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Yosei, the Morning Star — Commander Hub · Mythicwyrm

Yosei, the Morning Star

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

Yosei, the Morning Star

Mana value6EDHREC#9,780

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The Commander

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Gameplan

Strengths

Weaknesses

Key Cards

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Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Lock one or all opponents out of untapping, then win with the evasive 5/5 body and incidental beaters
▸Infinite sacrifice loop draining or locking the table while you swing for lethal
▸Stax-grind the table into inaction, then close with a board wipe followed by your protected threats
▸Combat damage through repeated flying attacks while opponents are tapped down

Archetypes

Stax / Prison — Her death trigger denies an opponent's untap step and taps permanents, which is the core of a tap-down lock when looped.
Aristocrats — She wants to die repeatedly, rewarding free sacrifice outlets and death-payoff engines.
Reanimator / Blink — White recursion and flicker effects bring her back over and over to re-trigger the lock.
Combo — Reveillark + Karmic Guide + a sac outlet creates an infinite untap-lock to fully prison-board a player.

Combos

Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift of Immortality + Ashnod's Altar
→ Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock
Yosei, the Morning Star + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar
→ Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock
Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift of Immortality + Phyrexian Altar
→ Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock
Yosei, the Morning Star + Gift of Immortality + Altar of Dementia
→ Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock
Yosei, the Morning Star + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar
→ Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock

Combos via Commander Spellbook.

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Flying

When Yosei dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.

Yosei is a Stax-leaning prison commander: repeatedly sacrifice and recur her so a single opponent skips untap steps while five of their permanents stay tapped, effectively locking them out of the game. You grind value with white's strong recursion and sacrifice loops, then either hard-lock the table one player at a time or pivot to a combo finish. Early turns build mana and recursion engines; mid-game you assemble a sac outlet plus a reanimation/blink loop.

Creates a brutal soft-lock when looped with a sac outlet and recursion (skip untap + tap five permanents)

Cheap to recur in mono-white via reanimation, blink, and graveyard recursion

Evasive 5/5 flyer that pressures life totals even outside of combos

Mono-white gives access to the best stax, taxes, and board wipes to back up the lock

The 'Yosei lock' only neutralizes one opponent at a time, leaving the other two free in a four-player pod

Mono-white is color-screwed on card draw and ramp

Vulnerable to graveyard hate that shuts off recursion loops

Needs multiple pieces (sac outlet + recursion) before the engine comes online; clunky when assembling

Goblin Bombardment

Free, repeatable sacrifice outlet that lets you ping Yosei to trigger the lock at instant speed.

Free sac outlet that fuels the loop and generates mana to recast or reanimate Yosei.

Returns Yosei from the graveyard and pairs with Reveillark/blink to create the classic recursion engine.

Loops back Yosei and Karmic Guide on death, completing an infinite untap-lock combo with a sac outlet.

Repeatable recursion of Yosei and cheap stax pieces every combat.

Emiel the Blue

Repeatable blink outlet to flicker Yosei or re-trigger value creatures and reset the lock package.

Teferi's Protection

Phases you out to protect your engine and life total from a desperate alpha strike.

Tighten the combo package: run Reveillark + Karmic Guide + a free sac outlet (Goblin Bombardment, Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar) to make the untap-lock reliable and ideally infinite. Add mono-white ramp and card advantage (Smothering Tithe, Mind Stone, Welcoming Vampire, Esper Sentinel) plus protection like Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention-style effects. For higher power, layer in stax taxers (Thalia, Drannith Magistrate, Archon of Emeria) so the locked-down opponents stay locked while you race the rest of the table.