Jeskai mentor feat. Elsha

Commander / EDH RUW (Jeskai, America)

Benama9

Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Instant (23)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Opt
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Unexpectedly Absent
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Entreat the Angels
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Terminus

Creature (2)

• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x The Locust God

Commander (1)

Artifact (20)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Forcefield
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Unwinding Clock

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Ancestral Knowledge
• 1x Penance
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought

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This is my attempt to make a Jeskai mentor list work in EDH with a small miracles package. This is not a cEDH deck with infinite combo wincons (although, we could, in theory, go infinite with mind over matter + elsha + top + a mana positive rock, we can't go crazy and draw our deck because we need a combat step to win. I didn't wanted to do a pure combo deck, just a powerful Jeskai mentor deck), although it has really powerful synergies.

So far the deck has performed quite well. With top and Elsha we can then dig our library to find one of our three wincons (monastery mentor, entreat the angels and the locust god). If, on our way, we find a mind over matter, we can then untap one of our mana positive rocks to essentially "discard a card, draw 2 cards". If we don't happen to have one of them we can just keep looting till we find our wincon.

Both monastery mentor and locust god win the same way: Make a bunch of tokens eot (top with elsha reads: pay 1: draw a card and cast a noncreature, nonland card) which works awesome with both our wincons, and then do it again in your turn to win the game. As said before, if you happen to have mind over matter things become nasty really quick.

Some nice interactions I've discovered till now (more testing to come):

1 - Play a Narset, parter of veils at instand speed from the top. Make your own notion thief!! 2 - Go and find whatever number from 0-3 you need for counterbalance if you have Elsha and top in play. Just look the top 3, and if you don't find your number, flip top a couple times, draw a couple cards and try again. This is the best counterbalance deck I've played by far. Penance is just absurd in this deck with counterbalance too. 3 - Replay your artifacts from your gy at instant speed with academy ruins. 4- Both Elsha and the mentor are monks, which is nice for our cavern of souls :P

Our gameplan is simple: Stay under the radar ramping and let your opponents waste removal. Tutoring for top the first turns is crucial too. Then play Elsha and start generating tons of card advantage.

On the way you will find ton of top deck synergies with cantrips and other cards (counterbalance and penance mainly, but there are more) until you find mind over matter or one of your wincons. Then just kill the table with mentor, locust god or entreat the angels.

I'm not sure about both fact of fiction (I like the digging though) and council's judgment. These are cards I will probably change in the near future.

If you used to enjoy the old Legacy miracles and both Vintage and Legacy Jeskai mentor decks, you will probably enjoy this deck as well :)

More to come! :)

Marcos www.zonacommander.com

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.19
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Dack Fayden, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Monk 1/1 W, Shark X/X U, Treasure
Folders	commander