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Monk Gyatso
Legendary Creature — Human Monk
Whenever another creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, you may airbend that creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)
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“Protect your creatures to cast them repeatedly for cheap via airbend.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Combo
Blink, Tokens, Voltron
Strategy
Monk Gyatso rewards you for protecting your creatures with targeted spells and abilities—both your own and your opponents'. The core gameplan is to build a board of utility creatures, then repeatedly target them with cheap cantrips, protection spells, or effects like +1/+1 counters to trigger airbend and exile them. This lets you recast those creatures for just two mana, generating huge mana advantage and enabling multiple action-packed turns.
You'll pack the deck with efficient creatures that have strong enters-the-battlefield effects or abilities you want to reuse repeatedly. Cards like Ephemerate, Soulherder, and protection spells become mana engines. The win comes from either grinding value until you overwhelm the table, or by assembling a flicker-combo that chains triggers into infinite recast loops. This is a tempo-focused value deck that rewards tight play and creative targeting.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors and mana rocks—use Cultivate, Rampant Growth, and basic interaction like Brave the Elements or Blessed Alliance instead of premium staples.
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