. The primary game plan accelerates into an early Jin Sakai cast, leveraging his modal combat trigger to grant either double strike or unblockability to solo attackers. Connecting with double strike turns Jin Sakai into a powerful card engine that draws two cards each turn cycle. The deck supports this aggressive core with a dedicated equipment package featuring Genji Glove, Sword of Feast and Famine, and Buster Sword, alongside damage multipliers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Delney, Streetwise Lookout. To ensure attacks resolve safely, the deck deploys premier turn-silencing pieces such as Grand Abolisher and Voice of Victory, backed by a world-class reactive interaction suite containing Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deadly Rollick. The deck wins by systematically eliminating opponents over turns five through seven through overwhelming commander damage, extra combat steps, or lethal infect strikes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Eiganjo Castle
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Watery Grave