Sengoku — The Oath of Vassals

Commanded by Oda Nobunaga, Tenka Fubu, this Mardu (white/black/red) 100-Card Commander Deck is not a samurai film. It is the accounting of Japan's warring century: a muster roll, a rice register, a hostage handed over as security, and a general who changes sides at noon because the arithmetic changed at eleven. Nobunaga's power is the number of creatures sworn to him, so every army that walks his way makes him harder to displace.

• Vassals: as a creature enters it is sworn to a legendary creature you control — its Lord. When the Lord dies, the creature goes to the player who controls the legend with the greatest power. Nobody chooses and nobody pays: a Lord falls and an entire army changes hands at once. It is more dangerous to you than to anyone, which is why the deck spends as many cards guarding its Lords as killing everyone else's — and why Nōhime, who catches the sworn when a legend dies, is its second most important card.
• The Castle: a Castle land enters with five wall counters, and while one remains you can't be attacked by more than one creature each combat. Every attacker tears a course of stone off, whether it gets through or not. The deck's draw engines spend those counters too: your defence and your cards are the same pile of stones.
• Two combos: Thirteen Days (Akechi Mitsuhide, Oda Nobunaga and The Rice Storehouse) and Odawara Was Not Stormed, It Was Bought (Hōjō Ujiyasu, Kuroda Kanbei and Ishida Mitsunari on four Castles).

Why Mardu

White is the institution, and in this century that means paperwork: court ranks, the sworn oath, the land survey. Black is the security deposit — hostages, poison, the Iga men paid to walk into a keep at night. Red is the campaign season, three thousand matchlocks at Nagashino. Twenty-one cards print Vassals word for word, four Castles hold the walls, and twenty-one legendary creatures compete to be the strongest Lord.

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.