Captain Sisay's Engine Chain Extravaganza

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive GW (Selesnya) Hatebears Multiplayer

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Creature (30)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Seton, Krosan Protector
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Land Grant
• 1x Ravages of War
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gaea's CradleGC
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 3x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (9)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Commander (1)

Artifact (20)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox DiamondGC
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skyship Weatherlight
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x TrinisphereGC
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Artifact (4)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x TrinisphereGC

Creature (3)

• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Sanctum Prelate

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Captain Sisay-Paradox Engine combo.

Sisay's Four Steps to Success

Step 1: Play Sisay.

Step 2: Reach enough mana to cast Paradox Engine and any other spell. Typically this requires at least one mana from nonland sources, like Arbor Elf or Avacyn's Pilgrim , Basalt Monolith , or something (as you can fetch the second and third, Mox Amber and Mox Opal respectively, using Sisay). As of Mox Amber 's printing, you no longer need any nonland mana sources, you can combo straight from playing Paradox Engine, assuming you have the mana. Paradox Engine -> Mox Amber (float 1 mana) -> Mox Opal gives enough mana to tutor and then cast Seton, Krosan Protector . You can then go get Rishkar, Peema Renegade who can tap thanks to Seton's ability, then play any other spells to generate extra mana to cast Kamahl, Fist of Krosa for 5 mana per untap.

Note: If you have Ethersworn Canonist or similar effect out, you will have needed to tutor Miren, the Moaning Well to sacrifice them on your preceding opponent's end step so you can cast an additional spell before attempting to go off with Paradox Engine. These cards are hell for Storm, Food Chain, Gitrog, Doomsday, Ad Nauseam, etc., to fight through, so they typically buy you enough turns against those kinds of decks that you wouldn't have otherwise had.

Step 3: ????

Step 4: Profit: Get Paradox Engine and cast another spell to untap your non-land mana producers, then use Sisay to tutor out other legendary cards. With each spell played, you untap your non-land mana producing permanents and can move on to ending the game via the main two combo lines.

Combo Lines

1) Establish the main mana production line of: Mox Amber -> Mox Opal -> Seton, Krosan Protector -> Rishkar, Peema Renegade -> Skyship Weatherlight . You should also tutor Bow of Nylea and any other 3 mana or less legendary card still left in the library (Kataki, Yisan, Hope) as this will let you generate some extra mana for when you activate Skyship Weatherlight.

Put every single mana rock under the Skyship (this means Mox Diamond , Chrome Mox , Mana Vault , Mana Crypt , Sol Ring , and Grim Monolith . Get Mox Diamond and Chrome Mox even if you have nothing else in your hand since they're essentially 0: Untap all nonland mana producers you control), and put Qasali Pridemage and Sensei's Divining Top under the Weatherlight, as well. By generating some extra mana up above, you will have 2-3 mana in your pool, which is enough to cast any one of these spells no matter which you put into your hand from activating Weatherlight, which means you'll get to play them all and have a sizable amount of extra mana-- assuming you only had the 4 main legendary mana producers above when you start this and nothing else, you would get 16 mana per spell cast. After playing all of the spells, tap the Top to draw a card, use Pridemage to blow up the Weatherlight, and then activate Bow of Nylea to put Skyship and Pridemage back into the library. Use Sisay to get the Skyship back, putting both Pridemage and Top under it. This should be sufficient to explain that you can draw your entire library with this loop and generate effectively infinite amounts of mana. You can use Sisay at this point to cast every legendary but Gaddock Teeg.

There are two main ways to win at this point:

Continue drawing until you reach Beast Within , and cast it on your opponent's permanents repeatedly by looping it with Pridemage, Weatherlight, and Bow. After you've turned all of your opponent's permanents into 3/3 beasts, tutor and cast Urza's Ruinous Blast to exile all of them, leaving your opponents with nothing in play while you still control practically everything.

Urza's Ruinous Blast gives you a way around Rest in Peace and other graveyard hate. Should URB get exiled by casting it to remove RiP, Leyline, Planar Void, etc., you can still win by using Beast Within to destroy all of your opponents permanents- you'll just exile all of the tokens with Path to Exile, then destroy the lands with the Armageddon/Ravages of War you'll draw into from looping Sensei's Top with Skyship Weatherlight and Qasali Pridemage. The end result will still be the same- your opponents will have no board state, and you'll have a field full of beaters (the only difference is whether or not you keep your lands, too).

If your first combo attempt fails or your opponent's decks are too fast to try and push for a victory: 2) Tutor Yisan and develop board presence with hate bears, stax pieces and Elesh Norn keep the board honest, then win by beatdown. This keeps Storm/Food Chain/Ad Nauseam decks from winning by taxing the board. Urza's Ruinous Blast makes a great break in case of emergency, and both Yisan and Sisay can tutor additional mana producers to keep the stax effects more asymmetrical. This line is commonly used if Paradox Engine was exiled.

Combo Lines No Longer Used

1) Bow of Nylea can be tutored out and cast, which, with Reki, the History of Kamigawa and Saffi Eriksdotter during a Sisay + Engine chain, allows you to draw your library. After setting up you can play Blind Obedience or facilitate another combo to win. This combo is stopped by Eidolon of Rhetoric and Ethersworn Canonist, so they either need to be sacrificed to Miren, the Moaning Well or you need to win through beatdown while those hatebears/stax pieces keep combo decks from winning.

2) Thousand-Year Elixir and Selvala, Explorer Returned can draw you through your entire library as well. Ensure Dosan is in play before starting this line. Paradox Engine combined with Selvala and Sisay will let you draw through your library. This lets you activate Sisay (typically around 15 times as there are 21 legendary spells in the deck but several will already be out by this point) to put legendary spells into your hand, and use Selvala to draw 2 cards for each 1 spell you cast, giving you 30 + however many legendary cards are left to work with, which means you can draw through your whole library with ease (as the number of cards you have to cast is higher than the number of lands). If that's too much to deal with you can use Bow of Nylea and Saffi Eriksdotter , as even if you draw 30 lands in a row, Saffi can be put on bottom of the library with Bow and then be tutored with Sisay yet again (and Mox Opal, Amber, and Rishkar + any creature guarantee you have the 4 mana to loop these).

When you get down to your final card, use Green Sun's Zenith in between Selvala activations to deck your opponents because you'll always have that one card to draw but your opponents will eventually get decked out by Selvala's ability. Lightning Greaves can also be tutored to enable the Selvala combo at the cost of one card per loop. This combo is stopped by Spirit of the Labyrinth , so if that's out, you need to do either combo 1 and return Spirit to hand using Cloudstone Curio (or if you have enough mana/cards you can tutor Inventor's Fair and use it twice thanks to Bow of Nylea, fetching both Thousand-Year Elixir and Umbral Mantle).

3) The above two combo lines rely on Paradox Engine being around. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Umbral Mantle is a way to win without Engine, should something happen to it. Selvala makes infinite mana with Umbral Mantle (you need 4 mana to start, but due to Umbral Mantle giving the creature +2/+2 until end of turn, you can produce ludicrous mana off of her assuming you have 1GG to start the loop). Infinite mana with Umbral Mantle also means as many untaps as you want, so you can fetch via Sisay as well. Engine is a fairly large target, but thankfully Sisay can tutor the entirety of this combo line by herself even if Paradox Engine is eliminated (by using Inventors' Fair to get Mantle). The shortcoming of this line is that you need to either already control Selvala into your combo turn, or you need to have a method to give her haste.

For the most part, just stax and interact with the game if opponent's decks are faster than yours, or race out Sisay under protection or haste ASAP if you're playing against stax or slower decks.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 3 Mythic Rares 51 - 3 Rares 16 - 1 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.06
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G
Folders	Retired Commander Decks