Mass Effect — The Suicide Mission

Commanded by Commander Shepard, this Esper (white/blue/black) 100-Card Commander Deck is about a two-year recruitment drive that ends in one trip through a relay nobody has come back from. You pick people up, fix what is wrong with them, and take exactly two of them with you every time you leave the ship.

• The Squad: at the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to two creatures. Only they can attack, and each gets +1/+1 per loyalty counter on it; everyone else is aboard. It is a limit before it is an advantage — a wide board still swings with two. The payback is earned by staying home: twenty-six creatures carry an Aboard ability that banks a loyalty counter at your end step and does a job. A creature left behind four turns is not idle; it is a bomb.
• The Suicide Mission: assign a role — Tech Specialist, Biotic, Leader, Escort or Fire Team — to each legendary creature you control. Any creature given a role not printed on it dies. Every legend prints its roles, so casualties are your fault. Harbinger, Sovereign, Saren Arterius and The Illusive Man have no role at all: four of your best bodies, guaranteed to die the moment you run it.
• The crew: Garrus Vakarian, Tali'Zorah, Liara T'Soni, Urdnot Wrex, Mordin Solus, Thane Krios, Legion, Grunt.

Why Esper

White is the Alliance: rank, the N7 designation, a crew manifest, a squad as a thing with rules. Blue is the technology that thinks: omni-tools, a geth platform, an unshackled AI, a Prothean beacon. Black is Cerberus and what you agree to pay: a corpse rebuilt with a chip inside. Forty-seven cards put on or read loyalty counters.

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.