Consider running a Dryad Arbor so you can Green Sun's Zenith for 0 as ramp.

Skyshroud Claim might be a good one to try out as well.

Utopia Tree or Quirion Elves could easily become an Arbor Elf,

Finally, try using two square brackets around your cards in your description. That will actually link them.

Thanks for the feedback lemmingllama :)

I was having some issues with the page taking a while to update so I kept accidentally overwriting my changes yesterday, I'll update the description again and see if it sticks.

Dryad Arbor seems pretty sweet, I'll see if I can pick one up.

I only run 12 lands with the Forest subtype, although that is probably enough to safely run Arbor Elf (especially if I slot in a Dryad Arbor). I'll give it a go (possibly along with Boreal Druid as well).

I play Skyshroud Claim in the less competitive variant of this deck. I'm currently not playing it here for a few reasons:

• Gaddock Teeg is really important in competitive, and he makes it uncastable (although I do play a few other uncastable with him spells!)
• My 4 mana play will almost always be Captain Sisay (who I will always have available to cast at that point), Hokori, Dust Drinker and/or Linvala, Keeper of Silence.

In saying that, my deck does lack ways to rapidly ramp towards its high end if Gaea's Cradle gets destroyed or all the mana dorks die, so perhaps I should be playing the 4 mana ramp spells. Its hard to know when I have nobody with competitive decks to play against. I will see if I can fit it in.

I played in the Badcave Dick.Dec tournament this afternoon. I had a top 8 finish, winning versus Animar, Soul of Elements, Numot, the Devastator and Krenko, Mob Boss, followed by losses versus Edric, Spymaster of Trest and Karador, Ghost Chieftan.

I am happy with how my deck did - I was not expecting the 3-0 start. I don't think I played the next two games terribly well. The Edric deck was in my opinion superior to mine, I think the Karador matchup would have been winnable had I played it better.

I will type up a tournament report this weekend detailing my thoughts and what needs to change in the competitive decklist.

Hi,

nice seeing you are still playing a Captain Sisay build. And now even in a competitive environment. I am trying the same with somewhat better results than in my beginning :) Captain Sisay has the answers... (EDH / Commander)

Perhaps we can learn from eachothers build, ideas and results :) Bookmarked your deck.

Keep up the captain!

Thanks for the kind words PartyJ :)

Your deck is quite different from when I last saw it - Interesting to see how we've approached making our decks more competitive in quite different ways!

Rinsewind I like your build! +1 from me. I wanted to know if I could get some feedback on my deck Captain my Captain, Lead us to Victory! (HELP PLZ).

Thanks Profet93!

Yay, more Sisay players! I'd be happy to give you some feedback on your list :DIts getting a bit late here tonight, but I'll post my thoughts tomorrow morning.Do you use it mostly in 1v1 or multiplayer?

Rinsewind, I have only played it once last night in a 5 player free for all game. I won, but only because wiped the board of everything (including lands), but I had my Avacyn, Angel of Hope to save me

What is your take on Traverse the Ulvenwald. I play an agrro Sisay build and I'm doubting if I should run it.

PartyJ, I feel like there are so many other cards that are better than that. I like screwing over people's general's so Darksteel Mutation or Song of the Dryads fit well.

PartyJ - Its a dead card without delirium. I wouldn't want to have it stuck in my hand while I try to get that fourth card type in my graveyard - It might only cost , but delirium isn't something I feel safe relying on.

G/W already has access to Worldly Tutor, Sylvan Tutor and Eladamri's Call, all of which are better by virtue of not requiring delirium and are mostly instants. If thats not enough there's also Altar of Bone, Green Sun's Zenith, Time of Need, Natural Order, Survival of the Fittest, Fierce Empath, Chord of Calling and Fauna Shaman - I'd rather be running most of those. I don't think Traverse the Ulvenwald can compete, at least in G/W. It may be more reliable in other colour combinations (B/U maybe? if you can reliably get creature/sorcery/instant/land in your graveyard)

There could be a case made for subbing a land out for it and treating it as an ETB tapped land with possible upside.... Thinking about it like that makes it sound better... hmmmmm

I shouldn't be looking at cards after 11pm - I just noticed that with delirium it also gets nonbasic lands. That certainly makes it more interesting, as it isn't just a creature tutor :P

I think if it fits in either of our decks it'd fit better in yours PartyJ - You run 11 cards that could result in a land in your graveyard, compared to my 4 (and I traded away my Wooded Foothills, so I actually only have 3 currently). I think that gives you far better odds of getting delirium than me. I'll keep an eye on my graveyard in my matches from now on. Tomorrow I'll have a go at mathing out the odds of drawing an instant, a sorcery and a land I can sac (presuming I'll naturally end up with a creature as type 4 in the graveyard seems reasonable).

Well I still have doubts as it isn't as independant as you might want it to be. The circumstances have to be right. Choices ... choices...

Sylvan Tutor won me a game recently because I could tutor for a mana dork leading into an early and one-sided Armageddon, which is a line of play Traverse the Ulvenwald won't be online fast enough to achieve.

I think if the thought of holding onto a tutor for later in the game is something that is palatable, Traverse is good, otherwise if you want to burn tutors often and early, then there's better tutors out there.

Got some cool new cards to put in my deck, along with triple sleeving time (uugh unsleeving 200 times then sleeving 300 times was not fun!). I think I need to get new outer sleeves, they're very worn and some are splitting :(

Out:

• Sphere of Resistance (doesn't seem strong enough as a stax piece I can't easily tutor for - Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is more relevant and consistently available)
• Mirri's Guile - I actually like this a lot as a harder to hate out (albeit slightly worse) D top, but it can go for now
• Priest of Titania - I want my mana dorks that cost 2 to tap for white as well
• Rest in Peace - I've yet to encounter a competitive graveyard based deck, so this can go to sideboard
• Forest

In:

• Survival of the Fittest - Had to buylist a lot for this, but totally worth it
• Umezawa's Jitte
• Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• Savannah (finally, a tournament legal one!)

I hate Eldrazi, but I do need some bigger beef - I win most of my games via opponent concession by locking them down, if I am unable to stax my opponent out then my beatdown strategy normally isn't particularly rapid. They also allow for some good options regarding cycling cards back into my library with Survival of the Fittest.

Archetype of Endurance?

Trying out a few new cards I wanted to try and recommended by cEDH:

In:

• 1x Nature's Revolt

Living Plane + Linvala, Keeper of Silence or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite is one of my most powerful win conditions. Although Nature's Revolt costs more and makes them larger, I only run one enchantment tutor, so having a redundant effect for this is highly desirable.

• 1x Trinisphere

I don't actually face that many combo decks that I feel this would be super relevant against, but I've been told its amazing, so I'm willing to give it a go.

• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

cEDH members recommended this too - Yisan does seem very strong when I'm running Quirion Ranger and Scryb Ranger. I also have a relevant creature at every mana cost up to 11.

Out:

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Avacyn is nice versus wrath effects, but Gaddock Teeg plus stax shuts down most of them, and by the time I can afford to play Avacyn I should have a lock in place. That said, she is a potent vigilance beater when Static Orb is in play, and I am not certain she'll be outside of the mainboard for long.

• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons

Sigarda is truly the black sheep of the powerpuff angels - The other two get to head my other W/x decks, whereas Sigarda gets relegated to being cut from Sisay. Sigarda is one of my best outs in the face of heavy spot removal (or my Teeg is dead and opponent's only out vs Iona is All Is Dust), but I think I can safely expect to not have to face that.

• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

I typically have other things to do on turn 2 with 3 mana, and if I can get Sisay out fast enough this isn't necessary. I actually can't remember the last time I drew it and used it in a relevant fashion - If Sisay is online I'm spending all my mana on other better things, and if she isn't then I want to be playing her instead of this. If she isn't and I can't play her, this is pretty close to being a dead card.

Cicjose - Thanks for the suggestion :)

I used to run Archetype of Endurance, and it is a very good defensive card. The reason it isn't in the deck anymore is that once I have the mana for it I am almost always tutoring up and playing more proactive threats - Cards like Elesh Norn, Vorinclex and Iona have larger impacts on every board (rather than only matchups where my cards will be targetted) and I can tutor them up much easier.

That said, it is probably a good sideboard option when versus spot removal heavy decks. I don't tend to come up against them that often, but they're certainly out there.

Sigarda, Heron's Grace is a great card for your deck. I had some matchups where I played her recently. Besides she protects Sisay from being targeted, you also get the ability to 'fuel' your Gaea's Cradle with chump blockers which provide a huge boost to your mana pool.

I would strongly advise you to give this angel a try ;-)

Been a while since I played the deck in a serious matchup (so busy lately, not much time for MtG =( ), will be checking later this week to ensure the decklist is up to date with the physical version. I probably need to consider some updates to the deck too!

It hasn't been entirely quiet though - I've got several new exciting Captain Sisay things (6 of them in fact!) although none of them are changes to the composition of the deck.

The most exciting one is this "oversized commander card". Not an altered art either, this one's the original:

(click for bigger view) (Interesting that the background changed a bit between this and the final painting / card art)

PartyJ - Thought you might be interested in seeing this :)

Hi Rinsewind, long time no see :)

I am in the same 'boat' as you; I haven't played Sisay in ages. Although I tried to keep up with her progressions a little bit. But I am still miles behind. You gave me a headsup to finally deploy her back to the front soon...

The art is beautiful! I wish I could hang one on my wall one day.

Do you still play EDH from time to time? I went pretty casual the last few months, so I am looking forward to Sisay again.... Athough getting her back in shape will bring some sweat to the table.

Good to hear from you again captain!

Good to see you're still around PartyJ :-)

EDH is still my favourite format and I play it when I can get enough friends together. I like that EDH decks typically age pretty well even if you don't keep them up to date (one reason Brawl doesn't really appeal to me!), although I do think falling behind on local meta knowledge has made Sisay harder to pull off successfully in competitive matches.

I've been mostly playing and tweaking other lower power decks (I've got a fairly new second Weatherlight Captain EDH deck in Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain), since Sisay has a bit of a reputation and draws a lot of hate so I try to gauge how competitive the table is before bringing her out.

I believe that Urza's Ruinous Blast is too slow for our cEDH decks.

I would consider Shalai, Voice of Plenty as a potential new card as well.

I have updated my list to account for the bannings, adding a few more locks and a new infinite mana combo option.

Based on my goldfishing so far I think I need to add Finale of Devastation and Chord of Calling to help increase the ability to fetch the non-legendary parts of the infinite mana combo lines (as going via Yisan is quite slow). I suspect that I will also need to tune the stax quite a bit once I find a group to play with regularly.

There's basically no interaction with flash decks in here, mostly because I've actually never seen one in my playing the deck. I do intend to try and do something to address that once I've done more testing with my attempts to slot in a new proactive gameplan.