Overview:

This Ezio Auditore da Firenze deck focuses on Assassin tribal synergies, leveraging freerunning cost reductions and combat damage triggers to deploy threats while setting up lethal via Ezio’s 10-life ability or Assassin-based combos. The strategy combines evasive creatures, equipment, and recursion to maintain pressure and exploit historic synergies.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
Deploy low-cost Assassins (e.g., Basim Ibn Ishaq, Evie Frye) with evasion (menace, unblockable) to trigger freerunning costs and Ezio’s life-triggered win condition. Key phases:

1. Early Setup: Ramp via Sol Ring, Kodama's Reach, and fix mana with Chromatic Lantern.
2. Combat Synergies: Equip Assassins with Brotherhood Regalia or Sword of Feast and Famine to ensure damage triggers. Use Coastal Piracy and Assassin Gauntlet for card advantage.
3. Win Conditions:
   • Activate Ezio’s {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} ability when opponents are at ≤10 life.
   • Assemble Ramses, Assassin Lord + lethal combat damage.
   • Resolve Vraska the Unseen’s ultimate for instant-kill tokens.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 3 lands, 1-2 ramp spells (e.g., Arcane Signet), and an evasive Assassin.
• Prioritize equipment or protection (Lightning Greaves) if Ezio is central to the plan.

Key Tips:

• Use Reconnaissance to safely trigger combat damage without losing creatures.
• Recur key Assassins/equipment with Layla Hassan or Reconstruct History.
• Protect Ramses, Assassin Lord—his global win condition is critical.

Weaknesses:

Critical

• Relies on combat damage: Easily disrupted by fog effects, mass removal, or flying blockers.
• Glass-cannon combos: Ramses, Assassin Lord and Vraska the Unseen are fragile to removal.

Moderate

• Slow recovery: Limited recursion outside historic synergies.
• Mana intensity: Ezio’s game-ending ability requires 5 colors.

Minor

• Graveyard reliance: Some recursion but vulnerable to Rest in Peace.

Most Important Cards:

• Ramses, Assassin Lord
• Vraska the Unseen
• Sword of Feast and Famine
• Excalibur, Sword of Eden
• Dark Petition
• Diabolic Tutor
• Layla Hassan
• Reconnaissance
• Brotherhood Regalia
• Coastal Piracy

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 6/10

• Can threaten wins via combat or combos by turns 8-10, but requires setup for Ezio’s ability or Assassin swarms.

Resilience: 5/10

• Moderate protection (hexproof equipment, counterspells) but folds to repeated board wipes.

Consistency: 6/10

• 5 tutors and strong card draw from combat triggers, but freerunning dependency limits flexibility.

Interaction: 6/10

• Efficient removal (Assassin's Trophy, Path to Exile) and counterspells (Mana Drain), but lacks free interaction.

Rating Justification:

The deck has focused synergies and combo potential but is held back by reliance on combat and moderate interaction. It aligns with Optimized Casual (T8-10 wins via combat/combos) but lacks cEDH speed or resilience.

Power level: 5.0 - 6.0