
Saskia the Unyielding
Saskia the Unyielding Commander Deck
This is a four-color Equipment voltron-swarm deck. It floods the board with living weapon Germs and other bodies, then makes every hit count twice: Saskia copies all combat damage dealt to a player onto one chosen player. Cheap equip costs, instant-speed equipping and Equipment tutors turn each equipped attacker into a big, evasive or double-striking threat. The damage it connects with gets funneled into the Saskia target so one opponent goes down at a time. How it wins: Several pumped, double-striking or evasive equipped attackers connect, and Saskia redirects that damage again onto the chosen player, with the half-life cut and life-loss Equipment speeding up each kill. Key roles: - Germ army: Living weapon Equipment and the effect that gives all Equipment living weapon each arrive as both a body and a buff, so the deck has many attackers for Saskia to multiply. Some also bring evasion, lifelink or extra value when they attack (Ekthi, Contaminator Priest, Batterskull, Colossal Dreadmask). - Artifact-count scaling: Several Equipment grow with the number of artifacts the deck controls, which the signets, artifact lands and piles of Equipment keep high (Nettlecyst, Cranial Ram). - Equip enablers: These effects drop equip costs to zero, allow equipping at instant speed, flash Equipment in, or move gear to whichever attacker is unblocked or survives, making huge equip costs affordable (Puresteel Paladin, Forge Anew, Halvar, God of Battle). - Damage multipliers: Double strike for equipped creatures, the half-life cut, attack triggers that cost life, and pump effects make each connection lethal-sized, and Saskia doubles it onto her chosen player (Halvar, God of Battle, Scytheclaw, Drossclaw). - Equipment tutors and draw: Tutors find the right Equipment, and cast, enter or attack triggers draw cards, keeping a steady supply of gear and bodies (Stoneforge Mystic, Sram, Senior Edificer, Tymna the Weaver). - Kaldra package: The three Kaldra pieces combine into an indestructible exiling Avatar, alongside Kaldra Compleat as a standalone version of the same threat (Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, Kaldra Compleat).
Saskia the Unyielding decklist
- Akiri, Fearless Voyager
- Anguished Unmaking
- Arcane Signet
- Arid Mesa
- Assassin's Trophy
- Batterbone
- Batterskull
- Birds of Paradise
- Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
- Blasphemous Act
- Blood Crypt
- Bloodstained Mire
- Bonehoard
- Boros Signet
- Chishiro, the Shattered Blade
- Colossal Dreadmask
- Command Tower
- Cranial Ram
- Deflecting Swat
- Demonic Tutor
- Drossclaw
- Drossforge Bridge
- Ekthi, Contaminator Priest
- Exotic Orchard
- Farseek
- Fighter Class
- Flawless Maneuver
- Flayer Husk
- 4× Forest
- Forge Anew
- Godless Shrine
- Goldmire Bridge
- Golgari Signet
- Halvar, God of Battle
- Helm of Kaldra
- Heroic Intervention
- Ignoble Hierarch
- Indatha Triome
- Jeska's Will
- Kaldra Compleat
- Kessig Wolf Run
- Lashwrithe
- Loran of the Third Path
- Mana Confluence
- Mandibular Kite
- Mortarpod
- Mountain
- Nature's Lore
- Necropouncer
- Nettlecyst
- Nomad Outpost
- Open the Armory
- Orzhov Signet
- Overgrown Tomb
- 3× Plains
- Puresteel Paladin
- Reflecting Pool
- Return of the Wildspeaker
- Rishkar's Expertise
- Rogue's Passage
- Rustvale Bridge
- Sacred Foundry
- Savai Triome
- Scytheclaw
- Shield of Kaldra
- Sickleslicer
- Sigarda's Aid
- Skinwing
- Slagwoods Bridge
- Sol Ring
- Sram, Senior Edificer
- Steelshaper's Gift
- Stomping Ground
- Stoneforge Mystic
- Strandwalker
- Swamp
- Sword of Kaldra
- Swords to Plowshares
- Tangleweave Armor
- Teferi's Protection
- Temple Garden
- Three Visits
- Tymna the Weaver
- Vandalblast
- Verdant Catacombs
- Windswept Heath
- Wooded Foothills
- Ziatora's Proving Ground
- Skullclamp
- Boros Charm
- Generous Gift
- Chaos Warp
- Beast Within
- Bruenor Battlehammer