Olympus — The Twelve

Commanded by Zeus, King of Olympus, this Jeskai (white/blue/red) 100-Card Commander Deck puts the Greek pantheon on the cards rather than in the scenery. Twenty Gods are printed in it and none of them is a creature when it arrives: each is a marble figure on a plinth until someone mortal is spent on it. Zeus arrives already carrying The Thunderbolt.

• Worship: a God with no favor counter is an inert enchantment — it can't attack, block or be targeted as a creature. Pledge a mortal (tap it; it skips your next untap step) to put a favor counter on a God, and it steps down. Neglect it and it becomes a statue again, sometimes in the middle of combat. A statue ignores creature removal and wraths, so your own Wrath of God is often one-sided; the price is paid in people, and every attack with a God is made with your defence sold off.
• The Thunderbolt: the equipped creature taps to destroy any permanent, once each turn, forever. Its bearer's controller becomes the enemy of every other God: opposing Gods may attack that player with no favor counter, as creatures. The commander lands wearing the reason the table should kill him.
• Two combos: Hestia and Ares turn two mortals into unlimited pledges and unlimited damage; Dionysus and the Erinyes do the same with the Worshippers that dead mortals leave behind.

Why Jeskai

White is the cult: the temple, the calendar, the priesthood, the hundred oxen — a maintenance contract with something that does not love you. Blue is the sky, the sea and the fact that these gods know things. Red is the lightning, the forge under the volcano, Ares and Typhon. No black: the Underworld stays out of this deck entirely. Every one of the twenty Gods carries Worship, five cards carry The Thunderbolt, and the mortals — priests, a hoplite, Cassandra, Echo, Ganymede — are fuel.

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.