Kill Bill — Five Point Palm

Commanded by The Bride, this Rakdos (black/red) 100-Card Commander Deck is about a threat that needs nothing from you. She touches a creature five times and walks away. Nothing happens, until its owner decides to play the game. There is no list here and no order of targets: she hits whatever is moving in the room she is standing in.

• The Five Point Palm: put a heart counter on target creature. When its controller casts a spell, attacks with a creature or activates an ability, that creature is destroyed and can't be regenerated. It has no clock and never kills on its own; a marked creature can still block. The trigger sits on the opponent's side of the table, and the only counterplay is to do nothing. Eight cards apply it, twenty-two read heart counters, and Pai Mei makes them permanent.
• The Crazy 88: eight 1/1 black Human Assassins named Crazy 88, never one at a time. Six cards make them, from O-Ren Ishii to The House of Blue Leaves, and Sofie Fatale, Eighty-Eight to One and Eighty-Eight Against One read the headcount.
• The other jaw of the vice: Bill never learned the technique. He punishes the opposite — any opponent who didn't cast a spell this turn loses 3 life at their end step — and Bill's Standing Order forces their creatures to attack each combat. Doing nothing costs life; doing something costs the creature.

Why Rakdos

Black is the trade: the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad as a payroll, with an employer, code names, an accountant, a lawyer in Tokyo and a coffin bought under someone else's name. Red is the four minutes it takes to undo eight years of it: a chapel rehearsal at Two Pines, a room in Tokyo with one staircase, Okinawa steel and a fight in fresh snow. Nothing grows back and nothing is a plan.

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.