How To Play The Sisay, Weatherlight Captain cEDH Deck In Magic: The Gathering

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain is one of the few cEDH (or competitive Commander) five-color decks in Magic: The Gathering‘s Commander format. Thanks to having access to all colors, Sisay has access to all the best cards released over the years.

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A Sisay, Weatherlight Captain cEDH deck has a ton of different win conditions to let you play an adaptive game. If one gets cut off, you have others to fall back on. It is a very consistent deck, as you have access to a tutor at all times in your command zone to easily find all your combo pieces.

Decklist

The decklist contains eight planeswalkers, 25 creatures, two sorceries, 18 instants, 11 artifacts, six enchantments, and 29 lands. Most of the cards are legendary so they can be put into the battlefield directly by Sisay.

Key Cards

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain is your commander and your primary combo starter​​​​​. Once you establish the ability to generate one mana of every color, you can tutor out just about any card in your deck. This turbo’s out your combo pieces to win the game as fast as possible.

Sisay’s ability to tutor is determined by its power. So, by default, you can only tutor for mana values of two or less. As soon as you have other permanents on the battlefield, Sisay’s stats will grow larger. This is easily done with Leyline of the Guildpact, which makes every permanent all colors.

Emiel The Blessed

The bottom half of Emiel the Blessed is practically irrelevant, as you are playing Emiel the Blessed for its ability to blink a creature. This is a vital part of the strategy, as Emiel is going to be one of the main ways you generate infinite mana.

With any mana dork that can generate at least four mana, Emiel can keep producing one extra mana each activation to continuously make one extra to do whatever you like with. Emiel the Blessed is the most important creature to keep on the battlefield, as it can be a hassle to get it back from the graveyard.

Bloom Tender // Faeburrow Elder

Both Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder serve the same purpose: generating mana equal to each color among the permanents you control​​​​​. If you have all five colors on the battlefield, these mana dorks will tap for five mana in total.

Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder are the main ways you’re going to be generating infinite mana. Thanks to just how much mana they can produce, this becomes a lot easier with just a few cards. Once all five colors are on the battlefield, they can activate Sisay with just one activation of their effects​​​​​.

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, ties the whole deck together. While its activated effect is useless, Derevi’s triggered effect when it enters the battlefield is how to make all your mana generators go infinite.

Dreevi is your primary blink target with Emiel the Blessed. This allows you to keep triggering Derevi’s ability to untap a creature, which lets you untap your mana dorks to keep looping the effects together. This easily provides infinite mana, which can be funneled into Sisay for your win conditions.

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How To Play The Deck And Combos

A Sisay, Weatherlight Captain cEDH deck has a toolbox of cards for any given situation. The deck can go for combos or take a backseat and play a more control strategy with counterspells and a suite of removal. This versatility is what allows Sisay to shine in the competitive environment while other decks can falter.

There are multiple combos in the deck, so even if one is cut off, you can fall on backup combos to reach a win condition. If you do lose out on an important piece, Noxious Revivial and Colossal Skyturtle can get them back from the graveyard. Alternatively, if an important creature is in the graveyard, you can exile it with Agatha’s Soul Cauldron to give its effect to another creature.

The most important combo to know is how to generate infinite mana. This is how to go down that line, which is needed for other combos.

Once you generate infinite mana, you can win with these combos:

With this route, to win the game, you can use Thassa’s Oracle or Finale of Devastation with a massive “X” number to have enough damage to bring all life totals down to zero. If you already have Mount Doom on the battlefield, you can skip this combo and just dump all your mana into its effect for infinite damage to all opponents. If you don’t have it, you can use this combo until you draw it.

Another plan is winning with Finale of Devastation and Kinna, Bonder Prodigy once you generate infinite mana. This only requires having Finale of Devastation in hand, along with infinite mana.

The downside to this combo is that if your opponent has access to a ton of creatures to chump block, you can’t win the game. This is very much an “in case of emergency” combo.

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