Twenty Thousand Leagues — The Nautilus

Commanded by Captain Nemo, Mobilis in Mobili, this Simic (green/blue) 100-Card Commander Deck is built on the bargain of Verne's 1870 novel: a man builds a submarine with his own money, disappears under the sea with a crew that speaks a language he invented, and lives off the water without owing anybody anything. Professor Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land are aboard as guests who are not allowed to leave.

• Aboard: crew the Nautilus with a creature and it goes inside. A creature aboard is not on the battlefield — nothing can target it, damage it, destroy it, exile it or make it be sacrificed. It also can't block or trigger, and when the Nautilus leaves the battlefield every creature aboard goes to the graveyard. It is the best shelter in the game and a single point of failure; Heroic Intervention and the Nautilus's own dive are in the deck because the Vehicle is its throat.
• The Maelstrom: at the beginning of each end step, the creature with the greatest power on the battlefield is drawn under and exiled until the end of the next turn. It hits whoever owns it. A tax on being ahead, and the Colossal Poulpe is built to come back from it bigger every time.
• Two combos: The Hatch Never Stops Turning (The Nautilus, The Gold of Vigo Bay and The Silence of the Crew) and Seven Arms and a Beak (The Colossal Poulpe, the Maelstrom and The Spur of the Nautilus).

Why Simic

Blue is the engineering and the secrecy: sodium cells drawn out of sea water, an electric rifle, twelve thousand volumes and a chart no admiralty has seen. Green is the sea itself and everything in it: a nine-metre octopus, a pod of sperm whales, a submarine forest. Twenty-nine cards carry or read Aboard, six print the Maelstrom, and ten of the creatures are animals of the deep.

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.