Dishonored — High Chaos, Low Chaos

Commanded by Corvo Attano, Royal Protector, this Dimir (blue/black) 100-Card Commander Deck is set in Dunwall, capital of the Empire of the Isles: a whaling city that runs on whale oil and is dying of a plague spread by rats. Corvo, bodyguard to Empress Jessamine Kaldwin, watches her murdered by Daud and her daughter Emily taken; framed for the killing, freed by the Loyalist conspiracy of the Hound Pits Pub, he receives the Mark from the Outsider — Blink, Dark Vision, Bend Time, Possession, the devouring swarm. Every target can be killed or removed without a drop of blood, and the game tracks one number for that: chaos. The cast includes Emily, the Outsider, Daud, Billie Lurk, Granny Rags, Slackjaw, Samuel, Piero Joplin, Anton Sokolov, Callista, Admiral Havelock, Hiram Burrows, High Overseer Campbell, Lady Boyle, Delilah Copperspoon and Kirin Jindosh.

• Chaos: word for word on the commander — "Whenever a creature dies, you get a chaos counter. At the beginning of your end step, if no creature died this turn, remove a chaos counter from you." You're at High Chaos with three or more chaos counters, otherwise at Low Chaos. More than fifty cards print a "Low Chaos —" line (draw, unblockable, hexproof) and/or a "High Chaos —" line (deathtouch, menace, life loss, Rat tokens).
• Both roads pay: at Low Chaos Corvo can't be blocked and draws when he connects; at High Chaos he has deathtouch and makes two Rats. Emily Kaldwin, Heir to the Throne draws each end step at Low Chaos and drains 2 from each opponent at High Chaos.
• You steer the gauge with the removal you choose: Spring Razor, Daud and The Rat Plague push it up; Sleep Dart, Choke Hold, Passage on the Stranger's Ship and Lady Boyle bring it down; Shadow Kill exiles — no body, no counter.

Why Dimir

Blue is the Mark and the silent path — Blink, Bend Time, sleep darts, a lady put on a boat rather than in the ground. Black is the bloody path — the spring razor, the rats, the plague, a city counted in corpses. No white: the Watch, the Abbey and the Regent are the law, and the law did this. Two combos close the game: Granny Rags with The Plague Pit at High Chaos drains without limit, and Samuel Beechworth with Piero Joplin makes unlimited mana without a single death for The Lord Regent's Confession or Devouring Swarm. Whale Oil Canister, The Empress's Signet, The Outsider's Rune and Piero's Spiritual Remedy ramp; Dark Vision tutors; Spring Razor, Shadow Kill and Windblast remove threats; Bend Time counters; The Rat Plague sweeps; The Hound Pits Conspiracy and The Heart draw.

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.