Where's Waldo a.k.a. Mono-White Yisan

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Equip Indestructible Land Destruction Mono-White Primer Sacrifice Toolbox

JKRice

2 cmc (12)

• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Torpor Orb

6 cmc (8)

• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Workhorse

5 cmc (5)

• 1x Bronze Guardian
• 1x Dollhouse of Horrors
• 1x Ironsoul Enforcer
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Worldslayer

Tutor (4)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic

9 cmc (1)

• 1x Darksteel Forge

0 cmc (9)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Welding Jar

1 cmc (9)

• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Masterwork of Ingenuity
• 1x Myr Moonvessel
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 23x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Urza's Saga

8 cmc (2)

• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Platinum Emperion

Recursion (2)

• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Second Sunrise

Commander (1)

3 cmc (9)

• 1x Brass Squire
• 1x Cathodion
• 1x Cloudsteel Kirin
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Trinisphere

4 cmc (5)

• 1x Bottled Cloister
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Su-Chi

7 cmc (4)

• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Platinum Angel

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Maybeboard

Other (28)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eye of Vecna
• 1x Glass Casket
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Hot Soup
• 1x Indomitable Archangel
• 1x Jandor's Saddlebags
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Myr Welder
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Prized Statue
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Serra Paragon
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Treasure Keeper
• 1x Uba Mask
• 1x Wedding Ring
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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Named for the commanders real actual name as well as the time spent searching your library while setting up the win

This is a casual deck. Though it can “win” turn 3-4, it often takes much longer. There are no infinite combos, the main non-infinite combo is somewhat mana intensive, and technically you don’t win on the spot. The goal is to set up until turn 5-6, then go through a complicated line with Oswald Fiddlebender and Illusionist's Bracers or Thornbite Staff (it doesn’t matter which, so long as you have enough mana you can use one to find the other and keep going). At the end of the oswald line, most of the relevant cards in the deck will be on the battlefield, including Worldslayer and Darksteel Forge. I’m sure you can work out what happens after.

Lines to Win

The fastest simplest line: Illusionist's Bracers into Thornbite Staff into quick worldslayer

• this line assumes sufficient mana, which includes at least four white sources

• note to self (please ignore): 5W 6C, 2W 6C for two, then 3W (+16C) for 3, total 5W 6C (+16C)

• note to you (ignore if you wish): this is much less mana intensive if you find preferably Hammer of Nazahn or secondarily Brass Squire before doing anything else, and then wait until the next turn to go off

• sacrifice any artifact of cmc 1 to find Magewright's Stone and Thornbite Staff, use the stone to untap waldo and then equip staff. This is mana intensive I know.

• sacrifice Magewright's Stone to find Thousand-Year Elixir and Cathodion. Since the stone is not a creature, you must use elixir/seal to untap waldo

• sacrifice Cathodion making three mana to find Hammer of Nazahn and Su-Chi. Hammer of nazahn equips automatically, and Waldo untaps

• sacrifice Su-Chi making four mana to find Worldslayer and preferably Kuldotha Forgemaster, though any 5cmc fella will do. Worldslayer equips automatically due to Hammer of Nazahn. Waldo untaps.

• if you found Kuldotha Forgemaster in the previous step and you have enough artifacts on the field, activate it with haste through Thousand-Year Elixir to find Darksteel Forge and swing out with Waldo to blow up everyone else’s stuff. If you found a different 5 cmc buddy, continue with the steps below.

• sacrifice your 5cmc friend to find Planar Bridge or Soul of New Phyrexia as well as Workhorse, Waldo untaps

• Remove 3 counters from a horse to make 3 colorless mana in case you need it, use remaining mana to activate Planar Bridge finding Darksteel Forge, or if you found Soul of New Phyrexia, sink mana into its first ability. Attack whoever is open and destroy everyone else's permanents

Waldo line 2: This is the same as line 1, except maybe someone has blockers, or maybe you want to show your opponents that you can actually kill them quickly

• Start with your mono-white yisan on 5 verse counters, a.k.a you’ve followed line 1 to tutor up Worldslayer and any 5cmc buddy. Sacrifice the buddy to Waldo, but this time find Workhorse and a 6 cmc artifact. The second artifact will depend on the board state. If you have no white mana left, or if Chromatic Orrery is not a later option for some reason, find Mycosynth Lattice. If neither of those things are true, find God-Pharaoh's Statue for stax or Duplicant to exile an opponent's difficult creature.

• If you went through Myr Moonvessel, Cathodion, and Su-Chi to get here, you should have ten colorless mana floating which can now be used to activate Waldo through lattice or orrery later.

• Remove 3 counters from the horse to make three more mana, sac the horse to find both Chromatic Orrery and one other card, depending on the state of the board. If you have at least one artifact creature on the field of cmc 0 and don’t care about style points, you should find Platinum Angel. If you have no artifact creatures on the field of cmc 0, or if you care very much about style points, find Myr Battlesphere and make four myr guys. If there’s an Ensnaring Bridge or the like on an opponent’s field, find Meteor Golem instead.

• sacrifice whichever 7 cmc friend you have to find preferably Platinum Emperion, or if emperion is in your hand or elsewhere find Colossus of Akros

• sacrifice the 8 cmc guy to get Darksteel Forge

• now it’s time to start again from verse 1. Sacrifice either your little myr fellas from battle sphere or whichever 0 cmc artifact creature you already had in play to find Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant and whichever 1 cmc creature. Untap Waldo

• sacrifice the 1 cmc friend to find Prowler's Helm

• at this point your win is secured and then some, but you’ve still got some floating mana and some myr fellas. If you want, chain up from any number of the remaining myr to find some combination of Argentum Armor, Colossus Hammer, Cloudsteel Kirin, and Sculpting Steel or Masterwork of Ingenuity to double or triple down on the hammer.

• pop Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant to bring back everything you’ve sacrificed to Waldo this turn. Swing with an unblockable Waldo and destroy everyone else’s stuff. Now you’ve spent an hour searching your library just to pass the turn.

Other Stuff

Not losing in the meantime:

• this deck originally had the Drannith Magistrate and Uba Mask/Knowledge Pool lock, with Pyre of Heroes to find Drannith, but I felt that lock was too solid and easy to find for a proper casual combo deck, so I removed it

• the remaining lock is a soft lock, Ensnaring Bridge + Bottled Cloister to give yourself protection from combat while you set up to chain with Waldo

• beyond that, there’s some stax pieces that Waldo breaks parity with pretty easily. Trinisphere, Ethersworn Canonist, Lodestone Golem, and Sphere of Resistance are all excellent since after the first couple turns your hand will not matter in the slightest. Pithing Needle and Phyrexian Revoker turn off anything annoying at the table that will stop you from winning, while Torpor Orb stops Reclamation Sages and what have you. Null Brooch doubles as both a second copy of Bottled Cloister and a ‘no’ on a stick.

Everything from here on is a work in progress

Tentative unfinished line 3: Starting with only Thornbite Staff

• note to self: 5W end with +8C

• if you only have Memnite or Ornithopter or Phyrexian Walker on the battlefield, sac one of them to find preferably Myr Moonvessel, untap waldo with the staff trigger

• you should have Myr Moonvessel on the field from the previous step, or you might begin here with moonvessel or Esper Sentinel already on the field. Sacrifice vessel or sentinel to find preferably Gleaming Barrier. If barrier is in your hand or elsewhere, instead you can get any 2 cmc artifact creature. Untap Waldo.

• Sacrifice barrier to find preferably Cathodion, untap waldo

• sacrifice Cathodion making three mana to find preferably Su-Chi, untap waldo

• sacrifice Su-Chi making four mana to find preferably Bronze Guardian, untap waldo

• sac whichever 5cmc creature you have to find Mycosynth Lattice, which allows you to use colorless mana to keep the Waldo train going. If you went through Myr Moonvessel, Cathodion, and Su-Chi, you should have eight colorless mana floating.

Notes to self (please ignore):

• Feroz's Ban / God-Pharaoh's Statue

• charge counters nope

• nim deathmantle su chi

• grafdigger’s cage sensei’s top salvage scout damping sphere smuggler’s copter chalice of the void juntu stakes

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Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Myr 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Potential Fellas