monk by stev12546

Format: Commander

Commander: Monk Gyatso

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Mono-White ETB/artifact-value deck built entirely around Monk Gyatso's airbend ability. Whenever another creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, Gyatso exiles it and lets its owner recast it for {2} - turning every targeting effect into a repeatable blink. The deck leans on a dense package of artifact cost reducers (Foundry Inspector, Helm of Awakening, Cloud Key, Semblance Anvil, Pearl Medallion) to make creatures free, then uses en-Kor redirectors (Nomads en-Kor, Warrior en-Kor, Outrider en-Kor) or Triskelion to target its own creatures, triggering airbend and re-triggering ETBs indefinitely. The primary win is an infinite ETB loop feeding Altar of the Brood (mill) or Glaring Fleshraker (burn). Secondary paths are value beatdown behind Voice of Victory's "no spells on your turn" lock and Avatar's Wrath as a one-sided wipe plus cast restriction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Airbender's Reversal
  • 1 Airbending Lesson
  • 1 Akroma's Vengeance
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Another Round
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Cloister Gargoyle
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Delivery Moogle
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Grafted Wargear
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Helpful Hunter
  • 1 Ingenious Smith
  • 1 Inquisitive Puppet
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Kindly Customer
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monk Gyatso
  • 1 Nomads en-Kor
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Outrider en-Kor
  • 1 Pacifism
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 32 Plains
  • 1 Planar Gate
  • 1 Ranger of Eos
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Salt Road Packbeast
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Search Party Captain
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sentinel's Eyes
  • 1 Shepherd of the Flock // Usher to Safety
  • 1 Shuko
  • 1 Skyscanner
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Splitskin Doll
  • 1 Starfield Shepherd
  • 1 Starnheim Courser
  • 1 Ticket Tortoise
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Valorous Stance
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Warrior en-Kor
  • 1 Watcher of the Wayside