Played this deck in my pod. Everyone agreed that Ezio adds another constant variable to the game. They dont want to be too close to 40 life because then they are a target, and they dont want to be close to 13 life or lower, due to Ezio's assassination. Its fun for sure
Thank you for this. I’ve got most of the cards here except for sword and Edward but that can be swapped out for tree of perdition or Ramses assassin lord. I love this set so much as a fan and it’s a nice gimmick to just have fun with
I, too, do not like shapeshifters! Flavor is the way! I dig these kind of decks and I favor them over more fine tuned decks even if I have the cards in my possession to do it. Please do more of these!
I built but not yet tested this deck. I didn’t get all the ACR cards, but I got the ones I felt would work best. I also went with Gates as a mana base and the usual suspects with land tutors and such. Wasn’t going to build it but pulling Ezio and Cover of Darkness pretty much told me this was the way. -Didn’t include Edward Kenway because I didn’t lean heavy into Pirates, although I think many Admiral Beckett Brass players may trade up to Edward -Didn’t include Connor because I couldn’t get him, and honestly my deck doesn’t lean heavy into equipment. -Just gonna say for everyone looking at this deck wanting to build it, if you like Ezio Blade of Vengeance, Achilles Davenport, and Rooftop Bypass, all of them are included in the Starter deck along with many ACR cards you would want in the deck too and if you get them from LGS, typically you can find them for $20 which will save you 8-12 bucks if you were to merely buy the singles.
Edward Kenway spiked hard in price so that’s probably more of a reason than that given if you didn’t buy early/on a lower budget. But Edward makes treasures for each tapped assassin which is the main point, so don’t even have to put in any other pirates.
Great video! I do count the ACR secret lair cards as ACR "themed" cards. Not sure if you had any suggestions or a new moxfeild link using both SLD cards?
I'm definitely considering it I just didn't have time to test them out, there's definitely some good stuff in the two drops! Might do an updates video later
@@NerdsoftheWest I would love an update! I've been trying to figure out how to make a full flavor deck work like this and still match the power level of my pod
Great video! I did something similar with LotR making a Sauron deck and a fellowship Aragorn deck. (Speaking of flavor… whenever someone put Gandalf in a Sauron deck it makes me cry on the inside 😂) I love AC, so I’ve been waiting for this set since it was announced. I went more with including commander staples. One noticeable difference with mine is I did include a couple cards from outlaws of thunder junction. Vraska joins up is great as so many of our creatures have it can have first strike, so giving them death touch is perfect and also more card draw. Also includes back in town to instantly reload after a board wipe. I also included a couple more one sided board wipes- cyc rift, kindred dominance, ruinous ultimatum along with desync should work out great in our favor. I agree that haste is sorely missing on a lot of the creatures so I also included rhythm of the wild.
Hi! Loved the video! Im a die hard AC fan, so a group of friends (which i always play Digimon CG with) gifted me a bundle and a starter pack… Needless to say i’ve never played magic but was always curious lol. The only thing i kinda know is that commander is a 1 copy per card format where you build around your main character… but im really interested in building a “standard format” (if its a thing rn) assassin tribal deck. Cant find profiles or help anywhere. :c
That's a tough one as these cards aren't "standard" legal, worth looking into what Standard is. Tbh, you could look into Pauper or Modern but at the end of the day if you're just playing with your mates then just follow the 60 card format rules of Max Four of each deck and look up what a good mana curve is and throw something together and play kitchen table just for fun
I built this deck with nothing but legendary assassins and a few outside cards that heavily skew the game in my favor trading Basim for Master Assassin Basim (Secret Lair release of Ramses, Assassin Lord) for another sneaky wincon that the table needs to look out for. I ended up taking out Excalibur and avoid detection, trading them for Whispersilk Cloak for Ezio since he’s a constant target, and the conquerors Flail to help with managing counterspells on my turn. So far, my friends hate it, they know how to generally handle it, but since it’s not a turn key deck and can get the other assassins on the board incredibly quickly, it’s a force to reckoned with.
I'm three days new but only own AC cards cause a friend gave me them. Friends are doing con and a buddy is kinda mad I want to run this deck. Was trying to run two colors but you give me hope.
@@NerdsoftheWest they have newer ones right? Any chance you might do new video on them? It's like a bundle off of Amazon. I know that makes Lil to no sense.
@NerdsoftheWest Pirate/Assassin/Vehicle. Honestly I'm looking to build it as a beatstick deck but given my relatively new status in MTG, I've got a lot to learn
Add Morophon the Boundless to reduce the cost of your assassins to one black mana with Ezio’s ability if you successfully deal damage to your opponents with Ezio or another Assassin.
Whenever there is a UB release, I keep everything in world for my commander decks. LOTR decks only have any of the LOTR cards while 40K, Fallout and Dr.Who decks stayed pure. Same went for AC, but also used cards from the AC Secret Lairs. My only slight disappointment is exactly what you said at the start that the set didn’t include many mana fixing,ramp spells, or mana rocks.
Exactly! I can't bring myself to seperate any of my Dr Who decks. It's definitely going to be harder to build purely ACR decks but there's a lot of fun commanders in here!
Building 2 different decks. One is an Etrata led assassin tribal deck. The other is a mono black "5 color" Ezio led deck that will use Roshan and Maskwood Nexus to make everything an assassin and play big nasty creatures for BB
if you want a fast insta-win combo, i suggest adding Ramses. Assassin Lord. have both him and ezio on the field, swing ezio at an opponent who will have 10 or less life after combat damage, activate his wubrg ability to insta-kill them, thus triggering Ramses's ability for cheap easy win.
First of all, I agree with you I think they put away too many sets in one year I remember they used to only have like three sets maybe a command box or something like that but now it’s crazy. I like the variety and all that stuff but come on People want to get extras of something so that way in the future we can make multiple decks. we can also use multiple formats but no they want every two months a new set and then we’re going to completely skip the sets. It’s like they want us to get at least two boxes every set.
j'ai testé ce deck impossible d'avoir des main jouable pour commencer avec cette manabase tu pose ta première carte tour 3 ou 4 avant d'avoir les bon terrain
Played this deck in my pod. Everyone agreed that Ezio adds another constant variable to the game. They dont want to be too close to 40 life because then they are a target, and they dont want to be close to 13 life or lower, due to Ezio's assassination. Its fun for sure
Heck yeah, love that! Pulled off a win with it?
@NerdsoftheWest no, got second but it performed well enough haha. Abused orzhov colors for exile type spot removal too
@@3LimbedHero they are the best colours!
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I'm so glad someone else loves flavor as much as I do. Hell I even made a super Friends Planeswalker deck but only used gate watch/good Planeswalker
Oh that's fun! Got a deck list?
I wanna make a Nicol bolas ravager evil walker deck
I built my version of this deck and it is definitely a lot of fun and very flavourful. Ive gone with max raritying it and i have had no regrets!
@@lisaparker271 heck yeah! Got a deck list?
Thank you for this. I’ve got most of the cards here except for sword and Edward but that can be swapped out for tree of perdition or Ramses assassin lord.
I love this set so much as a fan and it’s a nice gimmick to just have fun with
Heck yeah! Keen to hear how people go with an ezio deck!
I, too, do not like shapeshifters! Flavor is the way!
I dig these kind of decks and I favor them over more fine tuned decks even if I have the cards in my possession to do it. Please do more of these!
Heck yeah!
I built but not yet tested this deck. I didn’t get all the ACR cards, but I got the ones I felt would work best. I also went with Gates as a mana base and the usual suspects with land tutors and such. Wasn’t going to build it but pulling Ezio and Cover of Darkness pretty much told me this was the way.
-Didn’t include Edward Kenway because I didn’t lean heavy into Pirates, although I think many Admiral Beckett Brass players may trade up to Edward
-Didn’t include Connor because I couldn’t get him, and honestly my deck doesn’t lean heavy into equipment.
-Just gonna say for everyone looking at this deck wanting to build it, if you like Ezio Blade of Vengeance, Achilles Davenport, and Rooftop Bypass, all of them are included in the Starter deck along with many ACR cards you would want in the deck too and if you get them from LGS, typically you can find them for $20 which will save you 8-12 bucks if you were to merely buy the singles.
Edward Kenway spiked hard in price so that’s probably more of a reason than that given if you didn’t buy early/on a lower budget. But Edward makes treasures for each tapped assassin which is the main point, so don’t even have to put in any other pirates.
I'm working on an Ezio deck and love the ideas! Just gotta get Ezio now...
Same
Thank my nephew wanted this pack but idk how to build a deck so we’re just gonna use your list
I hope they print more cards to go with the set.
Would be nice, they revisited LOTR
Great video! I do count the ACR secret lair cards as ACR "themed" cards. Not sure if you had any suggestions or a new moxfeild link using both SLD cards?
I'm definitely considering it I just didn't have time to test them out, there's definitely some good stuff in the two drops! Might do an updates video later
@@NerdsoftheWest I would love an update! I've been trying to figure out how to make a full flavor deck work like this and still match the power level of my pod
@masonulves3927 honestly id just swap in Amunet and Basim and whispersilk cloak from the secret lair personally
Great video! I did something similar with LotR making a Sauron deck and a fellowship Aragorn deck. (Speaking of flavor… whenever someone put Gandalf in a Sauron deck it makes me cry on the inside 😂)
I love AC, so I’ve been waiting for this set since it was announced. I went more with including commander staples. One noticeable difference with mine is I did include a couple cards from outlaws of thunder junction. Vraska joins up is great as so many of our creatures have it can have first strike, so giving them death touch is perfect and also more card draw. Also includes back in town to instantly reload after a board wipe.
I also included a couple more one sided board wipes- cyc rift, kindred dominance, ruinous ultimatum along with desync should work out great in our favor.
I agree that haste is sorely missing on a lot of the creatures so I also included rhythm of the wild.
@@pyroblade6150 heck yeah, would love to see that list!
I love my Aragorn and the fellowship deck. Only good characters, not strong but so much fun!
Hi! Loved the video!
Im a die hard AC fan, so a group of friends (which i always play Digimon CG with) gifted me a bundle and a starter pack…
Needless to say i’ve never played magic but was always curious lol.
The only thing i kinda know is that commander is a 1 copy per card format where you build around your main character… but im really interested in building a “standard format” (if its a thing rn) assassin tribal deck. Cant find profiles or help anywhere. :c
That's a tough one as these cards aren't "standard" legal, worth looking into what Standard is.
Tbh, you could look into Pauper or Modern but at the end of the day if you're just playing with your mates then just follow the 60 card format rules of Max Four of each deck and look up what a good mana curve is and throw something together and play kitchen table just for fun
@@NerdsoftheWest Thanks a lot!! 🙏🙏🙏
I built this deck with nothing but legendary assassins and a few outside cards that heavily skew the game in my favor trading Basim for Master Assassin Basim (Secret Lair release of Ramses, Assassin Lord) for another sneaky wincon that the table needs to look out for. I ended up taking out Excalibur and avoid detection, trading them for Whispersilk Cloak for Ezio since he’s a constant target, and the conquerors Flail to help with managing counterspells on my turn. So far, my friends hate it, they know how to generally handle it, but since it’s not a turn key deck and can get the other assassins on the board incredibly quickly, it’s a force to reckoned with.
Sounds great TBH!
I'm three days new but only own AC cards cause a friend gave me them. Friends are doing con and a buddy is kinda mad I want to run this deck. Was trying to run two colors but you give me hope.
It's definitely a harder one to run and needs some extra support but it is a blast!
@@NerdsoftheWest they have newer ones right? Any chance you might do new video on them? It's like a bundle off of Amazon. I know that makes Lil to no sense.
Have started building my Edward commander deck, but the Ezio WUBRG style seems so cool!
Been brewing Edward up, what direction are you going in? Any favourite cards?
@NerdsoftheWest Pirate/Assassin/Vehicle. Honestly I'm looking to build it as a beatstick deck but given my relatively new status in MTG, I've got a lot to learn
This video helped a lot thank you
Add Morophon the Boundless to reduce the cost of your assassins to one black mana with Ezio’s ability if you successfully deal damage to your opponents with Ezio or another Assassin.
I want to build this deck so much!!!!!
Whenever there is a UB release, I keep everything in world for my commander decks. LOTR decks only have any of the LOTR cards while 40K, Fallout and Dr.Who decks stayed pure. Same went for AC, but also used cards from the AC Secret Lairs.
My only slight disappointment is exactly what you said at the start that the set didn’t include many mana fixing,ramp spells, or mana rocks.
Exactly! I can't bring myself to seperate any of my Dr Who decks.
It's definitely going to be harder to build purely ACR decks but there's a lot of fun commanders in here!
Sorry but I’m confused if ezio is my commander then by the rules I can only have black mana type cards?
Colour Identity takes into account all Pips on the card, not just those in the casting cost.
Because of his ability all colours can be used
Building 2 different decks. One is an Etrata led assassin tribal deck. The other is a mono black "5 color" Ezio led deck that will use Roshan and Maskwood Nexus to make everything an assassin and play big nasty creatures for BB
Sounds fun!
if you want a fast insta-win combo, i suggest adding Ramses. Assassin Lord. have both him and ezio on the field, swing ezio at an opponent who will have 10 or less life after combat damage, activate his wubrg ability to insta-kill them, thus triggering Ramses's ability for cheap easy win.
Oh 100% that's gotta be in there if you're building for strength and not favour!
@@NerdsoftheWest I made a flavor ezio deck myself! this combo just happened to come to mind on my way home from my lgs
You can add tree of perdition to give a player 13 health, only need 3 damage to trigger ezio then ramses as well
@rayn_dubz I'm always up for more tree of perdition
will you add the reprints from the SLD ?
Considered it but didn't have time to play test it
First of all, I agree with you I think they put away too many sets in one year I remember they used to only have like three sets maybe a command box or something like that but now it’s crazy. I like the variety and all that stuff but come on People want to get extras of something so that way in the future we can make multiple decks. we can also use multiple formats but no they want every two months a new set and then we’re going to completely skip the sets. It’s like they want us to get at least two boxes every set.
j'ai testé ce deck impossible d'avoir des main jouable pour commencer avec cette manabase tu pose ta première carte tour 3 ou 4 avant d'avoir les bon terrain