5Color Sisay Legends, featuring a few Shrines

Commander / EDH Legendary Matters Multiplayer

PojkiMouse

Creature (30)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Baird, Argivian Recruiter
• 1x Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile
• 1x Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Melira, the Living Cure
• 1x Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x General Ferrous Rokiric
• 1x Ioreth of the Healing House
• 1x Loran of the Third Path
• 1x Merieke Ri Berit
• 1x Nashi, Moon's Legacy
• 1x The Peregrine Dynamo
• 1x Zimone and Dina
• 1x Dynaheir, Invoker Adept
• 1x Ertai Resurrected
• 1x Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
• 1x Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
• 1x Zur the Enchanter
• 1x Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 1x Jodah, the Unifier
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Time of Need
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast
• 1x Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
• 1x Blasphemous Act

Land (39)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Black Dragon Gate
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Citadel Gate
• 1x Cliffgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 4x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 4x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Manor Gate
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Sea Gate
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Plenty

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Relic of Legends
• 1x Heroes' Podium

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Negate
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Settle the Wreckage

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Flowering of the White Tree
• 1x Sanctum of Stone Fangs
• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Honden of Cleansing Fire
• 1x Sanctum of Calm Waters
• 1x Honden of Life's Web
• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Sanctum of All

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This is my very first commander deck, made completely from scratch, haven't playtested it yet. I gave it some thought but please let me know if I did something weird (am I trying to do too many things at once? Or too few? Relying too much on the commander?) and what is its power level in your opinon. Thanks!

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Casual commander deck built with a budget where most of the cards are < 5$. There are a few exceptions - Loran of the Third Path and Flowering of the White Tree and Reflecting Pool, cards that fit in just too well and don't exceed the budget too much.

The deck is basically a legendary tribal. It tries to build a board state where it can quickly tutor several strong cards onto battlefield, leading into a swift (though not instant) victory.

Hard Wincons:

• untapped Dynaheir, Invoker Adept + Sisay, Weatherlight Captain + WUBRG mana: search twice (using Dynaheir) for Go-Shintai of Life's Origin and then Jegantha, the Wellspring, tap Jegantha (it has haste from Dynaheir) to tutor Ioreth of the Healing House, then untap Dynaheir and Jegantha with Ioreth to tutor Sanctum of All and one more Shrine (there should be 6 Shrines on the board, 3 of them are tokens). In your next upkeep tutor more Shrines with Jegantha, Dynaheir, Ioreth and mana from lands and win by Sanctum of Stone Fangs draining 2x 20+ life (note that each tutor will add 3 Shrines as Go-Shintai + Sanctum of All give two token triggers now).

• Freed from the Real + Sanctum Weaver or Ilysian Caryatid can produce infinite mana, which can again search for all the Sanctums needed to win. Note that Zur the Enchanter can tutor the combo in 2 attacks (first Weaver then Freed from the Real) - which is the reason he is in the deck (though he can still tutor some Shrines if needed).

Fallback strategy if Dynaheir/Jegantha get killed or Sisay doesn't stick around is just to get big with legends - there are no really huge creatures but Jodah, the Unifier or Heroes' Podium can boost them significantly and Ramos, Dragon Engine also works ok with the many-colors theme.

The rest of the deck just provides various support for these wincons:

• There are some mana dorks/rocks to ensure the WUBRG is achieveable ASAP.

• There are a lot of cheap multicolored legendaries, which boost Sisay's strength so that she can tutor more powerful permanents (Dynaheir 4CMC, Jegantha 5CMC). The role of the most <4 CMC legendaries is just to boost Sisay with their colors and provide some protections to the key pieces (like Pippin, Guard of the Citadel and others) or provide other value like token fodder or interatcion.

There is not too much redundancy as Sisay can tutor the right answer if she has enough power - tutoring Ertai Resurrected, Loran of the Third Path and cards like Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard can solve most of the problems. Nashi, Moon's Legacy can dig out some of the key pieces if they get killed, which can help to rebuild.

The mana base is somewhat clunky, half of the lands are taplands. I did not want to invest hundreds of $ into the mana base. There are some dorks and mana rocks and I guess if the mana base was upgraded it might free a few slots for other things as the deck consists mainly of cards with lower CMC. Note that a good play consists usually of one dork/rock -> one multicolored legendary -> Sisay -> WUBRG tutor, where the order of dork/rock and legendary are interchangable as there are many cheap legends.

In perfect draw the deck can get infinite mana combo on turn 3, resulting in killing 2 opponents with hasted+trampled big creatures and drain 40+ life from everybody on turn 4. Having Sisay out on turn 2 and Dynaheir turn 3 and WUBRG ready on turn 4, it is possible to drain for 40+ life on turn 5. If absolutely no ramp is used and no legendaries that increase Sisay's power are played from hand but we get 1 land per turn, then with no interaction it is possible to pull off the 40+ life drain on turn 9. So realistically, trying to win by turns 6-9 can be expected.

Date added	10 months
Last updated	9 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.13
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Golem 4/4 RW, Shrine, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C