Thrasios/Ishai

Commander / EDH*

NefariousJoanes

Land (34)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opal Palace
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wastes
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (9)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x Thought Vessel

Instant (19)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dromoka's Command
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Creature (19)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selfless Squire
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tireless Tracker

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Explore
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds

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Pretty much a Thrasios deck, wins with typical cheesy bant combo stuff, and kills with Aetherflux Reservoir. Tries to be a card-advantage/control deck until that can happen.

If Aetherflux Reservoir is exiled, can still win with Reality Shift and Beast Within.

Ishai can actually win some games on it's own. But usually he is there to block or force somebody to use removal on him. If I get ramp on turn 2, I like to cast him on turn 3 usually, and then wait until I have 6 total mana to cast Thrasios. But unless keeping him alive means you get to kill somebody with commander damage on your next attack, it's almost always wrong to expend resources protecting Ishai. If somebody is using removal on him, he did his job. Just get more mana and cast him again.

Also infinitely recurring Time Warp and attacking with whoever is on board will occasionally win. But I rarely shoot for this, and will not hesitate to just cast Time Warp as a 5-mana Explore if I have nothing else going on.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	ins