Melody of Teachings | Yisan EDH

Commander / EDH* Mono-Green Multiplayer Toolbox

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Instant (1)

• 1x Beast Within

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Primal Command

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Hibernation's End
• 1x Instill Energy
• 1x Song of the Dryads

Artifact (15)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lux Cannon
• 1x Power Conduit
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Voltaic Key

Creature (42)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Druid Lyrist
• 1x Elderscale Wurm
• 1x Elvish Lyrist
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Scrapper
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Indrik Stomphowler
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Magus of the Vineyard
• 1x Phantom Nantuko
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Scavenger Folk
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Silklash Spider
• 1x Stingerfling Spider
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tajuru Preserver
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Thornweald Archer
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Viridian Shaman
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Land (35)

• 29x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Commander (1)

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Toolbox EDH to suit your needs whenever you need them!

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This is a WIP toolbox EDH deck designed for multiplayer play due to it's fairly low power level. This deck is a 75% deck, meaning it is more meant for fun than for winning every game, but has the ability to win when given the chance and when played with skill.

A toolbox deck is one that has two things. First, a wide variety of creatures/spells or "tools" that each suit specific and sometimes quite niche situations. Second, a way to go and grab them as needed. A comparable archetype would be modern Birthing Pod decklists.

Yisan is able to tutor for a number of creatures with board-affecting abilities to fit the need at that particular time. The greatest part of him is that he allows us to do this at instant speed, something previously only feasibly done with Chord of Calling. There are a variety of tactical choices to be made at each CMC number to make sure I am not stuck with a bad option.

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Some noteworthy combos:

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Power Conduit is a great combo piece for this deck in general

• Yisan + Power Conduit/ Ferropede -- Grant yourself the ability to remove counter from your tutor engine to tailor it for what you may actually need.

• Power Conduit + Voltaic Key -- Ability to remove more than one counter a turn if desired.

• Lux Cannon + Power Conduit -- Use up those charge counters effectively.

• Power Conduit + Woodfall Primus -- Grant yourself a sizable body that will keep on coming back for value.

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How can we further alter the number of counters when needed?

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• Scourge of Skola Vale /Miren, the Moaning Well/Cloudstone Curio -- These are used to reset Yisan if he has surpassed the number of counters I desire on him.

• Proliferate via Contagion Clasp, Contagion Engine or Plaguemaw Beast can allow me to generate extra counters of Yisan if I desire to do so.

• Likewise, Instill Energy , Seeker of Skybreak , Thousand-Year Elixir , Umbral Mantle can get Yisan moving much quicker than he would normally.

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Alright, so how exactly do you win? Just piss people off?

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NO! In fact, you couldn't be further from the truth with that statement. This deck, in fact is more meant to act as a political body seeing over the game at hand. Use politics to your advantage and only smite those who people feel are taking over the game or who are being unnecessarily mean to you :(

Hooowevvvverrr....we do wish to win the game eventually. When the time is right, find your time to strike. In playtesting, I've found that getting a board of creatures of varying types is fairly easy if no one is wiping every turn. At this point, it's fiarly straightforward to grab Noble Quarry and attack in with a bunch of them and/or drop a Craterhoof Behemoth to swing in for lethal. Other options can include overwhelming with huge beaters such as Pelakka Wurm , Chameleon Colossus, Hornet Queen, etc. Hydra Omnivore has the unique ability to handle multiple people in one sitting, and both Vigor and Elderscale Wurm can act as an aggressive or defensive creature.

Lightning Greaves and Darksteel Plate are in here to protect Yisan or our current win-condition.

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Current cards in testing:

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• Concordant Crossroads

• Bane of Progress

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This deck was featured in an article by Jason Alt on Gatheringmagic.com. Check it out!

Top Ranked	Achieved #63 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Lux Cannon + Power Conduit Power Conduit + Voltaic Key Power Conduit + Woodfall Primus
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Faerie 1/1 U, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch
Folders	EDH, commander decks of interest, yisan?, EDH, Not My Decks, Want, EDH, YES, Things to Look At, Decks I wanna make