Hokuto no Ken — The Seven Stars

Commanded by Kenshiro, Successor of Hokuto, this Rakdos (black/red) 100-Card Commander Deck is set in a desert where the roads and pylons still stand and the harvest is gone. It is about a school of killing that hands its name to one man only, and about the seven scars in the shape of the Big Dipper that he collects on the way — seven kinds of deed, done once each, never needed twice.

• The Seven Stars: at your end step you earn a star counter for each deed done that turn whose star you lack — Slay, Mercy, Break, Silence, Tribute, Pierce, Scorch: a kill, a life gain, an artifact broken, a discard, a forced sacrifice, an unblocked hit, a land taken away. You can never earn the same star twice. Killing four creatures in four turns is one star; doing seven unlike things is seven. The deck is seven small toolboxes, which is why Vandalblast, Wasteland and a lifegain package share the ninety-nine. Kenshiro gets +1/+0 per star and scores two deeds each time he connects.
• Successor: if you control two or more creatures with Successor, they fight at your end step. Only one school survives. Eleven Hokuto men carry it — Kenshiro, Raoh, Toki, Jagi, Ryuken, Kaioh, Hyoh, Shachi and three disciples — while the Nanto fighters (Shin, Rei, Souther, Juda, Shu, Falco) are safe to develop. Raoh must attack, and he will fight your commander at your own end step. At seven stars, The Seven Scars settles the succession and the brothers finally stand together.

Why Rakdos

Black is the school: a nine-hundred-year-old assassination art, a chart of pressure points copied by hand, a north run by a king who calls taking government. Red is the ground — the burnt earth, the studded gangs, the wells fought over at gunpoint. The reason is also mechanical: the seven deeds need seven kinds of interaction, and black and red own all seven cheaply. Nine cards carry the Seven Stars, and twenty-one in all are built on your star count.

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.