Instant (29)
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1x
Assassin's Ink
- 1x Black Sun's Twilight
- 1x Cremate
- 1x Dark Bargain
- 1x Dark Dabbling
- 1x Dark Ritual
- 1x Eat to Extinction
- 1x Erebos's Intervention
- 1x Extinguish the Light
- 1x Grim Return
- 1x Hatred
- 1x Hero's Demise
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1x
Hero's Downfall
- 1x Imp's Mischief
- 1x Infernal Grasp
- 1x Moonlight Bargain
- 1x Poison the Cup
- 1x Price of Fame
- 1x Scour from Existence
- 1x Sheoldred's Edict
- 1x Slaughter Pact
- 1x Sudden Death
- 1x Sudden Spoiling
- 1x Tainted Strike
- 1x Thrilling Encore
- 1x Tragic Slip
- 1x Vona's Hunger
- 1x Withering Boon
- 1x Wretched Confluence
Planeswalker (1)
Creature (13)
- 1x Activated Sleeper
- 1x Ascendant Evincar
- 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
- 1x Crypt Ghast
- 1x Doom Whisperer
- 1x Dread Presence
- 1x Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
- 1x Harvester of Souls
- 1x Kamber, the Plunderer
- 1x Oriq Loremage
- 1x Overseer of the Damned
- 1x Sangromancer
- 1x Sedgemoor Witch
Artifact (10)
- 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
- 1x Arcane Signet
- 1x Bolas's Citadel
- 1x Fireshrieker
- 1x Jet Medallion
- 1x Lightning Greaves
- 1x Primal Amulet Flip
- 1x Ring of Xathrid
- 1x Sol Ring
- 1x Vorpal Sword
Enchantment (6)
Commander (1)
Land (36)
- 1x Access Tunnel
- 1x Arcane Lighthouse
- 1x Barren Moor
- 1x Bojuka Bog
- 1x Cabal Stronghold
- 1x Castle Locthwain
- 1x Deserted Temple
- 1x Forbidden Orchard
- 1x Reliquary Tower
- 1x Rogue's Passage
- 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 24x Swamp
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1x
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Sorcery (4)
Sideboard
Maybeboard
Instant (21)
- 1x Baleful Mastery
- 1x Blood Pact
- 1x Curtains' Call
- 1x Darkness
- 1x Deadly Rollick
- 1x Defile
- 1x Demon's Due
- 1x Devour in Shadow
- 1x Dismember
- 1x Drag to the Underworld
- 1x Entomb
- 1x Force of Despair
- 1x Hellish Rebuke
- 1x Lethal Scheme
- 1x March of Wretched Sorrow
- 1x Nurgle's Conscription
- 1x Plumb the Forbidden
- 1x Rise of the Dread Marn
- 1x Shred Memory
- 1x Snuff Out
- 1x Tendrils of Corruption
Creature (8)
- 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
- 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
- 1x Lorcan, Warlock Collector
- 1x Lord of the Forsaken
- 1x Massacre Wurm
- 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
- 1x Tormod, the Desecrator
- 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
Sorcery (3)
Enchantment (2)
"Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death." - Miyamoto Musashi
One day I was searching for a legendary samurai that could be good to build a commander deck around. Toshiro Umezawa really caught my attention. While I tried to think about what to do exactly, I decided to read some lore on him and he quickly became one of my favourite MtG characters. As a result I decided to go ahead with the deck.
I tried several things since I first built it, however this is the version I think works better with him. Plus, I'm really glad that the last few sets actually brought some new goodies that work pretty well with Toshiro, and the new rule in which commanders now go to the grave on death before going to the command zone really helped Toshiro gain some more strenght.
The deck is mainly spellslinger with plenty of removal and some utility plus some other permanents that also trigger on creature's deaths. There is also a Voltron element to it and a "I win" card.
The main combo of the deck is Forbidden Orchard + Illness in the Ranks , with this combo the tokens created with Forbidden Orchard instantly die to Illness in the Ranks. The main purpose of the combo is to trigger Toshiro Umezawa just by tapping the land without having to spend a removal spell anytime I want to cast some instant from the grave, however it also has the benefit of triggering any other permanent that cares about token deaths.
Win-cons currently available:
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Commander damage, mainly with Eternal Thirst and/or a sneaky Hatred. Ring of Xathrid and Fireshrieker help with that strategy aswell;
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Infect with Tainted Strike, plus the help of the equips mentioned before;
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Regular combat damage by simply having more creatures than the opponents due to the removal, token generation and some reanimation;
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Torment of Hailfire if the game takes too long and/or I can generate a ton of mana, Imp's Mischief helps prevent a possible counterspell;
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Aetherflux Reservoir is usually a win-con by itself, however here coupled with Bolas's Citadel and Doom Whisperer I can play my whole deck and just shoot the whole table;
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Vorpal Sword seems like a fun card I wanted to try out, not sure if it will stay. Gotta test it to decide;
Sideboard:
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Tsabo's Decree to deal with tribal decks;
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False Cure to deal with guys who depend on big healings.
Aquireboard:
My other samurai decks:
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Mono-White - Welcome to the Dojo
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Mono-Green - Musashi used 2 swords? Hold my sake!
Any suggestions to improve the deck would be welcome.
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90% Casual
Competitive
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| Date added | 6 years |
| Last updated | 1 year |
| Exclude colors | WURG |
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| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 4 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 2 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 3.39 |
| Tokens | Blood, City's Blessing, Foretell, Pest 1/1 BG, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B |
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