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Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Snake Druid · {1}{G} · Green commander
What Shigeki, Jukai Visionary actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{1}{G}, {T}, Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard.
- Activated ability{X}{X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- Keyword · channelchannel
What a Shigeki, Jukai Visionary deck needs
Plays as graveyard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
- haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands, and it bounces itself)
- lands and nonlegendary cards that want to be in the graveyard (channel returns X of them; the tap ability mills three and ramps one)
The Shigeki, Jukai Visionary deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 10× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
- Ellywick Tumblestrum4 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Bear Umbra4 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Copperhorn Scout1 mana
- Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
- Instill Energy1 mana
- Nature's Chosen1 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Grapple with the Past2 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
Combos with Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shigeki, Jukai Visionary is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary + Regrowth + Early Harvest831 decks
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary + Regrowth + Rude Awakening754 decks
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary + Regrowth + Turnabout74 decks
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary + Auroral Procession + Early Harvest24 decks
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary + Auroral Procession + Reset15 decks
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