Captain Tsubasa — The Duo

Commanded by the partners Olivier Atton and Thomas Price — Tsubasa Ozora and Taro Misaki — this Boros (red/white) 100-Card Commander Deck is built on two things a football manga believes and a real match does not: that a shot can be a named, repeatable technique with a setup you either have or don't, and that nobody in this sport does anything alone. The cast is the one French audiences grew up with: Ben Becker, Mark Landers, Bruce Harper, Julian Ross, Ed Warner, Philippe Callahan, the Derrick Brothers, Patty Gatsby and Roberto Hongo.

• Special Shot: sixteen instants can be cast only during combat, and only if the board matches a setup printed on the card — a tapped creature for Eagle Shot, an opposing blocker for The Overhead Drive, an unblocked attacker for Tiger Shot, two untapped partners with different names for Twin Shot and Skylab Hurricane. The setup is part of the cost; without it the card stays in your hand. A Special Shot is not a trick you hold up, it is something you build during your own combat.
• Duo: twenty-four of the twenty-six creatures have Duo, and Duo spells cost {3} less if you control two untapped creatures with different names that have it. A wall of identical tokens is worth nothing, and a board that has already attacked is worth nothing until someone untaps it — which is why this deck untaps its own creatures mid-combat. Mark Landers is the exception on purpose: he can never have Duo and is paid for attacking alone.
• The Golden Combi: Thomas Price, The Golden Combi and Twin Shot make a 4-damage shot that costs {R}{W}, refunds {R}{W} and returns to your hand, again and again inside your own combat.

Why Boros

Red is the shot: the named techniques, the thirty-five yards, the boy training on a beach at five in the morning. White is the pair: the untap, the second man, the coach's two-touch rule, the goalkeeper who starts the counter-attack. No green, because nothing here is talent left to grow on its own; everything was drilled. There is no ball to fight over and no goal counter — this deck kills with damage, from a board it has to arrange first. Sixteen Special Shots, and seventeen more cards read them.

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