Halo — Finish the Fight

Commanded by the partners Master Chief, John-117 and Cortana, this Azorius (white/blue) 100-Card Commander Deck is about a soldier who cannot be killed quickly and an intelligence who knows exactly how long she has left. The war is lost when the game starts. What the Chief has that nobody else has is a shield that comes back.

• Shields N: prevent the next N damage dealt to the creature each turn; at your upkeep, if it wasn't dealt damage since your last turn, its shields return to N. Once damage gets through, the shield is down and stays down until the table leaves it alone for a full round. You can't pay for the recharge — ignoring you is how you heal. Twenty-three cards print it; the Chief has Shields 4, draws and grows on every restore, and Cortana drains each opponent for 1 whenever any shield comes back.
• The Ring: {5}, tap and sacrifice the land: choose a creature type and exile every creature of it, on every battlefield. Yours are not exempt. Three legendary lands carry it — Installation 04, Installation 05 and The Ark. Name Human and your own Spartans go; name Sangheili and the Arbiter goes. It exiles a species, not a board.
• Two combos: Wake Me When You Need Me (Kelly-087, Jorge-052 and Cortana) drains the table on endless restores at instant speed; One Final Effort (The Index, Installation 04, Commander Miranda Keyes) fires a ring again and again and wins on the triggers.

Why Azorius

White is the UNSC as a chain of command: an admiral who signs the order to glass his own city, Marines holding a line with two magazines. Blue is Cortana and the Forerunners — the archive, the Index, and knowledge the species does not want. Eight cards are Spartans; Dr. Halsey gives them all Shields 2.

A complete 100-card Commander deck plus 5 tokens, tuned for Bracket 4, available as a digital print-yourself edition or a printed physical deck, and offered in 10 languages.