Hei Bai, Forest Guardian [READY] by eckoefx

Format: Commander

Commander: Hei Bai, Forest Guardian

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Hei Bai, Forest Guardian heads a five-color Shrine value deck that cheats enchantments into play and then buries the table under triggered drain, tokens, and evasive combat. Hei Bai's enter trigger reveals into a Shrine and puts it onto the battlefield, so the 99 is packed with cheap blink, airbend, and end-step flicker engines that recast that trigger every turn. Once six or more Shrines are out, Sanctum of All doubles the Honden and Sanctum triggers while Sanctum of Stone Fangs, Northern Air Temple, and Honden of Infinite Rage start deleting life totals; Honden of Life's Web, Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose, and Hei Bai's own WUBRG activation flood the board with Spirits that ignore non-Spirit blockers. There is no infinite combo - the deck wins by assembling a critical mass of legendary enchantments and riding their upkeep and main-phase triggers. Hei Bai is the fastest assembler but not a hard lock: the Shrines can be hardcast, and Sanctum of All still tutors them if the commander is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang's Journey
  • 1 Aang's Shelter
  • 1 Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Airbender's Reversal
  • 1 Airbending Lesson
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Crescent Island Temple
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Enter the Avatar State
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Getaway Glamer
  • 1 Go-Shintai of Ancient Wars
  • 1 Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty
  • 1 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
  • 1 Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honden of Cleansing Fire
  • 1 Honden of Infinite Rage
  • 1 Honden of Life's Web
  • 1 Honden of Night's Reach
  • 1 Honden of Seeing Winds
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Northern Air Temple
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Paradise Chocobo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personify
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sanctum of All
  • 1 Sanctum of Calm Waters
  • 1 Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest
  • 1 Sanctum of Stone Fangs
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shu Jing Meteorite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Southern Air Temple
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Spirit Oasis
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 White Lotus Hideout
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills