Magic: The Gathering - Ezio Auditore Da Firenze Commander Deck Guide

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Ezio Auditore da Firenze is one of the many cards released in Magic: The Gathering's Assassin's Creed set, a part of Magic's Universes Beyond product line that brings other franchises into the world of Magic. The set features a ton of Assassin cards, with Ezio Auditore da Firenze taking the slot of the five-color Commander available to play all the Assassins in one deck.

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Ezio as a commander makes it very easy to cast all of your Assassin spells cheaply, allowing you to quickly flood the battlefield so that you can become a quick threat in combat. If you're looking for a way to play the most Assassin's Creed cards in one deck, an Ezio Auditore da Firenze Commander deck is what you'll want.

Decklist

Commander: Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Achilles Davenport

Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Arno Dorian

Aya of Alexandria

Basim Ibn Ishaq

Bayek of Siwa

Brotherhood Spy

Changeling Outcast

Desmond Miles

Edward Kenway

Elves of Deep Shadow

Elvish Mystic

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Ezio, Blade of Vengeance

Ezio, Brash Novice

Fyndhorn Elves

Havi, the All-Father

Layla Hassan

Lydia Frye

Mari, the Killing Quill

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Ramses, Assassin Lord

Realmwalker

Tree of Perdition

Virtus the Veiled

Vraska, the Silencer

Back in Town

Blasphemous Act

Cultivate

Eagle Vision

Farseek

Nature's Lore

Overpowering Attack

Raise the Palisade

Rampant Growth

Restart Sequence

Three Visits

Viewpoint Synchronization

Assassin's Trophy

Beast Within

Chaos Warp

Desynchronization

Escape Detection

Path to Exile

Swords to Plowshares

Arcane Signet

Brotherhood Regalia

Chromatic Lantern

Commander's Sphere

Fellwar Stone

Haystack

Herald's Horn

Lightning Greaves

Sol Ring

Talisman of Dominance

Talisman of Hierarchy

Talisman of Resilience

Vanquisher's Banner

Whispersilk Cloak

Kindred Discovery

Origin of the Hidden Ones

Rooftop Bypass

Shared Animosity

The Revelations of Ezio

Access Tunnel

Brotherhood Headquarters

Canopy Vista

Cinder Glade

Clifftop Retreat

Command Tower

Dragonskull Summit

Exotic Orchard

x2 Forest

Glacial Fortress

Hinterland Harbor

x1 Island

Isolated Chapel

Mines of Moria

x2 Mountain

Path of Ancestry

x1 Plains

Prairie Stream

Rogue's Passage

Rootbound Crag

Secluded Courtyard

Smoldering Marsh

Sunken Hollow

Sunpetal Grove

x3 Swamp

The Black Gate

The World Tree

Thran Quarry

Unclaimed Territory

Woodland Cemetery

This sample decklist consists of 27 creatures, 12 sorceries, seven instants, 14 artifacts, five enchantments, and 34 lands. Outside of a small handful of creatures (mostly mana dorks), every creature included in the decklist is an Assassin.

Key Cards

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

The commander of the deck, Ezio Auditore da Firenze is one of the most important cards in the deck. Since your entire deck is (mostly) made up of Assassins, just one Assassin dealing damage gives all your Assassinsfreerunning, which lets you cast them for just two black mana.

While the effect of making a player lose the game by paying one mana of every color is a nice shortcut, since it requires your opponent to have ten or less life, most of the time you're better off saving that mana for spells since they'll be defeated soon anyways.

Ezio only costs two mana to cast, and with a solid statline and ability, turning on freerunning is very easy. You can start dumping your expensive Assassin spells onto the battlefield early, getting ahead of your opponents if Ezio sticks to the battlefield.

Only an Assassin needs to deal combat damage to be able to cast for the two black mana freerunning cost, meaning Ezio can sit back on the battlefield to keep himself safe in combat while still taking advantage of his passive ability.

Ezio, Blade Of Vengeance

Ezio has not one, not two, but three separate cards, each depicting a different point of his life. Ezio, Blade of Vengeancemakes up one of the deck's best sources of card draw. It turns any Assassin dealing combat damage to a player into a card draw.

This fills your hand with more Assassin creatures that you can then cast for their freerunning cost. Thiseffect doesn't trigger once, meaning that every Assassin who dealt combat damage while out on the battlefield will draw a card for each one that hit an opponent.

Mari, The Killing Quill

Mari, the Killing Quillmakes all of your Assassins more threatening by giving them all deathtouch and the ability to draw extra cards. While the effect relating to hit counters is nice (and shuts down graveyard decks), the deathtouch passive is the real attraction.

Mari, the Killing Quill is easy to cast, and with deathtouch, your opponents will be less likely to block your Assassins out of fear of losing their own important creatures. This makes it much easier to turn on freerunning.

Edward Kenway

An Ezio Auditore da Firenze deck is all five colors, which means it may become awkward to have all of your colors available. Edward Kenway helps resolve this issue by generating a ton of Treasure tokens.

Since your entire deck is primarily made up of Assassin creatures, all of them that are tapped after combat will give you a Treasure token. This makes it much easier to ramp out your creatures later, or have mana available for interaction on your opponents' turns.

When it comes back to your turn, once freerunning gets active, these Treasure tokens make it possible to easily play out your entire hand of creatures.

Raise The Palisade

Every Commander deck should pack a board wipe or two to make sure you can handle a board that is getting out of hand that you won't be able to play through. Raise The Palisadeis the best option, as most of the time it is a one-sided board wipe.

Raise the Palisade returns all creatures that don't share a type with the named creature type. You will always be naming Assassins, which will keep most of your creatures on the battlefield. Assassins aren't a very commonly played creature type, so outside of someone else playing an Assassin-based deck, Raise the Palisade will get rid of most creatures.

Shared Animosity

Shared Animosity is important as it makes all your Assassins much scarier to block, and makes it easier to drain your opponents' life. Since you're going to attack with (almost) exclusively Assassins, each one will give the others a +1/+0 stat boost.

Many Assassins have various keyword abilities such as menace, which makes them not only harder to block, but more likely to take out your opponents, especially if their life total hits 10 for Ezio Auditore da Firenze to make them lose the game with its triggered ability.

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How To Play The Deck

Ezio Auditore de Firenze decks are very aggressive and want to flood the battlefield with creatures to get out of hand before any of your opponents stabilize. Thanks to freerunning, it becomes trivial, especially since Ezio can hit the battlefield as early as turn two.

Ramp cards are an important part of the deck due to it being five colors. You always want to have access to all your colors so you can cast any spell that may find itself in your hand.

Freerunning is a key part of the deck's strategy, so making sure Ezio sticks to the battlefield is vital. Cards like Whispersilk Cloak and Brotherhood Regalia help to keep it protected from removal, as well as unblockable to make it easy to make the ability live for the turn.

Many of the cards in the deckcare about dealing combat damage or interacting with historic permanents (which most cards are since legendary and artifact cards are considered such). These together make the deck very synergistic and let itfunction when Ezio Auditore de Firenze is off the battlefield.

While combat is the main way the deck wins with boosts from cards like Shared Animosity, there's another alternate win condition withRamses, Assassin Lord. When a player loses the game, so long as they were attacked by an Assassin, Ramses will cause you to win the game. This combined with Ezio's ability to make an opponent with ten or less life can lead to wins much quicker.

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