This deck is an Assassin graveyard-to-combat engine. It fills the graveyard with Assassin creature cards through looting, discard outlets, sacrifice effects and tutoring into the graveyard. Each time Altaïr attacks, it exiles one of those cards with a memory counter and then makes a tapped and attacking token copy of every memory-countered creature in exile, so the attacking army grows with every combat. Those copies re-trigger their enter-the-battlefield removal and card draw each time, and attack-trigger doublers and permanent-token effects turn the commander into a steadily growing army of repeatable Assassin value. As well as uther ways to have memory counters put on said exiled creatures but also a way to return non creature spells to my hand or deck How it wins: Altaïr attacks behind evasion and protection with a growing squad of copied Assassins, pumped by anthem and double-strike effects, and extra combats and lethal-damage Assassins finish opponents off. And a way to keep getting altaïr back from the comand zone or grave Key roles: - Graveyard stocking: Discard outlets, looting, sacrifice-to-draw spells and graveyard tutoring put Assassin creature cards where Altaïr can exile them with memory counters, while madness and disguise give extra value along the way. (Buried Alive, Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion) - Memory engine amplifiers: Trigger doublers for attacking creatures make Altaïr exile two cards and create two sets of copies per attack. A legend-rule and exile-protection effect lets Altaïr's tokens stay on the battlefield instead of leaving at end of combat. A memory-counter artifact adds legendary cards to the exile pool and turns Altaïr into a copy of one of them. (Isshin, Two Heavens as One, Windcrag Siege, The Master, Multiplied) - Repeatable ETB Assassins: Assassins with enter-the-battlefield removal, damage or card draw become recurring effects every combat once their cards carry memory counters, picking off blockers and refilling the hand. (Nekrataal, Murderous Redcap, Undercity Eliminator) - Tribal unification and anthems: Type-changing effects make every creature an Assassin, opening the whole creature base to Altaïr. Assassin lords and historic-creature payoffs then boost damage with power bonuses, double strike and extra tokens. (Roshan, Hidden Magister, Arno Dorian, Bayek of Siwa) - Evasion and protection for the attacker: Unblockable and fear effects, along with hexproof, shroud and ward equipment, keep Altaïr alive and connecting, which also turns on combat-damage payoffs and cheap freerunning costs. (Brotherhood Regalia, Whispersilk Cloak, Cover of Darkness) - Combat-damage payoffs and extra combats: Damage triggers draw cards, make Treasure, return historic cards and cut life totals in half. Freerunning spells reward a successful hit with cheap reanimation and an additional combat that fires Altaïr's trigger again. (Overpowering Attack, Unstoppable Slasher, Mari, the Killing Quill)

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Boros Signet
• Brotherhood Regalia
• Haystack
• Key to the City
• Lightning Greaves
• Orzhov Signet
• Sol Ring
• Swiftfoot Boots
• The Animus
• The Spear of Leonidas
• Whispersilk Cloak
• Battlefield Forge
• Brotherhood Headquarters
• Caves of Koilos
• Clifftop Retreat
• Command Tower
• Dragonskull Summit
• Evolving Wilds
• Exotic Orchard
• Isolated Chapel
• 5× Mountain
• Nomad Outpost
• Path of Ancestry
• 5× Plains
• Rogue's Passage
• Shattered Landscape
• Smoldering Marsh
• 7× Swamp
• Temple of Malice
• Temple of Silence
• Temple of Triumph
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Vault of the Archangel
• Arbaaz Mir
• Arno Dorian
• Aya of Alexandria
• Bayek of Siwa
• Big Game Hunter
• Desmond Miles
• Isshin, Two Heavens as One
• Kassandra, Eagle Bearer
• Layla Hassan
• Mari, the Killing Quill
• Massacre Girl, Known Killer
• Merciless Harlequin
• Murderous Redcap
• Nekrataal
• Olivia, Opulent Outlaw
• Queen Marchesa
• Raffine's Silencer
• Roshan, Hidden Magister
• Ruthless Lawbringer
• Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
• Shay Cormac
• The Master, Multiplied
• Undercity Eliminator
• Unscrupulous Contractor
• Unstoppable Slasher
• Conspiracy
• Cover of Darkness
• Etchings of the Chosen
• Reconnaissance
• Windcrag Siege
• Big Score
• Chain Assassination
• Deadly Dispute
• Demand Answers
• Mortify
• Path to Exile
• Swords to Plowshares
• Terminate
• Thrill of Possibility
• Blasphemous Act
• Buried Alive
• Cathartic Reunion
• Faithless Looting
• Mythos of Snapdax
• Overpowering Attack
• Restart Sequence
• Ruinous Ultimatum
• Swamp
• Mirror Box
• Kindle the Inner Flame
• Chandra, Flameshaper