Yisan, the Wanderer Bard EDH

Commander / EDH

FrankTheFoot

Creature (39)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thought-Knot Seer
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Whisperwood Elemental
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 26x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Artifact (11)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

Commander (1)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Hall of Gemstone
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation

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Creature (15)

• 1x Ant Queen
• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Glissa Sunseeker
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Skyshroud Ranger
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Treefolk Harbinger
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald

Artifact (6)

• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trinisphere

Instant (5)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Vitalize
• 1x Warping Wail
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Quest for Renewal

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Genesis Wave

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

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This is a high-tier Yisan, the Wanderer Bard deck. It can consistently win on turn 4 or 5 without any disruption from your opponents. The deck wants to ensure that you cast Yisan, the Wanderer Bard on turn 2 by making sure you can ramp on turn 1. If you get a god hand, he can be cast on turn one, but that can pretty much only happen with Mana Crypt. You want to get Yisan, the Wanderer Bard up to 5 counters as soon as possible. This will get you Seedborn Muse and will accelerate you very quickly. You should be able to drop Craterhoof Behemoth on your next turn after you get Seedborn Muse. You have enough protection in the deck to protect you from spot removal/board wipes (Sylvan Safekeeper, Temur Sabertooth, Whisperwood Elemental). If there is a player at the table that you are worried about that may run board wipes and removal, you can target them with your Artifact/Land Destruction. The deck also runs some stax effects like Thorn of Amethyst, Winter Orb, Sphere of Resistance, and Hall of Gemstone. None of these cards are going to hurt you nearly as much as anyone else because you run so many creatures and many of them produce you mana. This deck can produce infinite mana as well with Umbral Mantle/Illusionist's Bracers. Once you've done that, you can usually finish the game on the spot depending on the situation. Temur Sabertooth helps you out here. He can retrigger any of your ETB effects an infinite number of times. If you have ways to untap Yisan, the Wanderer Bard, you can get a lot of activations out of him with the infinite mana. You can go with Temur Sabertooth for your four-drop and Acidic Slime for the five-drop to destroy all lands. The creatures you fetch with Yisan, the Wanderer Bard can vary depending on the cards you start with in hand. Turn one will usually be Sakura-Tribe Scout or Sylvan Safekeeper if you want to be conservative. Sakura-Tribe Scout synergizes extremely well with Scryb Ranger as your two-drop. You can use the two to untap one of your Forests every opponent's turn. This can lead to extra Yisan activations. If you start with a hand that is heavy in elves, you might want to go with Quirion Ranger first followed up by Priest of Titania for lots of mana. Ultimately, your win condition will almost always be Craterhoof Behemoth. If he somehow ends up in your gravehard, you can fetch him with Eternal Witness or Greenwarden of Murasa. If he somehow gets exiled, you'll have a harder time winning.

Infinite Mana Combos:

Umbral Mantle+Priest of Titania/Elvish Archdruid+3 other elves

Umbral Mantle+Karametra's Acolyte+4 total devotion

Illusionist's Bracers+Seeker of Skybreak+any creature that taps for mana

Rings of Brighthearth+Seeker of Skybreak+Priest of Titania/Elvish Archdruid+2 other elves

Rings of Brighthearth+Seeker of Skybreak+Karametra's Acolyte+3 total devotion

Temur Sabertooth+Concordant Crossroads/Thousand-Year Elixer+Priest of Titania+4 other elves

Temur Sabertooth+Concordant Crossroads/Thousand-Year Elixer+Elvish Archdruid+5 other elves

Temur Sabertooth+Concordant Crossroads/Thousand-Year Elixer+Karametra's Acolyte+7 total devotion

Umbral Mantle+Illusionist's Bracers+Arbor Elf+Wild Growth/Utopia Sprawl (lol)

Interesting Interactions/Tricks

-You can do a double activation with Yisan, the Wanderer Bard by putting his ability on the stack, untapping him with another ability, and then reactivating Yisan, the Wanderer Bard. This will get you two creatures of the same CMC since it is part of the cost to put the counter on Yisan, the Wanderer Bard. You'll usually do this to skip to five since many of the four drops are situational. You can also commonly do this to get to seven since both of your seven-drops are stellar.

-Nullmage Shepherd and Seedborn Muse are very great together because they'll negate all of your opponents' Artifact ramp.

-Quirion Ranger and Wirewood Symbiote are also very crazy together. You can get 3 total untaps in one turn with both of them on the board. Use Quirion Ranger, then use Wirewood Symbiote to bounce Quirion Ranger, recast Quirion Ranger and reuse it's ability.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elephant 3-3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G
Folders	Commander / EDH, EDH - Others, Future, Decks to Remember