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Yosei, the Morning Star
Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit · {4}{W}{W} · White commander
Flying
When Yosei dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.
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What Yosei, the Morning Star 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 · deathWhen Yosei dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Yosei, the Morning Star deck needs
Plays as death value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
The Yosei, the Morning Star deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Yosei, the Morning Star
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.
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Fanatical Devotion3 mana
- Martyr's Cause3 mana
- Bound by Moonsilver3 mana
- High Market0 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Akroma's Will4 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- The Wind Crystal4 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Toby, Beastie Befriender3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Yosei, the Morning Star
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yosei, the Morning Star is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift Of Immortality + Ashnod's Altar288 decks
- Yosei, the Morning Star + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar237 decks
- Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift Of Immortality + Phyrexian Altar153 decks
- Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift Of Immortality + Altar Of Dementia139 decks
- Yosei, the Morning Star + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar120 decks
- Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift Of Immortality + Viscera Seer88 decks