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Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing
Legendary Creature — Bird Spirit · {3}{U}{U} · Blue commander
Flying
When Wan Shi Tong enters, target nonland permanent's owner puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
Whenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."
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What Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen Wan Shi Tong enters, target nonland permanent's owner puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- effects that put cards into libraries — tuck removal, Brainstorm and shuffle-backs (each makes two Spirits)
- blink for its tuck enter trigger
The Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 14× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 7× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
- Deadeye Navigator6 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Snapcaster Mage2 mana
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian2 mana
- Archaeomancer4 mana
- Urza, Lord High Artificer4 mana
- Aether Channeler3 mana
- Spellseeker3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Master of Etherium3 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Favorable Winds2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Combos with Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing + Sensei's Divining Top + Kindred Discovery + Ashnod's Altar67 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing + Sage Of The Falls + Library Of Leng34 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing + Sensei's Divining Top + Ashnod's Altar + The Reality Chip33 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing + Sensei's Divining Top + Kindred Discovery + Phyrexian Altar32 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing + Sensei's Divining Top + Phyrexian Altar + The Reality Chip16 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing + Sensei's Divining Top + Ashnod's Altar + Mystic Forge13 decks
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