20 Ways to Win by WallyGator

Format: Commander

Commander: Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color "alternate win condition" deck helmed by Go-Shintai of Life's Origin. Rather than a conventional combat or combo plan, the deck is packed with over a dozen distinct "you win the game" effects spanning every category: life-based wins (Felidar Sovereign, Test of Endurance), hand-size wins (Triskaidekaphile, Twenty-Toed Toad), token/artifact wins (Halo Fountain, Mechanized Production, Hellkite Tyrant, Revel in Riches), counter-based wins (Simic Ascendancy, Mayael's Aria, Helix Pinnacle), and oddball conditions (Approach of the Second Sun, Biovisionary, Happily Ever After, Liliana's Contract, Maze's End). The commander provides enchantment recursion and Shrine tokens, but the deck is fundamentally a goodstuff pile that wins through whichever condition it draws into. It is a slow, grindy, inevitability-driven deck that aims to outlast the table and resolve one of its many win conditions.

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