Yisan, Bard of Combo

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Elves Mono-Green

Emzed

Mana (41)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 21x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Wooded Foothills

4-drops (6)

• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Temur Sabertooth

6-drops (3)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Woodland Bellower

8-drops (1)

• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth

Utility (14)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Quest for Renewal
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Worldly Tutor

2-drops (8)

• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Wall of Roots

3-drops (5)

• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Wood Elves

Combo (3)

• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Commander (1)

1-drops (13)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Heritage Druid
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Skyshroud Ranger
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote

5-drops (3)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Somberwald Stag

7-drops (2)

• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Regal Force

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Sideboard

Other (3)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

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Maybeboard

Other (54)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Budoka Gardener  ^Flip
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Hall of Gemstone
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Ley Weaver
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Masticore
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Oak Street Innkeeper
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Skyshroud Poacher
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tajuru Preserver
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thought-Knot Seer
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Warping Wail
• 1x Whisperwood Elemental
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald

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Fast green combo deck with a lot of versatility and consistency. The plan is to always cast Yisan on turn 2, then either go for one of various combos or tutor up disruptive creatures.

The cards can be roughly grouped into four categories:

Cards that generate mana. The one and only thing to look for in your opening hand is "Can this hand cast Yisan on turn 2?". The deck is built with this goal in mind, and you should mulligan until your opener is able to produce at least 3 mana on turn 2. Usually that means 2+ lands and some kind of accelerator. The rest of the opening hand is more or less irrelevant, just get Yisan online, he can do all the work. About half of the list belongs in this category.

Cards that synergize with Yisan and/or eachother. Your primary goal is winning with one of various infinite combos, usually involving infinite mana as well as untaps for your creatures and/or reuse of "enters the battlefield" triggers. Some of them can be assembled by Yisan alone (for example Temur Sabertooth + Wirewood Symbiote + creature that taps for 5 mana + 1cmc Elf). Others involve artifacts like Umbral Mantle that you can't tutor for, but once you draw one of them, Yisan can find a creature to combo with it (in this case Karametra's Acolyte is a good option).

Cards that interact with the opposition. If your opponents threaten to race you or hinder your development (say, Linvala, Keeper of Silence or Torpor Orb ), it's often necessary to interact with their creatures, artifacts, enchantments or lands. A variety of silverbullets can be found via either creature tutors or land tutors to do the job. Quite often you can chain some interactive cards together to play a mana denial game for a couple of turns before you finish via combo. The cards in this group are mostly metagame choices and not essential to the backbone of the deck.

Cards that glue the deck together. This includes some additional tutor effects, value engines like Sylvan Library or Regal Force as well as an alternative win condition in Craterhoof Behemoth . Sometimes the game doesn't go exactly according to plan, and that's when these cards are usually at their best.

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 1 Mythic Rares 32 - 2 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch
Folders	EDH, Edh, ideas, i like this, EDH, Deck Tech, Others Decks