Victory or Seppuku

Commander / EDH Jank Mono-Black Spellslinger Theme/Gimmick Toolbox Voltron

Tarzunga

Instant (24)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Dark Dabbling
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Defile
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Drag to the Underworld
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grim Return
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Sudden Death
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Withering Boon
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Eternal Thirst
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Illness in the Ranks
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Creature (19)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Draugr Necromancer
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 27x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Blood on the Snow
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Professor Onyx

Sideboard (2)

• 1x False Cure
• 1x Tsabo's Decree

Maybeboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Death Wind
• 1x Eat to Extinction
• 1x Howl from Beyond
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Professor's Warning
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Sudden Edict

Artifact (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Creature (2)

• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Foulmire Knight

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Sadistic Glee
• 1x Shadows of the Past

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"Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death." - Miyamoto Musashi

One day I was searching for a legendary samurai that could be good to build a commander deck around. Toshiro Umezawa really caught my attention. While I tried to think about what to do exactly, I decided to read some lore on him and he quickly became one of my favourite MtG characters. As a result I decided to go ahead with the deck.

I tried several things since I first built it, however this is the version I think works better with him. Plus, I'm really glad that the last few sets actually brought some new goodies that work pretty well with Toshiro, and the new rule in which commanders now go to the grave on death before going to the command zone really helped Toshiro gain some more strenght.

The deck is mainly spellslinger with plenty of removal and some utility plus some other permanents that also trigger on creature's deaths. There is also a Voltron element to it and a "I win" card.

The main combo of the deck is Forbidden Orchard + Illness in the Ranks , with this combo the tokens created with Forbidden Orchard instantly die to Illness in the Ranks . The main purpose of the combo is to trigger Toshiro Umezawa just by tapping the land without having to spend a removal spell anytime I want to cast some instant from the grave, however it also has the benefit of triggering any other permanent that cares about token deaths.

Win-cons currently available:

• Commander damage, mainly with Eternal Thirst and/or a sneaky Hatred ;

• Infect with Tainted Strike ;

• Regular combat damage by simply having more creatures than the opponents due to the removal, token generation and some reanimation;

• Exsanguinate if the game takes too long and/or I can generate a ton of mana, Imp's Mischief helps prevent a possible counterspell;

Sideboard:

• Tsabo's Decree to deal with tribal decks;

• False Cure to deal with guys who depend on big healings.

Aquireboard:

• Volrath's Stronghold

• Boseiju, Who Shelters All

• Cabal Coffers

• Damnation

• Vampiric Tutor

My other samurai decks:

• Mono-White - Welcome to the Dojo

• Mono-Green - Musashi used 2 swords? Hold my sake!

Any suggestions to improve the deck would be welcome.

Top Ranked	Achieved #39 position overall 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Exclude colors	WURG
Key combos	Forbidden Orchard + Illness in the Ranks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 2 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.78
Tokens	2/2 Zombie, 1/1 Spirit, City's Blessing
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