Shiko: Jeskai Shenanigans by user1695420

Format: Commander

Creator: user1695420

Commander: Shiko and Narset, Unified

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Jeskai spellslinger and token swarm strategy helmed by Shiko and Narset, Unified. The game plan revolves around casting multiple inexpensive instants and sorceries each turn to trigger Flurry, copying targeted spells or drawing cards while compounding value through token creators like Monastery Mentor, Young Pyromancer, and Third Path Iconoclast. Fast card draw and selection from spells such as Ponder, Preordain, and Expressive Iteration ensure constant land drops and access to key pieces. Midgame mana velocity is supercharged by Storm-Kiln Artist, Goblin Electromancer, and Mana Geyser, enabling explosive turns where chaining cantrips floods the board with prowess tokens. Interaction is compact and versatile, featuring Swords to Plowshares, Pongify, and Sublime Epiphany, which the commander can duplicate for double value. The deck finishes games on Turns 6 to 7 by overwhelming the table with a lethal prowess attack backed by trample and direct burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancestral Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bandit's Haul
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
  • 1 Defiant Strike
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Elsha, Threefold Master
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleeting Reflection
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeskai Charm
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Magma Opus
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Radiant Scrollwielder
  • 1 Reduce to Memory
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reroute Systems
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Shiko and Narset, Unified
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Unending Whisper
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valorous Stance
  • 1 Velomachus Lorehold
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Voracious Bibliophile
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Young Pyromancer