Día de los Muertos — The Calavera Fiesta

Commanded by Miguel O'Hara, Spider-Man 2099 Calavera, this Abzan (white/black/green) 100-Card Commander Deck takes place on the first and second of November, the night the dead come home, celebrated by the heroes of every universe. Miguel has painted a calavera over his suit and built an ofrenda on a rooftop of Nueva York 2099, with a photo from every Earth where somebody fell. The guests are the heroes who died and came back, or never came back and are remembered: Gwen Stacy as Ghost-Spider, Uncle Ben, Peter Parker, Black Widow, Miles Morales in sugar-skull face paint, Anya Corazon, Angela del Toro as White Tiger, Robbie Reyes as Ghost Rider, Deadman, Jaime Reyes as Blue Beetle, Superman back for the fiesta, Jason Todd, Death of the Endless, Swamp Thing as a marigold colossus, El Diablo, Jessica Cruz, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda as Force spirits, Goku with his Other World halo, Nana Shimura and Hellboy in a luchador mask. The party crashers are El Muerto, Nekron and a Chupacabra from the cornfield, and the folklore is all there — La Catrina, the Xoloitzcuintli guide to Mictlán, hummingbird souls, alebrijes, papel picado, pan de muerto, copal, Mixquic, Xochimilco, Janitzio and the Zócalo. A festive shiver, never horror: the skeletons smile.

• Calavera: word for word on twenty-three creatures — "This creature has each keyword ability among creature cards in your graveyard." Fifteen keywords are spread through the deck so that every card milled is a gift: flying, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, lifelink, trample, vigilance, menace, reach, haste, hexproof, indestructible, ward, persist and undying.
• The Future Remembers: the commander says the whole plan in three lines — he has calavera, other creatures you control have calavera, and whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere he draws a card, once each turn.
• The graveyard is the ofrenda: the photos stay on the altar, so the deck fills it itself — Gwen, Anya, Jaime, Robbie Reyes, Nana Shimura, Papel Picado Cutter, Marigold Petal Gatherer, Sweep the Graves at Sunset, Petals on the Doorstep and Alchemax Tower — and picks its dead with Write the Name on the Sugar Skull, Three Photos on the Altar and Pick the Photo and the Flower. Catrina's Grand Promenade, Janitzio Island Vigil, Stories at the Graveside and Calavera Parade Through the Zócalo read the mechanic.

Why Abzan

Black is the graveyard and the party crashers, green the marigold fields, the mill and the alebrijes, white the candles, the family and the remembrance. No blue, no red: at an ofrenda nobody schemes and nothing burns. Two combos close the game: The Night That Never Ends puts Xoloitzcuintli, Guide to Mictlán (undying) and La Catrina, Dame of the Promenade (persist) in your graveyard, so any creature with calavera returns forever with a free sacrifice outlet — El Muerto, The Ofrenda of Seven Tiers or The Copal Brazier — for unbounded drain with Calaverita Poet of the Plaza, unbounded mill or unbounded mana; The Marigold Spring pairs Marigold Druid of Atlixco with Curandera of the Candle Vigil for unbounded green mana into Every Name Is Spoken. The Golden Sugar Skull, Signet of the Ofrenda, Talisman of Papel Picado and Copal Smoke Signet ramp; Ask the Ancestors tutors; Guided Home by the Petals, Calavera Literaria, Sent Home Before Dawn, Chupacabra of the Cornfield and Nekron remove threats; Dawn of the Second of November sweeps; Night Vigil at Mixquic and Calaverita Clamp draw; Noche de Muertos and Come Home for One Night turn the altar over.

A complete 100-card Commander deck plus 3 tokens, tuned for Bracket 4, available as a digital print-yourself edition or a printed physical deck, and offered in 10 languages.