Assassin's Creed Shadows — Two Blades

Commanded by Naoe, Shinobi of Iga and Yasuke, Retainer of Nobunaga, this Grixis (blue/black/red) 100-Card Commander Deck is set in Japan in 1579, as the Sengoku ends badly for everyone who is not Oda Nobunaga. Two people walk the same roads for the same reasons: one goes over the roof at two in the morning and is never seen, the other walks up the road in daylight and is seen by everyone, on purpose. A game with two protagonists is not a bigger party. It is two games, and you only play one at a time.

• Dual Protagonist: only one of your two commanders can be on the battlefield. At the beginning of your turn you choose Naoe or Yasuke, and the other returns to the command zone without raising its commander tax. Cards read "While you control Naoe" or "While you control Yasuke", and some are blank on the wrong turn. Naoe's half is unblockable bodies and a hand refilled by connecting; Yasuke's is trample, forced blocks and wound counters, which keep damage from wearing off.
• Kage: a creature with Kage can't be blocked or targeted as long as you control no untapped permanents. Not a cost, a board state: you are invisible exactly when you have nothing left to answer with, and several cards tap your own permanents on purpose to get there. Eighteen cards carry or grant it.
• Two combos: The Switch at Dawn — Fujibayashi Nagato and The Kakurega Safehouse swap protagonists for free and build an army of unblockable shinobi. Nothing Left Untapped — The Kuji-In Seal and the Kunoichi of the Koka Village make infinite mana from the exact board state Kage demands.

Why Grixis

Blue is Naoe: the roof line of Kyoto, two hours on a beam above a guard post, the map of a castle learned before entering it. Black is what the country costs both of them — Iga burned with the families inside, Enryaku-ji burned with the monks inside, a rice levy that takes one man in ten. Red is Yasuke: the kanabō, the forced block, the man who does not go around. No white, because nobody here defends an order; no green, because this land is farmed, taxed and owned. Fifteen cards deal in wound counters.

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