<p style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CMasateru+Ikeda%E2%80%9D&amp;unique=art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Masateru Ikeda</a></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hey everybody, welcome back to another deck tech. I'm newly minted #MTGAmbassador <a href="http://linktr.ee/commandzoe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Command Zoe</a>, and today I want to show you my favorite new commander from the <a href="https://edhrec.com/sets/tla" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Avatar: The Last Airbender</em></a> set: <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Princess Yue"></div></div></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I'm talking about the pre-mooned version, not the post-moon version depicted in <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Yue, the Moon Spirit" href="#" target="_blank">Yue, the Moon Spirit</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This set has several variants of the same character, so it's important to be specific when referencing legendary creatures in particular. </span></p>
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<h2>What Does <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Do?</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On its face, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> seems like a rather bland commander. It taps to scry 2, it’s got a mediocre 3/2 stat line, and when it dies it comes back as a land that can tap for colorless. It's important to note that it retains the rest of the card’s inherent qualities like types, oracle text, and mana value. Set-mechanic wise, it’s meant to be used with earthbending to keep it around as a creature indefinitely. However, there are lots of ways to abuse this returning to the field as a land, but for the purposes of this deck the key interaction is with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Clone" href="#" target="_blank">Clone</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> effects.</span></p>
<p>Yue is an interesting commander because there aren't really any comparable effects out there. She's the first commander that returns to the battlefield on death that they've printed. The only card that is remotely close is also a brand new card, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fang, Roku&#039;s Companion" href="#" target="_blank">Fang, Roku&#039;s Companion</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Fang, Roku&#039;s Companion"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Wake up, honey! A new type of commander just dropped.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a combo deck that works by taking advantage of the interaction between Princess Yue and these Clone effects. Being mono-blue, it’s going to have a lot of card draw, several ways of protecting itself with counterspells and bounce effects, and then ways of getting to the combo more quickly, like tutors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are also, of course, the tools every deck needs to succeed, like lands and ramp.</span></p>
<h2>Key Cards for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are a few different combos in the deck that instant win the game unless interacted with. The key interaction is between <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Clone" href="#" target="_blank">Clone</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> effect, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wormfang Newt" href="#" target="_blank">Wormfang Newt</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wormfang Turtle" href="#" target="_blank">Wormfang Turtle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Here's how it works:</span></p>
<ol>
<li>Have Princess Yue and Wormfang Newt or Wormfang Turtle on the battlefield.</li>
<li>Play Clone, or a similar creature, have it enter as a copy of Princess Yue.</li>
<li>Either Princess Yue or her clone have to die to the legend rule. Choose the clone. When it dies, it will trigger the Yue dies ability, returning to the battlefield as Moon, a noncreature land, but with Clone's copy ability.</li>
<li>This time have the Clone enter as copy of Wormfang. This card will now be a <em>noncreature land</em> copy of Wormfang.</li>
<li>Wormfang has an enters trigger to exile a land you control. Since it's a land, the clone/wormfang can target itself.</li>
<li>It exiles itself, which triggers its second ability, returning itself.</li>
<li>When it comes back from exile, it's once again just a Clone. You can now repeat this all as a loop.</li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Wormfang Turtle"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I like turtles.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are several ways to take advantage of this. Any cards that have a triggered ability for either a creature or a land entering the battlefield will work. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Altar of the Brood" href="#" target="_blank">Altar of the Brood</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ruin Crab" href="#" target="_blank">Ruin Crab</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Sage&#039;s Row Denizen" href="#" target="_blank">Sage&#039;s Row Denizen</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> will all mill your opponents out entirely. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Genesis Chamber" href="#" target="_blank">Genesis Chamber</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can make infinite 1/1 Myr tokens which can be used to any number of sacrifice outlets, or just attack with them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Starfield Vocalist" href="#" target="_blank">Starfield Vocalist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> will make infinite mana because the Wormfang will trigger twice, and the land you choose comes back untapped. You can abuse this effect with a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Blue Sun&#039;s Zenith" href="#" target="_blank">Blue Sun&#039;s Zenith</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to draw your whole deck with the first cast then kill each opponent with the subsequent recasts.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hedron Crab"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Ruin Crab in a fake mustache.</em></p>
<p>Cards that grant flash, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vedalken Orrery" href="#" target="_blank">Vedalken Orrery</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir" href="#" target="_blank">Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Leyline of Anticipation" href="#" target="_blank">Leyline of Anticipation</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, are very good because they let you attempt to combo off at your opponents' end steps if necessary, or in response to them tapping out. It adds some much needed flexibility to the deck's timing. Needing three separate creature pieces and then something else on top is already asking a lot.</p>
<h2>How Does This <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Princess Yue" href="#" target="_blank">Princess Yue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Commander Deck Win?</h2>
<p>The main way this Princess Yue deck wins is by assembling its combo. It will usually mill all of its opponents out, then break the combo by having the Clone stop reentering, ending the turn, and watching as each opponent decks out in succession. However there are some ways of generating infinite mana in the combo that can win the game on the spot without needing to pass the turn.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Goblin Cannon"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Goblin Cannon: Boom.<br />
Goblin Canon: Squee is hot.</em></p>
<p>It can also use infinitely made tokens to attack for the win, or sac them all into one of several Altars to do an alternate mill strategy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Altar of Dementia"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Phyrexian Altar"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ashnod&#039;s Altar"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The usual suspects.</em></p>
<h2>Princess Yue Commander Deck List</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="My girlfriend won&#039;t stop turning into the moon" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Princess Yue
[/Commander]
[Creatures]
*1 Clever Impersonator
*1 Clone
*1 Drift of Phantasms
*1 Faerie Mastermind
*1 Flesh Duplicate
*1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
*1 Hedron Crab
*1 Mirror Image
*1 Mocking Doppelganger
*1 Ornithopter of Paradise
*1 Phantasmal Image
*1 Phyrexian Metamorph
*1 Ruin Crab
*1 Sage&#039;s Row Denizen
*1 Starfield Vocalist
*1 Stunt Double
*1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
*1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
*1 Tribute Mage
*1 Trinket Mage
*1 Wormfang Newt
*1 Wormfang Turtle
[/Creatures]
[Enchantments]
*1 Dissipation Field
*1 Leyline of Anticipation
*1 Propaganda
[/Enchantments]
[Artifacts]
*1 Altar of Dementia
*1 Altar of the Brood
*1 Arcane Signet
*1 Ashnod&#039;s Altar
*1 Bloodthirsty Blade
*1 Cloudstone Curio
*1 Extraplanar Lens
*1 Genesis Chamber
*1 Goblin Cannon
*1 Liquimetal Torque
*1 Phyrexian Altar
*1 Prismatic Lens
*1 Sapphire Medallion
*1 Sky Diamond
*1 Sol Ring
*1 The Water Crystal
*1 Vedalken Orrery
*1 Waterbending Scroll
*1 Wayfarer&#039;s Bauble
[/Artifacts]
[Instants]
*1 Aetherize
*1 Blue Sun&#039;s Zenith
*1 Consider
*1 Counterspell
*1 Dispel
*1 Evacuation
*1 Into the Flood Maw
*1 Muddle the Mixture
*1 Negate
*1 Opt
*1 Perplexing Test
*1 Pongify
*1 Rapid Hybridization
*1 Remand
*1 Resculpt
*1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
[/Instants]
[Sorceries]
*1 Fabricate
*1 Lórien Revealed
*1 Ponder
*1 Preordain
*1 Sleight of Hand
*1 Solve the Equation
[/Sorceries]
[Planeswalkers]
*1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
[/Planeswalkers]
[Lands]
*1 Agna Qel&#039;a
*1 Castle Vantress
*25 Island
*1 Lonely Sandbar
*1 Mystic Sanctuary
*1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
*1 Riptide Laboratory
*1 Terrain Generator
*1 Urza&#039;s Saga
[/Lands]"></span></div>
<h2>Final Thoughts on the Moon Bounce</h2>
<p>I playtested this deck in <a href="https://edhrec.com/articles/edhrec-guide-to-commander-brackets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brackets 2 through 4</a>, and in my humble opinion, I believe it lands squarely in the Bracket 3 space. It can be strong; in fact I did not lose any games I played with it. But it's susceptible to interaction.</p>
<p>The strength it currently has is that no one really knows how the combo works or what pieces to interact with. If you like combo decks and being the center of attention, you will love this deck. It's a weird combo, and it let's you say, "My girlfriend turned into the moon. That's rough buddy," to yourself over and over again to what I assume will be uproarious laughter. I give you permission to use the joke.</p>
<p>Have a happy holiday season, and please Moon Bounce responsibly!</p>


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My Girlfriend Won't Stop Turning Into the Moon: A Princess Yue Deck Tech