<h6 style="text-align: right;">(<span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant" href="#" target="_blank">Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | art by Yumeko)</h6>
<p>Hello, and welcome back to <em>The Monolith</em>, the series in which I, your intrepid host, try to get the world of Commander players to build more mono-colored decks.</p>
<p>With the dust of <em>Tarkir: Dragonstorm </em>beginning to settle, we can start to look ahead at upcoming sets and theory craft around all the previews we've been shown way, way, way too early. Of all the commanders revealed so far from <em><a href="https://edhrec.com/sets/fin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Final Fantasy</a></em>, there are only two cards that are actual, factual mono. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Zell Dincht" href="#" target="_blank">Zell Dincht</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> seems like an interesting <em>Landfall</em>-based, mono-red commander, which we might tackle in a later article. Seems like there's some combo potential there for sure.</p>
<p>But for this edition of <em>The Monolith </em>we're going to build around something a bit more... mean. It's <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant" href="#" target="_blank">Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant"></div></div>
<h2>Gifts Unwanted</h2>
<p>For the stunningly cheap cost of a single <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>, we get a 1/2 Moogle with lifelink, and it's Stiltzkin's activated ability that we'll be building around in this deck. For <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-2" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>, <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-tap" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> we can have one of our opponents assume control of another target permanent we control. Once they get it, we get to draw a card. Kind of like us receiving payment; we are a merchant, after all.</p>
<p>But for this little market stall we'll be running, we're not exactly aiming to come off as a reputable seller. In fact, we'll be sending our opponents some defective wares on purpose.</p>
<h2>Damaged Goods</h2>
<p>That's right! Today we're building a <a href="https://edhrec.com/tags/donate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donate deck</a> all about giving our opponents cards that you wouldn't want under your control. This is traditionally a deck you'd see with some <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-b" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> in it to get access to all the nasty "deal with the devil" type effects of that color that we could force into the hands of other players.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Harmless Offering"></div></div>
<p>There's definitely other color combos that can make it work, and Jeskai(<span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-u" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-r" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>) commander <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Zedruu the Greathearted" href="#" target="_blank">Zedruu the Greathearted</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the more popular in this archetype, but in mono-white, we're going to need to rifle through the basement of <em>Magic: The Gathering</em> to find some decent targets for our ability, and that, of course, is half the fun of these articles!</p>
<h3>The Archetypal Gift</h3>
<p>There's already quite a few cards that exist in <em>Magic's </em>long history that play by "gifting" things to your opponent's control. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Akroan Horse" href="#" target="_blank">Akroan Horse</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, for example, is a classic card from the original <em>Theros</em> block that might seem terrible to the untrained eye.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Akroan Horse"></div></div>
<p>"A creature I have to give to my opponent? What's the point of that?" The point of course is that the card is a trap that slowly fills your own board with 1/1 tokens as your enemy only gets a measly 0/4 defender.</p>
<p>But there's plenty more where that came from. There's some really fun cursed object style cards that we can very much put into today's deck that fit the theme perfectly.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jinxed Idol"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jinxed Choker"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jinxed Ring"></div></div>
<p>The jinxed cards will be thrown around the table like a hot potato whenever one of our opponents wants to avoid the effect. Normally we'd be a very valid target to take the things back. But with our commander we can just have them leave our control before the trigger goes off, making us a waste of an activation for our competitors.</p>
<p>A handful of artifacts like this in the deck will allow us to sit back and watch the chaos unfold as our opponents argue among themselves over who should take control of the nasty thing next.</p>
<h2>Like a Hole in the Head</h2>
<p>But the true horrors of cards we can force onto our opponents' boards come in the form of things they can't just give away whenever they like. These things will be a constant headache for them. And hopefully, they'll be enough of a drawback that we can potentially win the game whilst our opponents suffer.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Archfiend of the Dross"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Evil Eye of Urborg"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ebon Drake"></div></div>
<p>The reason we normally want to be running black in a deck like this is we get access to cards that are intended to give you a statistical advantage in the short term with under-costed stats and abilities, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Archfiend of the Dross" href="#" target="_blank">Archfiend of the Dross</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. But after a while, they become more of a problem than a boon.</p>
<p>We don't have a huge amount of obvious cards to draw from that fill this archetype in mono-white. And even in general, you need to look at some cards that literally no one plays to find a good selection of cards that fill this niche. Because the cost they come with usually makes them pretty unplayable in standard decks.</p>
<h3>A Great Example of a Bad Card</h3>
<p>An absolute must-include in this deck will be something we can steal from the aforementioned Zedruu lists. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nine Lives" href="#" target="_blank">Nine Lives</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an enchantment that can prevent up to nine instances of damage for its controller. When the ninth source of damage is stopped, and Nine Lives receives its ninth counter, you exile it.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Nine Lives"></div></div>
<p>When Nine Lives leaves the battlefield, its controller loses the game. This honestly isn't a great card on its own, maybe made a little better by a deck that can easily remove counters from its permanents. But now we can gain almost its full benefit and then just as we're about to take a ninth chunk of damage, send it over to an opponent of our choice to lose the game instead!</p>
<p>Not to mention that the card itself has hexproof, so removing it will be very difficult for our opponents, and if they attempt to board wipe all enchantments, you can hoist it onto someone else in response and have them suffer the consequences. If you're feeling petty, probably the board wiper.</p>
<h2>What the Hell Am I Supposed to Do With This?</h2>
<p>Don't worry, the cards we can gift will get far weirder and far more niche. Most white cards don't give you downsides apart from on themselves, so we'll need to be creative.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Enduring Renewal"></div></div>
<p>For example, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Enduring Renewal" href="#" target="_blank">Enduring Renewal</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is what I would call "a pretty bad way to recur your creatures." For <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-2" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> we get the stunning ability of putting any creatures we control that die back into our hand, which ain't bad at all.</p>
<p>The cost, however, is that we not only have to play with our entire hand revealed, we also get a very wacky draw effect. Now, whenever we would draw a card, we instead have to reveal the top card of our library. If it's a creature card, we have to put it into the bin instead.</p>
<p>Wow, that's bad. Unless someone has built a very specific deck to utilize this strange effect, this is going to be a huge pain for our opponents. Although it would go pretty hard in our <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage" href="#" target="_blank">Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck we built in a <a href="https://edhrec.com/articles/mono-white-aristocrats-with-anafenza-unyielding-lineage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous article</a>.</p>
<h3>How About Some Fetching Headwear?</h3>
<p>Our opponents' heads are looking a little cold; perhaps we could help them out with a lovely new hat. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Mindstorm Crown" href="#" target="_blank">Mindstorm Crown</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> will do some annoying chip damage over the course of the game - best placed on a player that's taken a lot of damage early on. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Crown of Doom" href="#" target="_blank">Crown of Doom</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> however will act like an <em>Innistrad </em>style curse that our opponents will be throwing around like our aforementioned jinxed collection.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Grafted Skullcap"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mindstorm Crown"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Crown of Doom"></div></div>
<p>The absolute worst of the bunch has to be <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Grafted Skullcap" href="#" target="_blank">Grafted Skullcap</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, though. You can hear the finger of the monkey's paw curling as a player said, "I need some more card draw." Here you go, now you draw two every turn! And you also discard your entire hand on your end step...</p>
<h3>Who Needs Creatures Anyway?</h3>
<p>It was bad enough that we made one of our opponents never draw creature cards again. At least they get to replay the ones they lose. This next target is going to be even more screwed over, though.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Steel Golem"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Grid Monitor"></div></div>
<p>Courtesy of some very ugly artifact creatures, these lovely items will stop your players from being able to cast creature spells indefinitely! What the hell! I'm sure there's plenty of decks out there that wouldn't be too bothered by this, but you'd be hard pressed to find a deck that doesn't want to play a single creature in a turn - including their commander, by the way.</p>
<h3>Artifacts Are Overrated</h3>
<p>Is someone playing a lot of artifact cards? What if they had to sacrifice one every single turn? <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rust Elemental" href="#" target="_blank">Rust Elemental</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> will see to that.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rust Elemental"></div></div>
<p>Even better though is when we pop one of these guys onto the board of a player who isn't playing any artifacts. Enjoy losing a tenth of your life every turn, and now you don't even get to attack with the creature we gave you...</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Lich&#039;s Tomb"></div></div>
<p>If your opponent is upset about having to take that much damage, you could always offer them an alternative with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Lich&#039;s Tomb" href="#" target="_blank">Lich&#039;s Tomb</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. What a wonderful gift! Now you won't lose the game if you have zero or less life - except you'll be sacrificing a permanent for every single point of damage you would take from now on. And that's permanent by the way, not <em>nonland</em> permanent.</p>
<p>Be sure to gift this just as an opponent is about to eat a big chunk of damage. We don't want them to sacrifice the Tomb right away after a measly one or two damage.</p>
<h3>A Secret Burn Deck?</h3>
<p>White isn't exactly know for being able to play direct damage against players. I'm sure there's strange old cards out there that I'm not aware of that'll do it, but this special gift allows us to do something similar.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Bronze Bombshell"></div></div>
<p>Who designed this card? This is so bizarre. They're making these in <em>Ravnica</em>? Man, old <em>Magic</em> is weird.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mishra&#039;s War Machine"></div></div>
<p>Speaking of old <em>Magic, </em>if we want our opponents to take some damage, why not gift them this terrible old contraption?</p>
<h2>Does This Business Have Legs?</h2>
<p>This was truly one of the strangest decks I've theory-crafted here on <em>The Monolith. </em>Usually when you build these odd contraptions, out of color identity and pushing the boundaries, you at least find a few cards that seem like slam dunks. And whilst there's certainly a couple of options for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant" href="#" target="_blank">Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, he does seem like he's going to stay a pretty niche commander.</p>
<p>If you were building this cursed collection of curiosities, what strange old cards would you be running? I'd love to know down in the comments below! But whilst you're working on those, I'll see you on the next edition of <em>The Monolith</em>, your home for strange and wonderful mono-colored decks!</p>
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<h6 style="text-align: right;">(<span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://www.adamrex.com/">Adam Rex</a>)</h6>
<h1>Technically Playable - Celestial Kirin</h1>
<p>Welcome to <em>Technically Playable</em>, where our mission statement is "Every commander is <em>Technically</em> playable" (the best kind of playable). The way this works is every article will have a commander generated using EDHREC's random button, I'll talk through the card and then write about how we can build around it!</p>
<p>This week's random commander is: <div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Celestial Kirin"></div></div></p>
<p>Based on the number of times I've seen this card pop up while randomly hitting the random button on EDHREC (for non-article-related reasons), and based on the number I pulled from <em>Mystery Boosters</em>, I think this article was inevitable. And honestly, I think building this deck in paper will eventually happen too because there is some very cool tech that has been released for this commander in the last few years.</p>
<h2>That's the Spirit(s)!</h2>
<p>Celestial Kirin is part of a mono-colored cycle from the original <em>Kamigawa</em> block that all trigger and have an effect when you cast a Spirit or an Arcane spell. Luckily for us, there have been a lot of good Spirits printed across the last few years. But there is a caveat to this. Because <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> cares about the mana cost of the cards that you play, it's important to make sure that you are loading your deck with cards that hit the most prominent mana values in the format. For this, we can use EDHREC's <a href="https://edhrec.com/top">Top Cards</a> section on the site to see which mana values are the most common.</p>
<p>In the top two rows of EDHREC's top cards (14 cards) there are only three permanents, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Sol Ring" href="#" target="_blank">Sol Ring</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Arcane Signet" href="#" target="_blank">Arcane Signet</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dimir Signet" href="#" target="_blank">Dimir Signet</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. When you expand this to the top four rows (24 cards) you get into a lot more permanents, twelve in total (including the three mentioned previously). Of these twelve permanents, nine of them have a mana value two, two have a mana value one and one of a mana value of three. Based on this, it's clear that mana values of one, two and three are key, and we should have a critical mass of spells with the rest of the cards being spread more evenly across the other values. The mana value we want to avoid the most however should be four as that would result in destroying <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>Probably the best two mana Spirit is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Selfless Spirit" href="#" target="_blank">Selfless Spirit</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> not only is it a flier that hits the two mana value that we're after, but it also allows us to sacrifice it when casting another spell to protect our own board - I'll go into more detail about this in a later section. Regarding the other mana values, there are a ton of great options like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nikko-Onna" href="#" target="_blank">Nikko-Onna</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> which not only wipes the board of mana value three permanents, but also removes another enchantment, all packaged with the ability to return itself to your hand.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Selfless Spirit"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Nikko-Onna"></div></div>
<p>You also have <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kami of False Hope" href="#" target="_blank">Kami of False Hope</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> a white <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Spore Frog" href="#" target="_blank">Spore Frog</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> that will remove any one mana value cards from the board and protect you from combat damage for a turn. Probably the best two cards for to ensure you hit every mana value are <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ugin&#039;s Conjurant" href="#" target="_blank">Ugin&#039;s Conjurant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate" href="#" target="_blank">Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. These cards have <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-x" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> and <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-x" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-x" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> as their mana costs respectively, giving you flexibility to hit any mana value that has problematic permanents in play.</p>
<p>As well as the cards themselves, there are also some ways to support the Spirit theme and to make sure you have access to any mana value you need. Of course you have <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Herald&#039;s Horn" href="#" target="_blank">Herald&#039;s Horn</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and your typical typal support, but for Spirits and Arcane spells in particular you have <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Long-Forgotten Gohei" href="#" target="_blank">Long-Forgotten Gohei</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> which supports both elements of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>'s focus. However, the most important card to support <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is the often overlooked <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Citanul Flute" href="#" target="_blank">Citanul Flute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. The reason why most decks don't want this artifact is because it has quite a prohibitive cost (<span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-5" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> mana followed by <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-x" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> mana just to put a creature into your hand is a lot) but <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>'s ability benefits from having access to specific mana costs at specific times. Being able to pick and choose what you have access to is incredibly useful for our deck.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ugin&#039;s Conjurant"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Citanul Flute"></div></div>
<h2>Celestial Kirin? More like Celestial <em>Winning</em>!</h2>
<p>Horrific pun aside, you <strong>do</strong> need a win condition in a Commander deck, and that can be tough when your deck is focused around blowing up the entire world every single turn. The way around this is to find win conditions that are either a high mana cost that you likely won't cast very often, a win condition that benefits from removing your own creatures or something very niche like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Barren Glory" href="#" target="_blank">Barren Glory</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. For <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Barren Glory" href="#" target="_blank">Barren Glory</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, I won't go into more detail because I won't be able to do it justice like <a href="https://commandersherald.com/going-brokkos-celestial-kirin-barren-glory-sweep-tribal/?utm_source=edhrec&amp;utm_medium=article_preview">this Commander's Herald article did back in 2021</a>.</p>
<p>Moving on though, the main win condition for this deck is probably through amassing a huge army of tokens and attacking. This is because you're unlikely to play and zero mana value Spirits or Arcane spells so they are safe from your own board wipes and the cards you want to play to make tokens are mana values that you don't want to play very often. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens" href="#" target="_blank">Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a great example of this as it creates a 3/3 every single time you play a Spirit and dodges most of your Spirit's mana values at a whopping seven mana value itself. The weakness of this is obvious however, as it has no built-in protection so playing it on turn seven and nothing else.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can also use <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Field of Souls" href="#" target="_blank">Field of Souls</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Court of Grace" href="#" target="_blank">Court of Grace</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or even <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Field of the Dead" href="#" target="_blank">Field of the Dead</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> (depending on your mana base) to create an army of tokens. These are great options because they have a mana value of four, this is important as you'll likely avoid playing too many four cost cards since they will also destroy your commander. Furthermore, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Field of the Dead" href="#" target="_blank">Field of the Dead</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is just incredibly broken since it dodges everything outside of land destruction, and we all know what Commander players thing about that.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Barren Glory"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Field of Souls"></div></div>
<h2>Keeping Your Spirits Alive</h2>
<p>While there are a ton of good ways to win while destroying your own permanents, one of the best ways to win through board wipes is to keep your stuff alive through them. There are some obvious options like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Teferi&#039;s Protection" href="#" target="_blank">Teferi&#039;s Protection</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Flawless Maneuver" href="#" target="_blank">Flawless Maneuver</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> but here at <em>Technically Playable</em> we like to look at some more niche cards.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Emeria Shepherd" href="#" target="_blank">Emeria Shepherd</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the most underrated white cards from what I've seen, but it has incredible value potential. Using cards like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wayfarer&#039;s Bauble" href="#" target="_blank">Wayfarer&#039;s Bauble</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Evolving Wilds" href="#" target="_blank">Evolving Wilds</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> you can turbo out a ton of lands allowing you to even overtake some of a green deck's ramp. This is also important when trying to reanimate creatures that have been destroyed by <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. If you combine the Shepherd with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Roaming Throne" href="#" target="_blank">Roaming Throne</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> you can even use the plains from <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Evolving Wilds" href="#" target="_blank">Evolving Wilds</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to bring back a creature and the Wilds repeatedly to imitate <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Living Death" href="#" target="_blank">Living Death</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>You can also back up your Spirit package with indestructible creatures. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Myojin of Cleansing Fire" href="#" target="_blank">Myojin of Cleansing Fire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> fits this deck really well as it is both indestructible and can be used as a board wipe when you need it. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Avacyn, Angel of Hope" href="#" target="_blank">Avacyn, Angel of Hope</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is also an excellent option and while she is expensive to cast returning her with something like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Emeria Shepherd" href="#" target="_blank">Emeria Shepherd</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Late to Dinner" href="#" target="_blank">Late to Dinner</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can help to get her out much earlier to protect your other creatures. One of my favorite combinations is Avacyn and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cloudsteel Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Cloudsteel Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to effectively have an indestructible <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Platinum Angel" href="#" target="_blank">Platinum Angel</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>Finally you have a couple of even more niche options. Since it's a Spirits deck, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kindred Boon" href="#" target="_blank">Kindred Boon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an amazing option as you can choose "Spirit" and make any of them indestructible for the low cost of two mana. This also combos with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Myojin of Cleansing Fire" href="#" target="_blank">Myojin of Cleansing Fire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to give you a repeatable board wipe. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Gideon Blackblade" href="#" target="_blank">Gideon Blackblade</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another, cheaper option allows you to choose your most important creature and keep it alive for one turn.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Emeria Shepherd"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Myojin of Cleansing Fire"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kindred Boon"></div></div>
<p>As with all <em>Technically Playable</em> articles, this was a very quick look at <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> as a commander, and a few of the cards that can really make a deck with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> as the commander tick. Let me know in the comments below if you play <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, if you want to build a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Celestial Kirin" href="#" target="_blank">Celestial Kirin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck, or even if you just enjoyed this article!</p>
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Technically Playable - Celestial Kirin

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