Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — Skill by Doing

Commanded by Henry of Skalitz, this Selesnya (green/white) 100-Card Commander Deck is set in Bohemia in 1403. A blacksmith's son watches his town burned for its silver and spends the rest of his life being told he is holding the sword wrong. Nothing here is a gift. The deck is deliberately weak when it lands — Henry is a 1/3 for four mana, the peasants are 1/1s — and by turn eight the same cards, at the same printed power and toughness, strike first, hold their ground and make mana, because each of them has done the same thing three times.

• Skill by Doing: whenever a creature attacks, blocks or is tapped for an ability, it gets a skill counter of that kind. Three of a kind and it permanently learns the matching ability: first strike, vigilance, or {T}: Add {G} or {W}. There is not a single +1/+1 counter in the deck, and nothing ever spends or removes a skill counter. Henry gives the keyword to every other creature you control and draws a card whenever one of them finishes a skill.
• Standing: you keep a separate standing with each opponent, and it only rises when you hand that player a card, a permanent or life. Your cards then read each opponent on their own — What the Village Says gives your attackers menace against the players you never paid and draws you cards off the ones you did. The interesting state is not high or low; it is uneven.
• The cast: Sir Radzig Kobyla, Sir Hanush of Leipa, Hans Capon, Captain Bernard, Father Godwin, Pebbles, Jan Žižka and Erik, Markvart's Son.

Why Selesnya

Green is the ground and the body — mud, forest, horses, nettles and hunger, where an arm only gets good at a motion by making it a few hundred times. Growth here means callus, not size. White is the hierarchy in writing: a seal, an oath, a bailiff's fine, a pillory, and the lord who signed for the smith's son to carry a sword at all. No blue, because Henry never outsmarts anyone; no red, because nothing works the first time. All thirty-five creatures carry Skill by Doing, and thirteen cards carry Standing.

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