Shu Yun by Inguru

Format: Commander

Commander: Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai spellslinger and Voltron combat strategy commanded by Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest. The primary game plan focuses on deploying Shu Yun early, chaining low-mana noncreature cantrips and combat buffs, and triggering Shu Yun's ability to grant double strike for explosive single-target commander damage eliminations. Built-in prowess synergies and evasion enablers like Steel of the Godhead, Aqueous Form, and Distortion Strike allow Shu Yun to push through lethal commander damage by Turn 5. If Shu Yun is contested, secondary token generators such as Monastery Mentor, Third Path Iconoclast, and Kykar, Wind's Fury transition the board into a wide prowess army backed by Balmor, Battlemage Captain and Jeskai Ascendancy. A focused suite of cheap countermagic, protection spells, and Sunforger packages shield key threats and disrupt opposing win attempts, though the deck remains vulnerable to heavy instant-speed removal and color-intensive mana requirements.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Angelfire Ignition
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Cori-Steel Cutter
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Elsha of the Infinite
  • 1 Elsha, Threefold Master
  • 1 Emerge Unscathed
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feather, the Redeemed
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Flare of Faith
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Inquisitor's Flail
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Kykar, Wind's Fury
  • 1 Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Madcap Skills
  • 1 Mistfire Adept
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Myth Realized
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Narset, Enlightened Exile
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niblis of Frost
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seeker of the Way
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shiko and Narset, Unified
  • 1 Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulfire Grand Master
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Staggering Insight
  • 1 Steel of the Godhead
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taigam, Ojutai Master
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought