Y47 . Shaolin Monastery by KMS_Merlin13

Format: Commander

Commander: Elsha, Threefold Master

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Jeskai spellslinger and combat-combo strategy led by Elsha, Threefold Master. The deck's primary game plan revolves around deploying Elsha on Turn 3 and immediately leveraging a dense suite of 1-mana combat tricks, cantrips, and evasion spells on Turn 4. Because Elsha possesses trample, prowess, and a triggered ability that creates a 1/1 prowess Monk token for each point of combat damage dealt to a player, resolving pump and double-strike spells turns a single attack into a lethal blow while spawning a massive army in the process. On the following turn, casting two or three additional noncreature spells triggers prowess across the entire token board, delivering lethal combat damage across all three opponents. The deck supplements this aggressive core with high-efficiency interaction, dedicated protection spells, and redundant prowess generators like Monastery Mentor and Narset, Enlightened Exile to maintain momentum through opposing removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aligned Heart
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Assault Strobe
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brute Force
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crash Through
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Elsha of the Infinite
  • 1 Elsha, Threefold Master
  • 1 Emerge Unscathed
  • 1 Enter the Avatar State
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Flamehold Grappler
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infuriate
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Jeskai Brushmaster
  • 1 Leap
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Monastery Swiftspear
  • 1 Monstrous Rage
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Narset, Enlightened Exile
  • 1 Narset, Jeskai Waymaster
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Psychotic Fury
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Rebellious Strike
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Past
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taigam, Master Opportunist
  • 1 Taigam, Ojutai Master
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Titan's Strength
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Warlord's Fury
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Wild Ride
  • 1 You're Not Alone