Ramses, Assassin Lord

Ramses is a deceptively powerful commander that turns your Assassins into a two-pronged threat: they deal combat damage with deathtouch (efficient removal on a stick), and they create a secret win condition whenever an opponent is eliminated by any source after being hit by your Assassins that turn. Your core gameplan is to build a compact Assassin tribal deck that generates evasive attackers and redundant threats. You'll want cheap Assassins with evasion or lords to pump your team, creating a steady pressure that forces opponents into bad blocks or leaves them vulnerable to other players' lethal damage — which then triggers your win condition.

The deck plays a tempo-focused midrange game: early Assassins establish the board, Ramses amplifies them and acts as a 4/4 eater of larger threats thanks to deathtouch, and you'll layer in control elements (bounce, removal, hand disruption) to keep opponents off-balance while you swing. Since the win condition triggers on *any* player's elimination in a turn where you attacked with Assassins, you benefit from multiplayer politics and table dynamics — you don't have to deal the final blow yourself. Cards like Bitterblossom and token generators turn Ramses's anthem into a recursive army, while evasive Assassins like Notorious Throng or Fallen Shinobi slip through defenses.

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