Death Quickly by FlamesUp13

Format: Commander

Commander: Etrata, the Silencer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck executes a focused alternate win-condition strategy centered on Etrata, the Silencer. Etrata is an unblockable 3/5 Assassin that exiles an opponent's creature with a hit counter whenever she deals combat damage to that player, causing any opponent with three hit counters on exiled cards to lose the game. Under normal circumstances, Etrata's combat trigger shuffles her into her owner's library. This deck overcomes that restriction by packing over 25 instant-speed bounce, flicker, and phasing spells. By responding to Etrata's damage trigger on the stack, the pilot resets or bounces Etrata to hand or battlefield before the shuffle resolves, keeping her permanently deployed. The deck incorporates trigger copiers like Echo, Perceptive Prodigy and Adric, Mathematical Genius to stack multiple hit counters per swing, alongside Ramses, Assassin Lord as a table-ending finisher. While resilient and evasion-focused, the deck eliminates opponents sequentially across multiple combat turns.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Adric, Mathematical Genius
  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 Alchemist's Retrieval
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Bounce Off
  • 1 Call to Heel
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curfew
  • 1 Depart the Realm
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Echo, Perceptive Prodigy
  • 1 Ephara's Dispersal
  • 1 Escape Detection
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Geistwave
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Gossip's Talent
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Illusionist's Stratagem
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Just the Wind
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peel from Reality
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Portal of Sanctuary
  • 1 Quickling
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Ravenloft Adventurer
  • 1 Reality Ripple
  • 1 Release to the Wind
  • 1 Rescue
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Seal of Removal
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spaceshift
  • 1 String of Disappearances
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 This Town Ain't Big Enough
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Vedalken Mastermind
  • 1 Vren, the Relentless
  • 1 Wipe Away
  • 1 You Come to a River