Fairish Mr Toot (no Stax Yisan)

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Mono-Green Tap/Untap Toolbox

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Creature (44)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deep Forest Hermit
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Magus of the Order
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ravenous Slime
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Somberwald Stag
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Voice of Many
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Land (34)

• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 21x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Artifact (5)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vivien's Arkbow

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Seasons Past

Commander (1)

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PLAY IT MR. TOOT!

Welcome, Bard Folks ! Here's my list of Yisan, that also is the first commander I built in 2014. I really love the deck concept, a mono green toolbox deck, that che be fast, flexible and resilient. Here's a little explanation of this beauty.

Why "Fairish"?

I think that this build of Yisan is fair for two reasons. 1)It's very difficult to have Yisan on the battlefield on turn one. In my previous list I used to run Mana Crypt to do so, but I discovered that was simply too good. Using only 2 cards (Mana Crypt and a Forest) to have Yisan online is insane, cause you invest resources that you will use anyway, so even if your opponents remove Yisan as he comes out, you're in a good position. In multiplayer games this means becoming the archenemy very soon. So, this time my goal is to cast Yisan always on turn 2, using a bounch of mana dorks (such as Llanowar Elves or Birds of Paradise) or some mana advantage (Exploration or Wild Growth) or Chrome Mox. This can appear a minor difference, but it makes your opponents feeling less miserable. 2) I don't run any stax piece. Normally Yisan slows down opponents using cards like Trinisphere or Winter Orb. For fanny game sake, I decided not to run them.

Strategy

We want Yisan on the battlefield on turn 2. How? Well we need to keep an hand with two lands and one of this thing: Arbor Elf, Birds of Paradise, Boreal Druid, Chrome Mox, Elvish Mystic, Elvish Spirit Guide, Exploration, Fyndhorn Elves, Llanowar Elves, Sol Ring, Wild Growth. After this we have to check our opponents board state and generals. We can go for speed or strategy. If our opponents run slow decks or had a bad start, we can try to overwhelm them with Yisan speed, trying to activate him as much as possible using cards like Wirewood Symbiote or Quirion Ranger, hoiping to reach a big card:Cratherhoof Behemoth as soon as possible. Otherwise, we play with strategy, trying to counter our opponents advantage, smashing their artifact/enchantment and protecting our pieces with cards like Sylvan Safekeeper or Heroic Intervention. We win via aggro anyway.

Combo

The only combo of the deck is made possible with the interaction between Temur Sabertooth, Wirewood Symbiote, Priest of Titania/Karametra's Acolyte that produce at least 7 mana, and a 1 one mana elf. We optain infinite mana in the process and we can untap infinite creature. It seems complex to assemble, but often happens cause each combo piece it's good on its own. DON'T GO FOR THE COMBO ASAP in this build. It's an aggro deck.

Expensive cards alternatives

I know that some cards are very expensive and I use them only because I had a copy before spikes. Here's a list of good alternatives.

• Worldly Tutor --> Traverse the Ulvenwald
• Exploration --> Burgeoning --> Sakura-Tribe Scout or Skyshroud Ranger
• Craterhoof Behemoth --> End-Raze Forerunners or Pathbreaker Ibex
• Concordant Crossroads --> Lightning Greaves
• Gaea's Cradle --> Forest
• Any creature --> costumazable

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Food, Squirrel 1/1 G