20 Ways to Win by FludDiceGoblin

Format: Commander

Commander: Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This five-color deck uses Go-Shintai of Life's Origin as a resilient recursion engine to assemble a vast collection of alternate win conditions. The deck avoids traditional combat damage in favor of achieving specific game-ending board states. Primary victory paths include kicking Rite of Replication on Biovisionary, collecting Gates with Maze's End, triggering life-total thresholds with Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance, or resolving Approach of the Second Sun twice. Supported by heavy pillowfort enchantments, passive card draw, and recurring enchantment retrieval through the commander, the deck stalls opponents until one of its inevitable alternate win conditions triggers on an upkeep.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alseid of Life's Bounty
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Biovisionary
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Boros Guildgate
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Citadel Gate
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Cliffgate
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Halo Fountain
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Happily Ever After
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Helix Pinnacle
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lignify
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mayael's Aria
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Guildgate
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Eternal Wanderer
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thornglint Bridge
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Trace of Abundance
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan