Hei Bai, Forest Guardian
Hei Bai, Forest Guardian Commander Deck
Hei Bai, Forest Guardian tutors Shrine enchantments directly onto the battlefield, rapidly assembling a critical mass of legendary enchantments from both the Honden and Sanctum cycles. Each Shrine generates incremental advantages every upkeep — drawing cards, dealing damage, draining life, creating tokens, and gaining life — while Sanctum of All causes the deck to trigger all of these effects simultaneously and search out additional Shrines, with cards like Weaver of Harmony and Yarok, the Desecrated further multiplying the number of triggers the deck generates each upkeep. The deck leans heavily into blinking Hei Bai to repeatedly tutor Shrines into play, using enchantress draw engines and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain to keep the board loaded, eventually overwhelming opponents through the avalanche of per-upkeep effects and a growing army of Spirit tokens produced by Hei Bai's activated ability.
Decklist
- Acrobatic Maneuver
- Airbender Ascension
- Cloudshift
- Daydream
- Ephemerate
- Essence Flux
- Flicker of Fate
- Justiciar's Portal
- Momentary Blink
- Personify
- Planar Incision
- Siren's Ruse
- Skybind
- Slip On the Ring
- Soulherder
- Splash Portal
- Entity Tracker
- Setessan Champion
- Branchloft Pathway
- Breeding Pool
- Canopy Vista
- City of Brass
- Command Tower
- Dreamroot Cascade
- Exotic Orchard
- Fabled Passage
- 4× Forest
- Hallowed Fountain
- Hinterland Harbor
- 3× Island
- Mountain
- Overgrown Farmland
- Overgrown Tomb
- Path of Ancestry
- 3× Plains
- Razorverge Thicket
- Sandsteppe Citadel
- Seaside Citadel
- Stomping Ground
- Sunpetal Grove
- Swamp
- Temple Garden
- The World Tree
- White Lotus Hideout
- Windswept Heath
- Blessed Respite
- Sphere of Safety
- Arcane Signet
- Birds of Paradise
- Bloom Tender
- Cryptolith Rite
- Elvish Spirit Guide
- Farseek
- Fellwar Stone
- Ignoble Hierarch
- Kamahl's Druidic Vow
- Nature's Lore
- Noble Hierarch
- Rampant Growth
- Sanctum Weaver
- Simian Spirit Guide
- Sol Ring
- Three Visits
- Dance of the Manse
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Assassin's Trophy
- Blasphemous Act
- Counterspell
- Path to Exile
- Swords to Plowshares
- Crescent Island Temple
- Go-Shintai of Ancient Wars
- Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty
- Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
- Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose
- Honden of Infinite Rage
- Honden of Life's Web
- Honden of Night's Reach
- Honden of Seeing Winds
- Kyoshi Island Plaza
- Northern Air Temple
- Sanctum of Calm Waters
- Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest
- Sanctum of Stone Fangs
- Southern Air Temple
- The Spirit Oasis
- Sanctum of All
- Starfield Vocalist
- Weaver of Harmony
- Yarok, the Desecrated
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
- Sterling Grove