POPER187: Mana Crypt is one of the most powerful ramp cards in the format. It allows you to play Captain Sisay on turn two. A turn two Sisay usually means the deck snowballs very quickly. The life loss from Mana Crypt is irrelevant as you have 40 starting life. That's 13 turns where you lost the flip each turn.

I'm aware of what the card does and can do but getting her out really early is nice but she just puts the legendary cards in your hand you still have to pull the rest of the mana to play the rest. I'm not telling him to get rid of it I was saying that I would take them out and I gave him a place to find a lot of good artifacts. its his deck.

PartyJ: Thought you might be interested in hearing this - I'm in an EDH group on Facebook, and when someone asked for help on a Sisay deck, within ten seconds someone linked to this as the optimal example :)

What's the Facebook group?

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So any Sisay players jazzed up about those new sneak peak cards for Aether Revolt: I am more excited about the Planar Bridge than the Paradox Engine but they both have a lot of potential.

Hope the Planar Bridge is cheap since most players are probably not going to want 8 cost tutoring + battlefield placement.

A card that requires as much as 14 mana before it does anything at all is extremely niche, and probably rather bad. It's potentially better than Planar Portal or Ring of Three Wishes, but i don't think the effect will see play outside of EDH. And even in EDH, i expect it to be a casual card, not one for a deck like this one.

I've pulled that kindof mana pretty quick in my Sisay deck, Ive had several games now where I pull Multani, Maro-Sorcerer & a hasted Selvala, Heart of the Wilds I know for me mana base hasn't been so much of a problem as finding a way to tutor & plop my non-legendary on to the battlefield... I could certainly afford to replace Yisan, the Wanderer Bard & it can be tutored out unlike Planar Portal or Ring of Three Wishes.... Same thing goes for Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx..Gaea's Cradle as far as ridiculous Sisay mana pooping engines go.

That card is going to be a fantastic way to tutor & play Seedborn Muse & really put a squeeze on the gonads

Also excited to use Planar Bridge to make a viable planeswalker plopper in my Sisay deck (if I wanted to go in the Planeswalker direction some more)

If any deck can abuse Planar Portal and Paradox Engine it's Sisay.

My personal opinion: Paradox Engine 1000% deserves a slot here, but Planar Portal does not. Consider:

This deck's playing 12 nonlands that tap for mana - they essentially give free mana with Paradox Engine out. Since Sisay is a tutor that requires tapping, every time you cast a spell you can tutor a legendary. That means you have several combos, but most notably Captain Sisay+Gilded Lotus+Paradox Engine would allow you to cast every legendary permanent in your deck with CMC 3 or less.

It also fetches/casts Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, which is the second combo. With Selvala, Heart of the Wilds+Captain Sisay+Paradox Engine, you can literally cast every card in your deck (especially if you re-add Reki, the History of Kamigawa to the list) by "stepping" upwards in power. More notably...EVERY CARD IN THIS INFINITE COMBO IS TUTORABLE WITH YOUR COMMANDER.

Plus, you know, even if you don't combo, getting an extra tutor with Sisay for every spell you cast is absurd :D

However, I think Planar Bridge is less good here. Almost everything you want to cast is legendary and already tutorable with Sisay. And only two cards in your deck are above 8 mana (the activation cost) - if you want something, you can just find it and hardcast it.

If you face a lot of control I could see it I guess (since the PB targets can't be countered, and it grabs at instant speed) but I think that's enough of a corner case to be useless here.

Yeah, I spose Planar Bridge makes more sense in mine, I play a small amount of non-legendary cards that are in there because they are very solid if I draw in to them. If I already have Avacyn out I like to plop down one of my many non-tutorable mass-hexproof cards like Archetype of Endurance or Privileged Position or the 2nd half of a busted combo like; Worldslayer for my Avacyn.... & as I mentioned Seedborn Muse Then I spend the next upkeep Sisay-searching Yeva, Nature's Herald -- Then you are running around with a mock prophet of Kruphix

You'd be surprised at how powerful an Eye of Ugin backing those Eldrazi's would be. Just remember not to count it as a land!.

Daedalus19876 and you can finish that combo by grabbing Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Inventors' Fair, cracking it for a Aetherflux Reservoir and with enough storm count win right there without any fuss. I find the relationship with the Fair and Crucible of Worlds clowny.

As someone's who began EDH with Sisay I think you're mad for not running Saffi Eriksdotter.

runSaffi Eriksdotter

Check out Hua Tuo, Honored Physician if you want to have reliable graveyard manipulation.

You know what I just realized? You don't have Land Tax in this list. Has it ever been under consideration?

Because 1) your deck is somewhat mana-hungry, and 2) you're already playing Scroll Rack so why not put in the most broken draw combo in all of magic? :D

I do acknowledge that its power is somewhat lessened given that you only have 6 basics in the deck. But I still think it's worth considering.

Also! Many congratulations on reaching +300 upvotes - only the 10th EDH deck ever to do so!

(I misread, you have 10 basics. My point is the same, though.)

I have a Sisay deck that is about 75% similar to this. I run more spot removal in mine, but that is as much a meta decision as anything else. This is a great deck. The best Sisay deck I've ever seen. You do a beautiful job of taking the toolbox aspect that Sisay allows but still having a clear and preferred Plan A to victory. Leaving yourself Plan B and Plan C if it all goes to crap.

I would strongly urge you to run Illusionist's Bracers. It is absolutely nuts and is almost always my tutor target with Enlightened Tutor. Maybe a just a twinge more stax elements to slow the table down as you also ramp lightning fast into your endgame?

I find that with Paradox Engine & the 2 Selvala out I can basically put down my entire library in 1 turn if I want. It is ridiculously powerful & not even all that slow to happen. Also if someone breaks up the combo Paradox Engine or one of the Selvala are still strong cards in their own rights

I just can't believe he's choosing to skip the Land Tax while already running Azusa, Lost but Seeking and Stone-Seeder Hierophant ~which incidently is pretty good with a Terrain Generator~

Unrelated, but you probably should consider Thalia's Lancers.

One of your combos has Command Beacon but it's not on your decklist. and wouldn't Quicksilver Amulet be good in here or even Blightsteel colossus?

Isn't running Honor-Worn Shaku. Insanity.

the_earl_0f_grey: Land Tax isn't really that good here. Having green means that typically you'll be the ramp player. On top of that, you have very few ways to tutor into it and you don't want to waste things like Enlightened Tutor on Land Tax when you could use it to get Umbral Mantle which outright wins games. While it's cute playing parfait, most of the time you'd rather it be something else.

Honor-Worn Shaku falls into the same category as Land Tax. Occasionally it's ok, but most of the time it's just slow. A 3 cmc rock that only taps ofr colourless is too slow, and while you can potentially get some additional mana from it, cards like Talisman of Unity are better as they can help you ramp into Sisay.

Wynh: Quicksilver Amulet used to be in the deck but was cut in place of more ramp. Ultimately, having a solid ramp package is better off than relying on a few "cheat into play" cards as you will hit the ramp more conistently and ramp menas you have more mana for non-creature spells, or consecutive creature spells.

Blightsteel Colossus is ok in more relaxed metas, but here just runs into the issue that it's not tutorable and expensive to cast. While yes, it demands an answer, so do cards like Elesh Norn which have just as much impact on the game but come down 5 turns earlier and synergise better with the rest of the deck.

have you thought about Saffi Eriksdotter and Blasting Station with Sun Titan you can deal infinite damage

I have just posted a new update at the top of this page.

Knowing that I was pretty absent many, many weeks I felt that an update would be the least I could do.

Have fun reading and I would like to thank anyone who took the time to write a comment in here. Keep up the good work!