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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
Legendary Creature — Bird Monk
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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Shazica on
4 days ago
I have a very similar deck with Reyhan, Last of the Abzan and Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker as commanders. I was looking into having Atraxa as a commander instead, but Atraxa is infamous for being a very strong creature that amasses tons of scary, unpredictable value - it is a poison deck? Is it a +1/+1 counters deck? Is it a superfriends deck? Most often, you will find that the other players have Rule 0-ed you as the archenemy before the game begins.
There are two things you can do about this. You can either rise up to the challenge, or you can change commander.
If you want to take on the challenge of constant Archenemy because you want to keep Atraxa, then you have multiple cards that are too weak. Some of which are Arcus Acolyte, the three Myojins, Pollenbright Druid, Murder, Magistrate's Scepter, Chromatic Lantern, Vivisurgeon's Insight, and Expand the Sphere for starters. There are probably 10-20 more I would consider cutting, since these are too casual for the level of play you're signaling with Atraxa. Instead, run low-mana spells like Nature's Lore, Night's Whisper, Fierce Guardianship, Heroic Intervention, Flawless Maneuver, Deadly Rollick, Mystic Remora, Cyclonic Rift, Negate, Swan Song, the WUBG shock lands with their fetches, the list goes on... This won't make your deck cEDH, this will make it more reliable, reactive, and consistent in answering most of your opponents stuff.
If you want to change commanders, you can go for Falco Spara, Pactweaver for value, Anafenza, the Foremost for aggressive, Ghave, Guru of Spores for combo, or the partner pairings of Cazur, Ruthless Stalker  Flip + Ukkima, Stalking Shadow, or Nikara, Lair Scavenger + Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel. All of these will force you to abandon a fourth color, but restriction breeds creativity...?
Side note 1: You can still run Atraxa in the 99, that is a more commonly accepted usage.
Side note 2: You have two Ivy Lane Denizen.
Crow-Umbra on
A Match Made in Hell EDH
2 months ago
Your deck concept is really cool. I've seen Jeska put in plenty of work when paired with Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker, via a deck one of my friends plays. Jeska makes things scary pretty fast.
Idk if you've played this deck irl yet, but do you feel like you have enough Ball Lightning-like creatures? I'm counting about 9 of your 18 so far. I think getting in some more Copying and Reanimation effects could help you a bit. I get that Jeska makes 1 target creature scary, but I figured some copy effects could let you attack multiple opponents, or really laser one person down. A few things for you to consider:
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Animate Dead/ Necromancy - Animate Dead is your cheapest option of the 2, but Necromancy can be cast at instant speed if needed.
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Phyrexian Reclamation - Fairly cheap and low to the ground for hand recursion.
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Kolaghan's Command - Modal options, including some recursion to hand.
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Athreos, God of Passage - More Ramos redundancy. Not super budget, but could be helpful in a deck like this.
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Delina, Wild Mage - She's something I've played in my Isshin deck, and has a bit of a higher ceiling there, but the potential to make many Ball Lightning creatures off some lucky rolls is pretty silly.
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Ogre Battledriver - Another Haste anthem with additional upside to beef up creatures on ETB.
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Living Death - Redundancy with Ramos. Has finisher potential with a graveyard full of Ball Lightnings, also helpful since Jeska will dodge it.
I hope these suggestions are helpful.
Last_Laugh on
Atraxa
2 months ago
Have you ever considered Reyhan, Last of the Abzan and Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker as your commanders with Atraxa in the deck? Reyhan/Ishai draw so much less hate it's not even funny, they're easier to cast, are WAAAY more explosive with +1+1 counters than a single proliferate per turn, and having The Ozolith type effect in your command zone makes the deck a lot more resilient.
Feel free to check out my list for ideas. Upvotes on any of my decks are appreciated. Little Rey of Ishine (Reyhan/Ishai)
Gidgetimer on Ishai copies?
2 months ago
Each Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker will get one counter. When an ability references the permanent it is on by name it means "the permanent that this ability is on". If an effect affects all permanents with a given name it will say "named" or "with the same name" like Cylian Sunsinger does.
ImNora on Ishai copies?
2 months ago
So if I use Sakashima of a Thousand Faces to make a copy of Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker, since it says to put a +1/+1 counter on "Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker", does that mean each copy would give themselves and each other+1/+1 counters? Like, let's say I have two Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeakers and an opponent casts a spell. Do my Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeakers each get two counters instead of one?
carpecanum on
Kangee
8 months ago
Contagion Engine if you can afford it. That way you only need one counter on Kangee to be meaningful. Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker might be a better commander since Kangee need so much more mana to get a counter.
This looks like you are trying for a budget build but it doesn't say that.
Even if its budget, Mindshrieker is cheap and can cause massive damage.
carpecanum on
For The Birds! EDH ed.
8 months ago
Literally did this same thing for my son. Dovescape freaked out so many people we built a deck around it. Our deck is titled "Have you heard the word?" if you want to look at it (not quite as budget as your deck, around $175).
You need to mark your commander by typing CMDR after it, flanked by asterix (if i type it out here it just adds italics) (we used Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker)
Aven Mindcensor is awesome. It even stops ramp when people realize Cultivate might not even net them a single land.
Thieving Magpie and Spear of Heliod are both very useful.
SithLord on
Birb Storm
10 months ago
There are very few birds to be found here. Odd, because this is a tribal bird theme deck. You aren't even running Maskwood Nexus or Arcane Adaptation
So here are some birds I found that would be fun to play:
Aven Brigadier !!!!!
Whippoorwill an exile for so little the cost
Storm Crow why isn't this here?
Spire Owl cheap, but nice
Sephara, Sky's Blade this hits the field by turn 4 for 1 white mana!
Ledger Shredder badass name and badass ability
Cartographer's Hawk a fun card that empties your deck of plains
Flurry of Wings and Settle the Wreckage There is so much fun to be had
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker_ look at this scawwwwww _ Warden of Evos Isle not needed, but nice for making 5 mana birds cost less
Empyrean Eagle lord
Kangee, Sky Warden all it takes is one 1/1 bird token to scwwwaaa
Kangee, Aerie Keeper you can't run one bird and not have any feathers ay?
Shabraz, the Skyshark its a sharknado
Wingmate Roc the best wingman
High Sentinels of Arashin use your mana ramp to buff your army
Nimble Obstructionist _a tale's end _
Emeria Angel dude
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