My primary form of gameplay on Arena has been draft and brawl. I enjoy brewing the occasional standard or historic deck, but those decks only keep me entertained for so long. Brawl has been a fantastic way for me to complete the daily quests, earn gold, and pay for drafts. While completing one of these quests, I needed to build a deck that could cast white and blue spells. As such, I built Yorion and had a ton of fun.
The fun and success I had playing Yorion in brawl made me curious what the legendary serpent could do as an EDH commander, but I had a dilemma. Should I build Yorion as Mono White or Azorious? I took to the twitterverse for an answer.
Based on a narrow margin, I decided to dive in and build a Mono White Yorion deck, and while doing so, I realized that both Lurrus and Zirda were also interesting commanders that could be built as mono white decks. While building these decks, I came to a frustrating conclusion.
If you’re someone who is tired of hearing about hybrid mana in commander, please feel free to scroll down a bit to the deck lists below.
This is what makes these companion designs slightly frustrating to me. Building these decks was a fairly unique experience in the context of mono white. Prior to the printing of Livio, Oathsworn Sentinel, mono white didn’t have a general that could blink other permanents similar to Yorion. The same can be said for the unique abilities of both Lurrus and Zirda in the context of white. This isn’t to suggest that these companions should have been mono white, but these commanders do represent the potential of the mono white color pie that has yet to be expressed in mono white commanders. There has been a lot of frustration this year about white printings, and while some of it has been unfair, some of it is justified. Clearly there is potential in the white color pie and building these hybrid commanders has opened my eyes to some of that potential that hasn’t been tapped into yet.
That said, if you’re looking to explore the capability of a Mono White deck with some powerful commanders, take these lists for a spin.
Yorion, Sky Nomad
You’ll notice that each one of these decks are “all-in” on their commanders. This deck is all about creating a loop with Yorion and another exile effect such as Charming Prince or Flickerwisp. Once this loop is created, the deck simply oozes value, drawing cards, exiling creatures, or ramping with each cycle. Additionally, you can time the cycles to create one sided board wipes. I also wanted to add one additional hybrid card in the 99 of each deck. For this deck, I added Worldpurge, which can be mean enough on its own, but if you set up your flickers right you can protect your board from the Worldpurge and get way ahead of your opponents. If you want to embrace this space further you can also add Dimensional Breach to the deck.
Decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/951490#Mono_White_Yorion
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Building a deck around cards with converted mana cost two or less is still a surprisingly open ended restriction. What I noticed while working through my options was that most of the enablers that care about auras and equipment were 2 cmc or less. Kor Spiritdancer, Sram, Senior Artificer, Stoneforge Mystic, and Relic Seeker are just a few examples of the enablers that can be recast with Lurrus. Combine that with the fact that Lurrus can help take away some of the card disadvantage of auras and it was a logical strategy to try. As stated above, these decks are built heavily around the commander, as such a majority of the deck can be recast by Lurrus with the other cards in the deck being powerful payoffs.
Decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/951510#Mono_White_Lurrus
Zirda, the Dawnbreaker
Searching for cards with activated abilities is tricky, but luckily Scryfall is an amazing sight. I decided to take Zirda in a token direction. This deck is probably the least reliant on its commander because Zirda simply makes all of the cards hyper-efficient. The deck looks to create a board of tokens which can then be turned into a powerful army with anthem effects like Gerrard’s Battle Cry. Additionally, for some added fun I included an interesting combo into this list and it’s not Basalt Monolith. Using Waves of Aggression (the hybrid card I included in this list), Slab Hammer, and Sword of Feast of Famine, you can generate a lot of combat steps. If you also have Sword of the Animist out, you can maintain the number of lands you have rather than having to lose one with each combat step.
Decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/955497#Mono_White_Zirda
I do hope we see more mono white commanders with abilities as unique and flexible as these hybrid commanders, and the designs of 2020 make me believe it's more of a “when” than an “if”. Until then, hybrid commanders will make an acceptable stand-in for those who are comfortable setting their own restrictions.
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