Sherlock Holmes — Eliminate the Impossible

Commanded by partners Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, this Azorius (white/blue) 100-Card Commander Deck is a deck about subtraction. Other detectives collect clues; this one takes possibilities away, one card at a time, out of the opponents' hands. It stays on the Conan Doyle canon: London in 1890, gaslight, hansom cabs, telegrams and a chemistry bench in a first-floor sitting room.

• Eliminate the Impossible: look at an opponent's hand and exile a card from it face down. It is eliminated for the rest of the game; you may look at it whenever you like, and its owner never touches it again. Holmes does it every time he attacks, gets +1/+0 per eliminated card and can't be blocked once four are gone; Watson gains 1 life and a +1/+1 counter each time. Twenty-one cards carry it and twenty-six more read the count.
• The Irregulars: 1/1 street children who can't attack, each able to tap and look at an opponent's hand, the top two cards of a library, or every card a player has hidden face down. They are the eyes; Holmes is the hand.
• The cast: Mrs. Hudson, Wiggins, Mycroft, Inspector Lestrade, Irene Adler, Professor Moriarty, Colonel Sebastian Moran, Charles Augustus Milverton and the Hound of the Baskervilles.

Why Azorius

White is procedure: Scotland Yard, the warrant, Mycroft's Whitehall, the rule of the Diogenes Club. Elimination is a procedural act — a possibility struck off a list by someone with the authority to strike it. Blue is observation and the index: the monograph on tobacco ash, the plaster cast of a footprint, the disguise, and a professor of mathematics who never holds the knife. No black, because even the murderers here kill by arrangement. The endgame is not a board wipe; it is a table with empty hands whose remaining options you already know.

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.