after our last EDH session my friend was frustrated with his deck and his performance. He claimed that his winrate is to low compared to the rest of the table and we started to look into it.
He has built a Jeskai Spellslinger Deck. The Goal is to throw a wrench into the engine of the other decks by exiling their stuff, burning down their house and finish in a big explosion with cards like Thousand-Year Storm or Manadorks + Jeskai Ascendancy.
Let me say that his deck is definitely fun to play against and 100% capable of killing other players, but he is running out of gas to finish the whole table and so he is like 2nd or 3rd most of the time. Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest is not his first choice as commander but after he tried out every available option expect from the partner commanders he is sticking with him. I hope WotC will give us some new interesting commanders for Jeskai soon.
If he wants to have a turn with a lot of spells cast, Turnabout untap lands is a great start.
The best mana dork, in my opinion, is missing: Crystalline Crawler.
And the single target X spells aren't a great win condition with multiple opponents. If the creatures are getting prowessed bigger than the rest of the table, he could play things like Earthquake and Fault Line instead (assuming he doesn't go too low on life) to both hit everyone at once and clear the way for attackers.
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after our last EDH session my friend was frustrated with his deck and his performance. He claimed that his winrate is to low compared to the rest of the table and we started to look into it.
He has built a Jeskai Spellslinger Deck. The Goal is to throw a wrench into the engine of the other decks by exiling their stuff, burning down their house and finish in a big explosion with cards like Thousand-Year Storm or Manadorks + Jeskai Ascendancy.
Let me say that his deck is definitely fun to play against and 100% capable of killing other players, but he is running out of gas to finish the whole table and so he is like 2nd or 3rd most of the time. Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest is not his first choice as commander but after he tried out every available option expect from the partner commanders he is sticking with him. I hope WotC will give us some new interesting commanders for Jeskai soon.
Now let's go to the decklist:
1 Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
Artifact (8):
1 Codex Shredder
1 Mizzium Transreliquat
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Ruby Medallion
1 Sapphire Medallion
1 Sunforger
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Sphinx-Bone Wand
Creature (13):
1 Azorius Guildmage
1 Gold Myr
1 Guttersnipe
1 Iron Myr
1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
1 Lunar Mystic
1 Opaline Unicorn
1 Scuttlemutt
1 Silver Myr
1 Soulfire Grand Master
1 Student of Ojutai
1 Warden of the Eye
1 Sage of the Inward Eye
Enchantment (5):
1 Future Sight
1 Jace's Sanctum
1 Jeskai Ascendancy
1 Thousand-Year Storm
1 Trail of Evidence
Instant (26):
1 Aurelia's Fury
1 Beacon of Destruction
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
1 Boros Charm
1 Brainstorm
1 Comet Storm
1 Crib Swap
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Dawn Charm
1 Deflecting Palm
1 Devouring Light
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Fate Forgotten
1 Impulse
1 Jace's Ingenuity
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Pillar of Light
1 Prophetic Bolt
1 Purify the Grave
1 Reality Shift
1 Return to Dust
1 Thoughtflare
1 Trickbind
1 Vanish into Memory
1 Wear // Tear
1 Blessed Light
1 Academy Ruins
1 Arcane Lighthouse
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Clifftop Retreat
1 Command Tower
1 Flamekin Village
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Halimar Depths
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Hanweir Battlements
4 Island
1 Memorial to Genius
3 Mountain
1 Mystic Monastery
3 Plains
1 Plateau
1 Prahv, Spires of Order
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Soldevi Excavations
1 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Swiftwater Cliffs
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
Planeswalker (1):
1 Jaya Ballard
Sorcery (13):
1 Banefire
1 Curse of the Swine
1 Deep Analysis
1 Foresee
1 Invoke the Firemind
1 Mizzium Mortars
1 Mystic Retrieval
1 Plea for Guidance
1 Preordain
1 Profound Journey
1 Red Sun's Zenith
1 Volcanic Vision
1 Twinflame
The best mana dork, in my opinion, is missing: Crystalline Crawler.
And the single target X spells aren't a great win condition with multiple opponents. If the creatures are getting prowessed bigger than the rest of the table, he could play things like Earthquake and Fault Line instead (assuming he doesn't go too low on life) to both hit everyone at once and clear the way for attackers.