Ancient Egypt — The Weighing of the Heart

Commanded by Anubis, Guardian of the Scales, this Orzhov (white/black) 100-Card Commander Deck treats death the way Egypt did: as a procedure, with a schedule, a paid workforce and no appeal. Seventy days of salt and linen for the body, one afternoon before forty-two judges for the heart. Anubis does not decide anything. He reads the beam.

• The Weighing of the Heart: whenever any creature dies, on any battlefield, it is weighed. Power 2 or less and the card is exiled to the Field of Reeds, where it pays its owner 1 life every upkeep. Power 3 or greater and Ammit devours it, and its owner gets a 3/3 black Beast. It is a law of the table, not a privilege: it pays your opponents too. What it costs them is the card — a light heart leaves the graveyard for good. So the deck shaves power at the last moment: The Feather of Maat pushes an enemy creature into the Reeds, The Heart Scarab pushes yours into Ammit's mouth, where it stays in reach.
• Mummification: put an embalm counter on a creature card in your graveyard; at four counters the real card returns as a 4/4 black Zombie with every ability it was printed with. Not the Embalm keyword — nothing is exiled, no token is made, and it takes four turns.
• Two combos: Seventy Days in an Afternoon (Ipy, Chief of Mysteries and Sobek, Lord of the Nile, closed out by Sekhmet) and Ammit Eats Her Own Children (Anubis, The Four Sons of Horus and a single Beast token that replaces itself for ever).

Why Orzhov

White is the administration of death: the Hall of Two Truths, the negative confession recited as a checklist, the scribes who write the verdict down. Black is the body and the trade around it: the embalmer's tent, four organs in four jars, Seth in the red land and Ammit waiting beside the scales. Thirteen cards carry the Weighing word for word, sixteen carry Mummification, and twenty-three read the Field of Reeds.

A complete 100-card Commander deck plus 5 tokens, tuned for Bracket 4, available as a digital print-yourself edition or a printed physical deck, and offered in 10 languages.