Saint Seiya — Knights of the Zodiac

Commanded by Seiya, Knight of Pegasus, this Boros (red/white) 100-Card Commander Deck follows eighty-eight orphans shipped to eighty-eight training grounds and told to come back wearing armour or not at all. Ten came back. They are outclassed in every fight they have. What they do that nobody else bothers to do is watch: a Gold Knight fires the technique that ended every fight of his career, the boy goes down, gets up, and the second time it does not land.

• The Same Technique Never Works Twice: thirty-one cards carry it. Whenever a spell or ability deals damage to a creature — any creature, anyone's spell — that creature gains protection from spells and abilities with that name for the rest of the game. It is a law of the table, and your own removal is the first casualty: Galaxian Explosion clears a board once, and the survivors are immune to it forever. Combat damage is neither a spell nor an ability, so fists always work. Immunity counters record every technique survived; Seiya grows with them, and The Grand Pope destroys anything that carries one.
• The Cloth: twelve Equipment — five Bronze Cloths, six Gold Cloths and a counterfeit Black Cloth. If the wearer would be destroyed, the Cloth is destroyed instead and leaves a Cloth Fragment. It prevents no damage, because damage is what teaches. It comes back only by Repair: 3 life, never mana, and 3 more for each repair that turn. Mu cuts the price; Saori Kido pays it at instant speed.
• The Twelve Houses: the mana base is the Sanctuary itself, twelve Houses from Aries to Pisces, each a Boros land tied to the Knight who guards it.

Why Boros

White is the Sanctuary: eighty-eight numbered ranks, a Pope whose word is not appealed, twelve Houses crossed in twelve hours, an institution running on its own authority thirteen years after it stopped being right. Red is the cosmos, what burns in a boy's chest after every other resource has run out — named techniques, direct damage, haste, combat. All twelve Gold Knights are in the deck, and sixteen cards read immunity counters.

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.