slimed by Zarshan

Format: Commander

Commander: Ramses, Assassin Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dimir Assassin tribal aggro-combo strategy commanded by Ramses, Assassin Lord. Its game plan exploits Ramses' unique triggered ability: whenever any single opponent loses the game after being attacked by an Assassin you control, you win the entire game. The deck establishes early tempo using cheap, evasive Assassins like Changeling Outcast, Basim Ibn Ishaq, and Hookblade Veteran, enhanced by unblockable enablers like Brotherhood Regalia and Cover of Darkness. Card advantage flows through coastal piracy effects like Reconnaissance Mission, Bident of Thassa, and Ezio, Blade of Vengeance, alongside Rhystic Study. Once Ramses is deployed, the deck converts an unblocked attack into an immediate table kill using burst damage enablers like Hatred, Vorpal Sword, or Tainted Strike. A premier suite of free and low-cost countermagic shields the lethal turn, eliminating the need to grind through 120 total opposing life.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Achilles Davenport
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin Initiate
  • 1 Aven Heartstabber
  • 1 Back in Town
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desmond Miles
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Hatred
  • 1 Hired Poisoner
  • 1 Hookblade Veteran
  • 1 Interceptor, Shadow's Hound
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lydia Frye
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Bypass
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Virtus the Veiled
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Watery Grave