Monk Airbend by karick50

Format: Commander

Commander: Monk Gyatso

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This deck pairs Monk Gyatso with zero-mana targeting enablers like Nomads en-Kor and Shuko to cheat massive Eldrazi into play. Whenever you target another creature you control, Gyatso exiles it with airbend, allowing you to recast it for only {2} mana. Recasting an Eldrazi titan triggers its powerful on-cast abilities, letting you draw cards with Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, steal entire armies with Emrakul, the World Anew, or exile problematic permanents with Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. With cost reducers like Urza's Incubator or Semblance Anvil, the alternative casting cost drops to {0}, enabling infinite cast loops. These loops immediately eliminate the table using Glaring Fleshraker damage or Altar of the Brood mill. Robust white protection spells like Teferi's Protection and Clever Concealment ensure the engine executes safely.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Breaker of Armies
  • 1 Breaker of Creation
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Conduit of Ruin
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Eldrazi Displacer
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Endbringer
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Eye of Ugin
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 It That Heralds the End
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Kozilek, the Broken Reality
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Matter Reshaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monk Gyatso
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nomads en-Kor
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oblivion Sower
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Shuko
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Irencrag
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thought-Knot Seer
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 War Room