Severance — Innie and Outie

Commanded by Mark S., Macrodata Refiner, this Azorius (white/blue) 100-Card Commander Deck is about a surgical procedure that splits one employee into two people who share a body, a badge and nothing else. The innie works a shift he cannot remember leaving; the outie takes the pay and has never met him. Nobody is tortured. There is a handbook, a wellness session and a waffle party.

• Severed: each creature has an innie ability as long as it is your turn and an outie ability as long as it isn't, and an ability that triggered under one half can't be activated under the other. Your attackers wake up on your turn; your blockers, ward and instant-speed answers wake up on everyone else's. Half your board is always asleep, and it is never the half you want. Only five cards reintegrate both halves, and most charge life or a body.
• Macrodata Refinement: look at the top five cards and file each face down into one of four bins: Woe draws two, Frolic makes two Employees and untaps everything you control, Dread taps and stuns two enemy creatures, Malice makes each opponent sacrifice a creature and lose 2 life. You choose the bins, so five cards into one bin refines it every time.
• Two combos: Please Try to Enjoy Each Number Equally (The Macrodata Console and Kier Eagan) loops Woe and Frolic; The Break Room (with Mr. Graner and Seth Milchick) repeats Malice until the library runs out.

Why Azorius

White is Lumon: order maintained by ritual, performed by people who have forgotten what it was for. Blue is the cut itself and the work nobody explains. Twenty-two creatures carry Severed and fifteen cards refine word for word.

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.