shiko_paper by doublevp

Format: Commander

Commander: Shiko and Narset, Unified

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This is a Jeskai spellslinger deck led by Shiko and Narset, Unified. Its central play pattern is to cast a cheap spell, then cast a second spell that targets a permanent or player so the commander copies it. The list adds value through Archmage Emeritus, Jori En, Ruin Diver, and Wavebreak Hippocamp, while Storm-Kiln Artist converts spell density into Treasures. Creature payoffs such as Young Pyromancer, Third Path Iconoclast, Monastery Mentor, Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Murmuring Mystic create a wide board. The deck has solid selection and reasonable interaction, but the mana is mostly fair and the list lacks tutors and a compact kill. Crackle with Power and Explosion are powerful late-game outlets, yet the ordinary sequence does not reliably produce enough mana or damage to end a four-player game quickly. It is strongest in a longer game where recursion and repeated spell value matter.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Ardent Elementalist
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
• 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chemister's Insight
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crackle with Power
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Eerie Interlude
• 1 Electrolyze
• 1 Ephemerate
• 1 Essence Flux
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expansion // Explosion
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithful Mending
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fire // Ice
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Irrigated Farmland
• 9 Island
• 1 Jori En, Ruin Diver
• 1 Leonin Lightscribe
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Momentary Blink
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Murmuring Mystic
• 1 Mystic Confluence
• 1 Mystic Monastery
• 1 Opt
• 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
• 1 Pieces of the Puzzle
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
• 1 Prismari Command
• 1 Prismatic Strands
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shiko and Narset, Unified
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Skyclave Apparition
• 1 Slip On the Ring
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Think Twice
• 1 Third Path Iconoclast
• 1 Treasure Cruise
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
• 1 Young Pyromancer