Vikings — The Raid

Commanded by Ragnar Lothbrok, this Gruul (red/green) 100-Card Commander Deck is the history, not the myth: farmers on thin soil with too many sons, a shallow boat with a square sail, and a monastery at Lindisfarne in June 793 with silver and no wall. It is an extraction business with a sailing season. Not one god appears in it, and not one horned helmet.

• The Raid: at the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent who wasn't the target of your last raid. Every creature you control attacks that player if able. If they are dealt combat damage, you search their library for a card, exile it in your hold and may play it. It cannot split and it cannot repeat, so the deck walks around the table and the player you just robbed gets one turn to take his revenge. Each successful raid is a tutor on somebody else's deck.
• The Saga of the Dead: when a creature you control dies while attacking, it is exiled in your saga, and your attackers get +1/+0 for each card there. A creature killed by a sweeper or a chump block earns nothing. The losses of one raid make every later raid bigger, without a cap.
• The cast: Lagertha, Björn Ironside, Ivar the Boneless, Rollo, Harald Fairhair, Erik the Red, Leif Erikson, Freydís Eiríksdóttir and Egill Skallagrímsson.

Why Gruul

Red is the sailing season: an open boat on the North Sea, a burned farmstead, the decision to leave in April knowing some boats do not come back. Green is the land that caused all of it — eight acres that will not feed four sons, and a raid paid out in more soil. Sixteen cards print the Raid word for word, ten print the Saga of the Dead, and twenty-one read the saga.

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.