Tishana, Thundering Tank

Commander / EDH GU (Simic)

westerhack

Ramp (24)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Copper Myr
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Gyre Engineer
• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Nest Invader
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Voyaging Satyr

Tokens (12)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Brood Monitor
• 1x Deep Forest Hermit
• 1x Deranged Hermit
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Nest Invader
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Spontaneous Generation
• 1x Sprout Swarm
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Clone (4)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces

Land (2)

• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Field of the Dead

Draw (1)

• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana

Clone (1)

• 1x Phantasmal Image

Land (25)

• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 4x Forest
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 4x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Soaring Seacliff
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

ETB (12)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Brood Monitor
• 1x Deranged Hermit
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Nest Invader
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Evasion (5)

• 1x Distortion Strike
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Soaring Seacliff
• 1x Veil of Secrecy
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Utility (4)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Alt Wincon (1)

• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways

Acquire (1)

• 1x Command Beacon

Commander (1)

Disruption (14)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Turbulent Dreams
• 1x Veil of Secrecy

Other (10)

• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Lair of the Hydra
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Quandrix Campus
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Woodland Stream

Flicker (5)

• 1x Displace
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem

Maybe (3)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Simic Guildgate

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Sanctum of Eternity

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Maybeboard

Other (32)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Citanul Hierophants
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eyeless Watcher
• 1x Force of Will
• 2x Helm of the Host
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix
• 1x Leyline of Abundance
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Minion Reflector
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Timestream Navigator
• 1x Windfall

Dork (8)

• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Leafkin Druid
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Etb (5)

• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Frilled Mystic
• 1x Thragtusk

Evasion (4)

• 1x Caller of Gales
• 1x Merfolk Sovereign
• 1x Neurok Invisimancer
• 1x Wind Dancer

Tokens (3)

• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Mirrorpool

Other (2)

• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x The Great Henge

Land (1)

• 1x Mirrorpool

Copy (7)

• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Spark Double

Tokens (7)

• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Monkey Cage
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Parallel Evolution
• 1x Precursor Golem
• 1x Rampaging Baloths

Flicker (4)

• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Maybe (2)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Force of Negation

Clone (1)

• 1x Mirrorpool

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(For a budget version of this deck, look here.)

The Deck

Unlike a lot of other Tishana, Voice of Thunder decks out there, this one doesn't try and cast a ton of elves and Overrun the opponent. Instead, it abuses Tishana's ETB ability by flickering and cloning.

Gameplay

The general idea of the deck is to put out two or three small dudes that provide mana (dorks, fetchers, etc). These small creatures not only help ramp into the (expensive) Tishana, Voice of Thunder at our helm, but they also count as creatures for her too!

Before casting Tishana, you usually want to follow those small dudes up with any one of our token generators. Not only do most of these token generators provide a lot of creatures for Tishana to work with, but most of them can be flickered out along with Tishana (via things like Ghostly Flicker)—value!

After casting Tishana, you want to flicker or clone her a few times, drawing an insane amount of cards. What's more, once we start flickering/cloning Tishana, her card draw naturally draws us more ways to draw cards. These usually "chain" together, and so once you start flickering/cloning Tishana, you'll probably be able to do so until you run out of mana. Wonderful!

After making Tishana immense, she should probably be large (hopefully with power 21+, so you can OHKO with commander damage). Unlike cloning her, if you had to flicker Tishana to draw more cards, she won't be able to attack; use the commander-staples greaves and boots to let her attack regardless! Once she's ready to attack, give her evasion (via cards like Whirler Rogue, Rogue's Passage, and Veil of Secrecy) and go to town!

Specific cards

Creatures

- Nearly all of our token sources are creatures with ETB effects. They're alternative flicker/clone targets for when Tishana isn't out or when you can flicker more than one thing at a time (e.g. Ghostly Flicker). - The land fetching creatures   we run can also be targeted in a pinch, just like the token sources. - Prime Speaker Zegana + Tishana, Voice of Thunder is INSANE; they piggy-back off one another and can easily draw your whole deck out if you do it right. If Zagana is out, flicker her over Tishana. - Shaman of Forgotten Ways is a dork but also can help you win if Tishana is somehow out of commission. - Whirler Rogue is wonderful. It both creates tokens and provides unblockability.

Instants / Sorceries

- Spontaneous Generation is very strong (kind of like a mini zegana). If you start the game with this in your beginning hand, try not to play too many cards until you cast it—it's that good. - Tishana, Voice of Thunder + Turbulent Dreams is just a wincon. Use Turbulent Dreams to bounce ALL their stuff and swing. You don't even need evasion. - Ghostly Flicker doesn't only hit creatures, so use the other flickers you have (eg Illusionist's Stratagem) first. It's especially broken if you can hit Gaea's Cradle with it. - Sprout Swarm can be very strong. By tapping the extra tokens that are lying around, the buyback cost is not hard at all. - Veil of Secrecy both provides evasion and protection, which is nice. - As it's impossible to kill everyone in the same turn with Tishana,, Temporal Manipulation is used to allow us to take out the two largest threats. I'm heavily considering cutting it, however.

Artifact / Enchantment

- Cryptolith Rite + Deranged Hermit or any of the other token makers is absurd as you go from 5 mana to 10 (assuming you hit your land drop next turn) - Growing Rites of Itlimoc   is also a large mana accelerant, and can help you find more creatures in a slow hand - Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots are used to swing with tishana the turn you flicker her - Thought Vessel allows us to keep our giant hand full of cards even after Tishana has died.

Planeswalkers

• Kiora, Master of the Depths's +1 can help you ramp (untapping a dork + land) and can also get creatures in a pinch with her -2
• Oko, Thief of Crowns is just DUH. Such a broken card it's not even funny. It even can generate creatures for you every other turn! What more could you ask for?
• Nissa, Voice of Zendikar is a cheap, repeatable token generator. It also has a minor interaction wiwth Avenger of Zendikar.

Lands

- Endless Sands and Mirrorpool are backup flicker-ers; Endless Sands also acts as a desert for Scavenger Grounds - Halimar Depths can tip a mediocre hand into a good one. - Khalni Garden is a nice way to start your game off: You get a free plant with your land! It also has a minor interaction wiwth Avenger of Zendikar. - Blinkmoth Nexus, Inkmoth Nexus, and Dryad Arbor can be made into creatures to up your creature count when casting tishana. The former two even can survive (non-instant) wraths. - Field of the Dead is awesome when combined with the fetches. It provides so much resiliency against wraths and allows you to just spam creatures every turn. - Reliquary Tower helps keep your hand full even when Tishana dies - Rogue's Passage and Soaring Seacliff are evasion stuck on lands; don't be afraid to cast the seacliff, you'll draw into more evasion eventually - Scavenger Grounds works really well against graveyard-based decks. - Gaea's Cradle is a no-brainer, especially in this deck where our entire goal is to spam creatures. - Deserted Temple goes quite well with Gaea's Cradle and Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun, providing obscene amounts of mana. It also can be used in a pinch to help with mana screw (as was probably the original intention).

Let me know what you think!

Notes

• I'm not running elf/merefolk tribal. Stuff like the merfolk lords is not productive.

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Prime Speaker Zegana + Tishana, Voice of Thunder Cryptolith Rite + Deranged Hermit
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 1 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.87
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elk 3/3 G, Emblem Kiora, Master of the Depths, Food, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Octopus 8/8 U, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Squirrel 1/1 G, Thopter 1/1 C, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH, New Deck Options