Black Myth: Wukong — Seventy-Two Transformations

Commanded by The Destined One, this Gruul (red/green) 100-Card Commander Deck is about wearing the dead. A monkey walks a road already littered with the bodies of everything that walked it before him — demon kings, celestial officers, a bear who wanted a robe — and he does not raise them, rob them or keep them. He learns the shape, wears it for as long as the fight lasts, and is a monkey again, holding a stick. Every name comes from Journey to the West: Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, Guanyin, Erlang Shen, the Bull King, Princess Iron Fan.

• Seventy-Two Transformations: for its cost, a creature becomes a copy of any creature card in any graveyard until end of turn, keeping its own name, its counters and this ability, so it can change again the same turn into something else that died. The card never leaves the graveyard. Twenty-six cards carry it, and The Destined One makes every copy bigger and unblockable.
• The Staff: eight Equipment pump the bearer for {X} once per turn, and for {0} they go back to your hand — back in the ear. The deck has no counterspells; you protect the weapon by putting it away, at instant speed, in response to anything.
• Two combos: Seventy-Two Times Over — The Destined One, Sun Wukong and The Wine Gourd of the Immortals make an arbitrarily large, unblockable monkey and as much green mana as you like. Back in the Ear — Zhu Bajie makes The Nine-Toothed Rake free, and every recast deals 2 damage.

Why Gruul

Red is the temperament and the trick: the ruined peach banquet, the kicked-over furnace, and the stolen shape itself, a borrowed identity that ends with the turn. Green is the mountain and the body, what he goes back to being when the turn is over. Black is missing, and that is the point: the deck never takes a card out of a graveyard, never reanimates, never exiles. It only looks. Twenty-six cards mill to fill the shelves, and every removal spell is a fight or a burn — whatever Gruul kills is a costume it can wear next turn.

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.