Walk the Threefold Path by user4322228

Format: Commander

Commander: Elsha, Threefold Master

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck is helmed by Elsha, Threefold Master and operates as an aggressive spellslinger-voltron hybrid. The core game plan revolves around accelerating Elsha out on Turn 3, then leveraging a dense suite of 1-mana cantrips, evasion spells, and pump effects on Turn 4. When Elsha connects for combat damage, its trigger scales off its prowess-buffed power to flood the board with white Monk tokens that also have prowess. On the following turn, casting just a handful of cheap noncreature spells gives the entire Monk swarm exponential buffs to overwhelm all opponents simultaneously. The deck protects its glass-cannon sequence with a dense package of 0-mana and 1-mana protection instants like Flawless Maneuver, Deflecting Swat, and Gods Willing. While it lacks hard stax elements and competitive infinite combos, its sheer velocity and combat scaling create a potent, reliable clock capable of closing games around Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assault Strobe
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brave the Elements
  • 1 Brute Force
  • 1 Cartouche of Knowledge
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Combat Research
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crash Through
  • 1 Curious Obsession
  • 1 Defiant Strike
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Dreadmaw's Ire
  • 1 Elsha, Threefold Master
  • 1 Emerge Unscathed
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faith's Shield
  • 1 Feather of Flight
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Fists of Flame
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haste Magic
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Honor
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Jump Scare
  • 1 Last Chance
  • 1 Leonin Lightscribe
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Monstrous Rage
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Psychotic Fury
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Pyroclasm
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Rebellious Strike
  • 1 Rile
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shardmage's Rescue
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Urza's Bauble
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Warrior's Oath
  • 1 Zhalfirin Shapecraft