Assassins Abound by OriginalSith

Format: Commander

Commander: Ramses, Assassin Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Dimir Assassin tribal deck, helmed by Ramses, Assassin Lord, aims to overwhelm opponents with evasive, deathtouch-laden assassins while accelerating life loss through half-life effects and alternate win conditions. The primary path is combat damage: using unblockable creatures and equipment like Whispersilk Cloak and Brotherhood Regalia to connect, then halving life totals with Quietus Spike, Unstoppable Slasher, or Grievous Wound. The commander ensures all assassins have deathtouch and provides a game-ending trigger if an opponent loses after being attacked by an assassin. A proliferate subtheme (Inexorable Tide, Tezzeret's Gambit) supports both poison counters from Phyresis and hit counters from Mari, the Killing Quill, offering incremental advantage. The deck lacks fast infinite combos but compensates with resilient recursion (Back in Town) and a solid interaction suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Achilles Davenport
• 1 Aqueous Form
• 1 Assassin Gauntlet
• 1 Assassin Initiate
• 1 Aven Heartstabber
• 1 Back in Town
• 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
• 1 Big Game Hunter
• 1 Bile-Vial Boggart
• 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Brotherhood Spy
• 1 Callidus Assassin
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contentious Plan
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Impostor
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Desmond Miles
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Donatello's Technique
• 1 Double Down
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eagle Vision
• 1 Enter the Enigma
• 1 Etrata, the Silencer
• 1 Experimental Augury
• 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Grievous Wound
• 1 Hidden Blade
• 1 Hired Poisoner
• 1 Hope's Aero Magic
• 1 Inexorable Tide
• 13 Island
• 1 Lydia Frye
• 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
• 1 Massacre Girl
• 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
• 1 Midnight Assassin
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Negate
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Omni-Changeling
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phyresis
• 1 Prologue to Phyresis
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Quietus Spike
• 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rooftop Bypass
• 1 Royal Assassin
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sleep
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steady Progress
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 13 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Termination Facilitator
• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1 Thornbite Staff
• 1 Unstable Harmonics
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Virtus the Veiled
• 1 Vorpal Sword
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak