Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing

Gameplan

Wan Shi Tong turns Magic's most mundane card-selection effects into a token engine: every Brainstorm, scry, fateseal, or tuck spell spits out a pair of evasive Spirits. You grind value with cantrips and library manipulation while assembling a wide, flying-ish board, then close with anthems or a single big swing. The ETB tuck also doubles as flexible interaction, neutralizing a threat or hatebear while the commander sticks.

Key Cards

• Brainstorm — Draws three and puts two cards back into your library, triggering Wan Shi Tong for a free pair of Spirits.
• Jace, the Mind Sculptor — Fateseal and Brainstorm modes both put cards into a library every turn, making tokens while controlling the game.
• Cyclonic Rift — The premier mono-blue reset that lets your wide Spirit board swing in for the kill unopposed.
• Coat of Arms — Massive payoff that turns your tribal Spirit tokens into a lethal army out of nowhere.
• Ephemerate — Blinks Wan Shi Tong to re-trigger the tuck removal and reset it around removal cheaply.
• Intruder Alarm — Pairs with mass token production and tap effects to enable powerful, sometimes infinite, untap loops.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Mana Crystal, Mana Vault) and free interaction (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship) to keep the engine online against faster tables. Lean into a blink package—Conjurer's Closet, Deadeye Navigator, Eldrazi Displacer—to abuse the ETB tuck as repeatable removal, and pick up token doublers plus more anthems to convert your Spirit production into faster kills. Round it out with Cyclonic Rift, Pongify-style cheap removal, and tutors like Mystical Tutor to find your payoffs consistently.