Captain Sisay

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

{T}: Search your library for a legendary card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

capwner on One-card wins

1 month ago

So here's an idea you may be familiar with...a one-card win: That is, a card that wins the game or initiates a winning line by itself without needing any other pieces. Just cast that one card and boom, you're in a position to win. This seems very OP because a 1 card combo is of course easier to assemble than 2-or-more card combos, and besides being easy to assemble I think it improves your resilience because it's easy to recur or topdeck a single card, and initial card investment is lower so you have more potential space in hand for interaction or a backup plan. The downside would be a lot of these either cost a lot of mana or require a lot of build around, or both. So some obvious examples of this would be cards like Tooth and Nail that tutor up multiple parts of a 2-part combo. Shared Summons is another card that, given enough mana, can win by itself say by assembling Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista. These double tutor cards are especially sweet because they can also find protection if you already have part of the combo or other tutors. I think Hoarding Broodlord is similar because it tutors for Saw in Half to find more combo pieces, so this wins by itself too. By extension, in the decks that have these, regular Demonic TutorGC or Solve the Equation become a 1-card wins as well! Next there are some weirder ones...there's straight up Enter the Infinite which if resolved should certainly give you the ability to win on the spot with a million counterspell backups. On the opposite end of the curve, Doomsday initiates a combo line by itself but is slower; you either need to pass the turn or have a means of drawing a card to continue comboing. Similarly, Selective Memory in an all-spells deck can exile your whole deck besides Thoracle, then draw her and win next turn. Of course in the all-spells camp there's also Balustrade Spy, Undercity Informer and Goblin Charbelcher which can win on the spot, these are probably the best and actually competitively played archetypes, and Hermit Druid combos similarly. Hmm.... what else, I guess there are tons of 1-card combos with commanders, like Etali + Food Chain, Niv Mizzet + Curiosity, and so on. Those are pretty close to 1-card wins but I would say a different genre of combo than the ones I am discussing. Another card I think fits is Timesifter, with the right build this card can very likely result in a win by itself, though it is totally non-deterministic! I think as a 5 drop artifact, compared with the mana demands of some of the other cards mentioned, this is a very competitive option for a potentially game-ending effect on a single card. I love Timesifter lol. What else? Other tutors like IntuitionGC and Gifts UngivenGC can assemble breach combo by themselves in Jeskai decks with Sevinne's Reclamation. Ad NauseamGC and other mass-draw effects scoop up huge portions of the deck and win from there. Anything that can tutor multiple times like Increasing Ambition or Razaketh, the Foulblooded can win by itself. Goblin Recruiter I'm pretty sure sets up Conspicuous Snoop combo by itself, maybe that's a win next turn one. Approach of the Second Sun but that's REALLY slow by itself. This far down the line I'm tempted to even say Stoneforge Mystic and/or Stonehewer Giant because you can play a line where you get Sword of Hearth and Home to flicker her, get Kaldra Compleat then get Worldslayer and that's baaasically a win 2 turns later from just a Stoneforge. On that topic, MLD spells in general come pretty close to being 1-card wins IMO by relying more on overall deck construction to out-recover opponents, so similar to a Timesifter resolving a Jokulhaups should usually win it for the MLD player if they built their deck right, and if nobody has Tef Pro <- another 1 card win here lol.

I feel like I've blabbed enough, I'd like to know which cards I've missed and what your favorite 1-card wins are? Or even cool Commander + 1 wins if you know of some lesser-known ones. Hey I guess Magda, Brazen Outlaw and Godo, Bandit Wardlord both win by themselves too, right? But kind of slowly, Godo needs haste and Magda needs dwarves/treasures. Also for commanders, I think both Captain Sisay and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can assemble wins by themselves, slowly. Also Yisan, Wanderer Bard.

Anyways thanks for reading if you did, hopefully you got something useful out of this wincon rant. One-card wins are a big principle I try to use in my deckbuilding especially at higher powers and I think trying to enable the wackier ones provides some fun deckbuilding challenge and is really rewarding when you can pull it off.

trippy_mcfly on Cumly Cube

1 month ago

Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4.1! 4 months ago, Cumly Cube 1.4 was released. This was the final major update. As promised, minor tweaks would continue, both to fix any remaining imbalances and keep the card pool fresh. The following 19 swaps should help remove some dominant strategies, specifically by curtailing the power of the “green slop” archetype. The additions also add a lot of new excitement to the cube in only 19 cards; there are multiple cards that introduce the monarch into the game, making this a more central mechanic of Cumly Cube, and there is one card that can be used as a niche combo finish with a Cumly Cube staple.

Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:

REMOVED:

1. Artifact Mutation: too powerful
2. Aura Mutation: too powerful
3. Captain Sisay: too powerful
4. Chromatic Lantern: mana fixing should not be this easy
5. Druid of the Anima: too obvious a choice of Cumly
6. Endbringer: too powerful in multiplayer
7. Explosive Vegetation: mana fixing should not be this easy
8. Firemind Vessel: mana fixing should not be this easy
9. Gilded Goose: too obvious a choice of Cumly
10. Gilded Lotus: too much ramp
11. Glissa Sunseeker: too hateful against artifact decks
12. Growth Spasm: too much ramp
13. Growth Spiral: too much ramp
14. Jetmir, Nexus of Revels: too obvious a choice of Cumly
15. Joiner Adept: too obvious a choice of Cumly
16. Karakas: too powerful
17. Library of Alexandria: too powerful
18. Muldrotha, the Gravetide: too powerful
19. Worldfire: an iconic Cumly Cube card, but sadly too unbalanced due to the ability to float mana and cast your Cumly after, almost certainly winning the game. This strategy still exists with Apocalypse, but is less of a guarantee now

ADDED:

1. Afterlife Insurance: supports the Spirit creature type and instant synergies
2. Arcane Encyclopedia: supports artifact decks
3. Court of Ardenvale: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube
4. Eldrazi Confluence: supports Eldrazi decks
5. Fiend Hunter: supports the Human creature type
6. Horizon of Progress: a utility land to help with mana fixing
7. Moira, Urborg Haunt: supports the Spirit creature type and graveyard synergies
8. Palace Sentinels: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Human creature type
9. Papalymo Totolymo: supports the Dwarf creature type and noncreature synergies
10. Refocus: supports instant synergies
11. Rile: supports instant synergies and works well with Dinosaurs
12. Sage of Hours: supports the Human creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
13. Secluded Courtyard: encourages creature synergies
14. Sigarda, Champion of Light: supports the Angel creature type and the Human creature type
15. Staunch Throneguard: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Construct creature type
16. Thassa's Ire: supports enchantment decks and can do some very powerful things with certain creatures
17. The Golden Throne: supports sacrifice decks and facilitates possible great comebacks
18. Three Tree City: encourages creature synergies
19. Wizard's Rockets: a utility artifact to help with mana fixing

DreadKhan on Buggs Bunny and Friends

1 month ago

Tons of great ideas in here! In thanks I have a few of mine to share, I feel you might need more Basics to run Canopy Vista type lands, I'd run something like Rootbound Crag over Cinder Glade in here in a second. Another mana-base issue I noticed in testing was the possibility of not hitting the 3rd colour, you almost always have Green, but sometimes lack Red or White. The final issue I stubbed my toes on multiple times was drawing too many ETB tapped lands, leading to sluggish games. You could look into stuff like City of Brass, Gemstone Mine, and Mana Confluence to make any of your colours and enter untapped, and there's also more off-colour fetchlands that can find Shock lands. I mostly point this stuff out because the meat of the deck seems quite good, and it feels held back a bit by it's mana (in my tests, ymmv).

In my Selesnya tokens/counters list I found Captain Sisay surprisingly useful, tbh in that list the best thing she found was usually Farmer Cotton (and I didn't have as good token payoffs as you), but your list has various other good tutor choices. That said some groups balk at repeatable tutors, so I can see this one not being personally relevant.

This is in part a 'fun' card, but with your token shenanigans have you ever considered Sylvan Offering? I like the idea of giving a player who's not competing some free tokens and you get x3 of them.

capwner on Account age mana costs displaying …

2 months ago

I tried to make mine the mana cost for Autochthon Wurm and no matter what I do the white always comes in front of the green. This thoroughly bothers my autism. I know white before green matches the WUBRG order and the original multicolor cards in Legends were also {W}{G} (Gabriel Angelfire), but for some reason Selesnya cards were changed to have {G}{W} formatting, at least by the time of Invasion because Captain Sisay has {G}{W}. I think it would be sweet if the account mana system could be tweaked somehow to give more control or more detailed autoformatting so the mana costs display in the correct order for any given color combo. Just a thought, thanks T/O team!

capwner on Yosei Stasis

9 months ago

SufferFromEDHD My first (*EDH) deck was Captain Sisay! If you want to look at my terrible first(ish?) build from 2011 it's up here Sisay Actual, and the current version is the one on my profile. Glad you enjoyed the suggestions, everything else I could think of was already in here (well also Second Sunrise and Faith's Reward but I'm betting you've considered these!). Maybe Diamond Valley as yet another land sac outlet if you are still wanting for outlets? Doesn't seem extremely necessary since you have saga/map as well

DreadKhan on What commander for a Hare …

11 months ago

How pushed do you want your deck to be? If you don't mind leaning into the Commander a bit you could easily use Captain Sisay, the ceiling is tutoring up Thrumming Stone I guess, but finding other Legendary stuff is also very useful, offering you a tool box to solve problems or a win con once you've gotten set up.

I also think Jetmir would be pretty bonkers, and Red gives you stuff like Impact Tremors and Purphoros, God of the Forge, these are great back up win cons if you can't win via attacking for some reason.

SaberTech on Why Does High Fae Trickster …

1 year ago

You see Vedalken Orrery promoted a fair bit on The Command Zone but I've yet to have it survive the first few rounds of cuts in a new commander deck. I think that if you build a deck with a solid game plan then you usually end up wanting a more synergistic card or a piece of interaction that is already instant speed. I do have Yeva in a lower power commander deck because of elf synergies and Vivien, Champion of the Wilds in a deck that also runs Captain Sisay and Seedborn Muse though.

I guess that if I was to make an argument for those sorts of cards in casual commander it would be that since it is a multiplayer format you have the added factor of having to manage aggro from other players. It's something that you don't have to worry about in 1v1 where you just try to make the most optimal plays. In casual commander you have to deal with people with varying levels of threat assessment who may be triggered by particular cards. That means sometimes intentionally holding back cards and letting potential mana usage go to waste if it helps keep multiple people from suddenly ganging up on you until an opportune moment pops up. So being able to cast all your spells at instant speed lets you manage aggro a little better while also giving you more options to efficiently use mana over several turns (assuming that a casual game averages around 8-10 turns).

DreadKhan on CANCER in its purest form

1 year ago

I mean you could maybe do the idea using Sisay, Weatherlight Captain? Or I dunno, use Hare Apparent and Captain Sisay? Too many rabbits is pretty unpleasant too!