Mowu, Hidden Yisan

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Combo Elves Mono-Green

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Creature (31)

• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Scout
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Ravenous Slime
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Stone-Seeder Hierophant
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Instant (14)

• 1x Aspect of Hydra
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blossoming Defense
• 1x Elvish Fury
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Kindred Summons
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Strength of the Tajuru
• 1x Vines of Vastwood
• 1x Wirewood Pride

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Elvish Guidance
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x New Horizons
• 1x Predatory Hunger
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Pir's Whim
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

Commander (1)

Land (31)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 24x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Artifact (8)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Paruns

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Sideboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Glistener Elf
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Immaculate Magistrate
• 1x Majestic Myriarch
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Whisperwood Elemental

Artifact (6)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Gorgon Flail
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Strider Harness

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Biogenic Upgrade
• 1x Courage in Crisis
• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Planewide Celebration
• 1x Rain of Thorns

Instant (5)

• 1x Ancient Animus
• 1x Arbor Armament
• 1x Lifecrafter's Gift
• 1x Withstand Death
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Lure

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The idea is to build mono-G with typical game-winning Yisan lines, based on what i own, but ran with a Mowu shell and switch to Yisan as commander vs more competitive decks.

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• • some immediate thoughts:
• infinite mana, yeva, scryb ranger, sabretooth and scouts would allow evolution sage to proliferate infinitely and instant speed.
• infinite mana elvish fury
• untap lands and oran-rief puts infinite +1's on green creatures that entered the bf this turn
• within this mowu shell, infinite mana and infinite draw would also make creatures infinitely large from elvish fury and give haste from akroma's memorial. infinitely big with altar of dementia also mills.
• if i can untap creatures and get infinite mana, there are quite a few ways that Ulvenwald Tracker can clear the board of creatures. Temur Sabertooth gives itself indestructible, but can also get it from Inspiring Call (or Withstand Death ). if you can eWit ( Skullwinder ), then you can clear all permanents with Beast Within .
• infect proliferate?
• with what the deck does, i dont think it needs to win with poison counters or proliferating them (esp since if i was able and had to proliferate them, i am probably able to win the game some other way); i think i'd still prefer aspect of hydra or wirewood pride over any of the equipment, just from the player-knowledge aspect

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• • Lines (combos)
• Mana from dorks: the typical one - 2 elves, one of which is a 1-drop, + Priest of Titania or Elvish Archdruid , Wirewood Symbiote , and Temur Sabertooth . with no Sabertooth and Yisan on 3 counters, you just need 3 mana to activate Yisan first. with no Sabertooth and Yisan on TWO counters, you need 7 mana (or one less mana for each additional elf you have to start) and shotgun him probably for both Sabertooth and Yeva so that if that resolves, you operate at instant speed. anyways, from there, you get infinite mana as long as the Elf Lord can tap of course, and draw your entire deck afterwards if the Yisan can tap (get Primordial or Soul of Harvest at 6, Regal at 7).
• Mana from lands: the tatyova landlines don't have nearly as many ways to bounce lands or untap the necessary, or simply second, creature(s). futher, you would either need the temur sabretooth anyways, or in considering it, realize that you'd also need to overcome the sabertooth's activation mana. do i still want 1 each of "put a land" and "untap land" for another potential line, and the added bonus of Evolution Sage for "put a land" and Forge of Heroes / Oran-Rief, the Vastwood / the big mana lands for "untap land"? the rangers only return forests, which is fine. the bigger issue is that both of these creature types need to be untapped. so the only way we can do it without stuff like Staff of Domination or Sword of the Paruns is Wirewood Lodge untapping Llanowar Scout or Skyshroud Ranger (putt-ers). lodge untapping Arbor Elf wouldn't really help since we'd still need to untap the putt-ers. stone-seeder hieophant is the great exception here, whose only downside is being the same CMC as Temur Sabertooth . Ley Weaver and Krosan Restorer could untap multiple lands (Lodge and another, or 2 very large mana lands to cover 1G Sabertooth bounce + their CMC, AND having haste (and those potential costs overcome as well). possibly also having Yeva for instant speed cast)). even with Wirewood Lodge , you'd have to untap Ley Weaver or Krosan Restorer , so either way you look at it, Sword of the Paruns is either the better option or required. so get rid of the land shenanigans except for Sakura-Tribe Scout and Llanowar Scout (so there are 2 different cmc options). i think you'd prioritize STS being instant speed over Skyshroud Ranger being an elf.
• • so the way this one shakes out is: Stone-Seeder Hierophant + Temur Sabertooth + a land that taps for 3/4 + either Sakura-Tribe Scout or Llanowar Scout + either Quirion Ranger (3) or Scryb Ranger (4). if you are shotgunning the Stone-Seeder and Sabertooth out that turn, you also need haste ( Swiftfoot Boots or Akroma's Memorial ), and covering the equip cost, for the Stone-Seeder.
• • from there, you can still only return a forest but you can be un-tapping Forge of Heroes or Oran-Rief, the Vastwood and put infinite +1 counters on creatures that entered this turn (which can be all of them, via Sabertooth and the inf mana). you also get infinite landfall triggers on Evolution Sage and infinite creature cast and enter triggers (you can get draw, art/ench destruction, +1's from Ivy Lane Denizen or Pollenbright Druid which can also proliferate, return cards from your graveyard, or fight with Ulvenwald Tracker )

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• • CMC's for Yisan / GSZ:
• 1: Elvish Mystic , Fyndhorn Elves , Llanowar Elves , Quirion Ranger , Sakura-Tribe Scout , Ulvenwald Tracker , Wirewood Symbiote
• 2: Elvish Visionary , Llanowar Scout , Pollenbright Druid , Priest of Titania , Riftsweeper , Scavenging Ooze , Scryb Ranger
• 3: Dosan the Falling Leaf , Elvish Archdruid , Evolution Sage , Ravenous Slime , Skullwinder , Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
• 4: Forgotten Ancient , Ivy Lane Denizen , Nullmage Shepherd , Stone-Seeder Hierophant , Temur Sabertooth , Yeva, Nature's Herald
• 5:
• 6: Primordial Sage , Soul of the Harvest
• 7: Regal Force
• • so the 2 choices for Yisan ideal lines:
• if you've got 2 elves, you can go Wirewood Symbiote and immediately untap Yisan if you've got the mana and get Priest of Titania . since you were able to do that, you very likely have enough mana to shotgun the necessary Sabertooth out the next turn and go off.
• the land line requires more pieces, but we do need a back-up, plus we get decent synergies with the Mowu shell. the good news is that you can technically pull this off in 2 turns with no creatures other than Yisan. the bad news is that you need a land that can tap or at least 3, and you need to provide haste (have to wait a turn for summoning sickness otherwise). with a 3-land, you go Quirion Ranger , then immediately into Llanowar Scout (whereas 4 can do Sakura-Tribe Scout and Scryb Ranger ). the next turn you MUST shotgun stack the 4th lore counter to get both Stone-Seeder Hierophant and Temur Sabertooth , but you can only "go off" if you have haste for the Hierophant.

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• too $$: Asceticism , Basilisk Collar , Beast Whisperer , Collector Ouphe , Concordant Crossroads , Dryad Arbor , Emerald Medallion , Force of Vigor , Genesis Wave , Gyre Sage , Heroic Intervention , Incubation Druid , Karn's Bastion , Pir, Imaginative Rascal , Sword of Truth and Justice , Triumph of the Hordes , Wirewood Lodge

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 29 - 9 Rares 21 - 9 Uncommons 24 - 9 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.87
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Citizen 2/2 WUBRG, Copy Clone, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G
Based on	Mowu, Elvish Vulpix Tymyshu11 EDH