Tensa Zangetsu by user4554608

Format: Commander

Commander: Isshin, Two Heavens as One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Mardu aggro deck built around Isshin doubling attack triggers. Primary plan is to deploy Isshin on turn 3 and attack with token producers whose triggers build an overwhelming board; doubled Adeline/Myrel/Vanguard triggers quickly make 10+ attacking bodies. Secondary paths are Kaalia cheating large Angels/Demons/Dragons and the Mishra/Phyrexian Dragon Engine meld as a surprise haymaker. Isshin is the force multiplier; every combat-focused card is chosen to give more tokens, damage, card draw, or extra combos when its trigger is copied. Alesha/Drana/Sun Titan provide recursion. No true hidden commander, but the Mishra meld can function like one when assembled.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1 Anger
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Brave the Sands
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Brutal Hordechief
• 1 Captain Lannery Storm
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commissar Severina Raine
• 1 Crackling Doom
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Damn
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dolmen Gate
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
• 1 Emberwilde Captain
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explorer's Scope
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei
• 1 Greatsword of Tyr
• 1 Iroas, God of Victory
• 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
• 1 Kaalia of the Vast
• 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
• 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
• 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mana Tithe
• 1 Mardu Ascendancy
• 1 Mardu Shadowspear
• 1 Mishra, Claimed by Gix
• 1 Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia
• 1 Mortify
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Phyrexian Dragon Engine
• 8 Plains
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakshasa Debaser
• 1 Reaper's Talisman
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Response // Resurgence
• 1 Robber of the Rich
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Shiny Impetus
• 1 Skyknight Vanguard
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Sun Titan
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sword of the Animist
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Triumphant Adventurer
• 1 Unquenchable Fury
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Waves of Aggression
• 1 You Are Already Dead