Sasaya Orochi Ascendant Budget Big Mana Commander Deck Tech 

I have had a Sasaya deck for some time now, I once managed to have 40 40/40 Hydras at one point. I won that game.

LOL I actually built this deck a few weeks ago. Sasaya is a real hidden gem in mono-green. Some of my favorite highlights from prior games: - Opponent casts a board-wipe and I use Kamahl, Fist of Krosa to animate all opponents' lands in response - Ramping into a 12+ lands, casting The Great Aurora, getting 10 lands back, and immediately flipping Sasaya - Patron of the Oorochi + Lightning Greaves + Temur Sabertooth = even more absurd amounts of green mana

What an awesome Idea, DJ. Love this budget build. Thanks for naming notable upgrades.

Saw you on command zone and been watching you ever since! Love your enthusiasm and great job on your videos here and on command zone!

I love this deck idea, and I think I'll build it. Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoy all your deck techs.

A few recommendations I know this a budget deck so cards like sylvan library are out but, you are still missing some really key cards to this deck. Mainly this deck is nearly nonfunctional without infinite hand size. Having 7 lands in your hand implies that at best you might have 1-3 nonland cards when you are finally able to flip this commander, if your maxium hand size is 7. Thus this deck more than any other deck needs cards like Praetor's Counsel currently around 3.50, Library of Leng 1 dollar to 1.50, spellbook less than 1 dollar. Also cards like mind's eye currently running around 2 dollars are amazing for this deck mainly as a lot of the time before you flip your commander you are just passing your turn as you have almost all land's in hand. So card's like mind's eye are amazing as they both give you something to do with your free mana but also helps propel you towards flipping your commander and having something to do afterward. Not to mention one of the best cards to add to think deck is sands of delirium, when you are able to generate upwards of 100 mana very easily it becomes an insta mill/kill card. Plus if you are ever able to upgrade it with seedborn muse it becomes a near auto win as mill every player during their upkeep. Lastly I would recommend playing Centaur Glade over one of the other big mana pay offs that is a creature. Mainly as enchantments are usually harder to kill this is an easily repeatable ability and makes 3/3 for 4 instead of something like jade mage who easily dies and makes 1/1 for 3. If anything though I would ditch Hero's bane first their are just way to many better hydra's and pay offs as it lacks trample so no mater how big he is a single 1/1 is just as good as he is. I tried to keep my recommendations still in a budget range.

As per usual, I see your deck techs and get inspired. And budget too!

Love it! Been subscribed for awhile, now a Patreon!

Yup. This is what I truly didn't need. I wanted a big mana deck and your build brought it home. Thanks. Minor changes, but bought it. Dropped Compass because none were cheap enough, the one that was disappeared out of my cart. Added The Great Aurora, but over 90% of this build was yours. Kept Nissa and Kamahl because they are ideed worth fitting. I may come back for Lifeblood Hydra. Thank you again. This truly is one of my favorite "fair" explosive decks.

I know that it's 15$ but this deck needs Helix Pinnacle. It's just too hilarious.

Looks fun ! I'll git it a try. Thk you !

Finally I'm off work and I can relax and listen to DJs honey voice describe wicked cool commander things.

Evolution Charm is a 2 mana instant that tutors a basic land to your hand, But after Sasaya has flipped it can recall a creature from the graveyard or give a creature flying. So it's useful at any stage of the game. And it's cheap.

Any update on when the Kestia, the cultivator deck tech comes out? I remember in the video you mentioned you would be creating a separate video for her and I've been really looking forward to it

I can't believe how funny this is. I LITERALLY just bought my Sasaya deck, and when I come back home, boom, a video about Sasaya XD Thanks for the ideas, I needed other suggestions for it

holy crap, DJ. I made this deck after watching your video here and played it for the first time last night. Even after my table of opponents disrupted me flipping Sasaya a few times I ended up with a turn of 45 45/45s and a Genesys Hydra for 31 ALL IN THE SAME TURN. It was amazing. So much fun to play. I am definitely doing to add Akroma's Memorial and Concordant Crossroads to make this an insane deck of fun.

I have a friend that runs this commander. It's a super fun deck and it's bonkers once it gets rolling

I have a rosheen commander just like this, so I definitely might want to run this!

Lemme get this straight. Once flipped each forest taps for the amount of forest that I have on the field right? For instance if I tap a forest and I have 10 forest , I have 10 mana each forest?

Horn of Greed and Ghost Town, classic.

Don't know if it's really feasible or not, but I'd really love to see a video of how you create a deck. Like the process you go through and all that. The theory crafting is one of my favorite parts of magic, and I actually had a friend ask me to show him the kinda stuff I normally do. Figured a video like that could be helpful for many players, new and old.

That's my monogreen deck! Sasaya gets VERY silly when you get to flip it.

appreciate the budget builds

This deck is so sweet, and we recently got dryad greenseeker which seems like a perfect upgrade.

Not sure if it is still budget, but 'Life and Limb' with 'Sporemound' does a lot of what this deck wants to do in late game.

this is such a great deck :D

I clicked on this video hoping to see Storm Cauldron. THANK YOU!!! I put it in my Azusa deck, and it is OP. I actually played it (SC) today in a pod and got the win. The only opponent remaining had enough mana to recast Zacama, but I hit 'em with the Cauldron. GG's.

Love this deck :)

Excellent. Fun!

DJ. Love the deck. You've inspired me to build it myself. Just curious if you considered putting in Scouting Trek or Khalni Gem?

awesome i just built a sasaya deck a couple weeks ago

This...looks extremely fun.

My gosh, I never noticed how powerful Sasaya is. ô.O And so many ways to go with her! - Stuff the deck with your favorite fatties (Eldrazi?) and enough card draw (e.g. Tower of Fortunes). Stompy time! Such a list can even be build on the tightest budget! - How about alternative win conditions? Helix Pinnacle has already been mentioned, but nobody will expect a Whetstone + Doubling Cube + Gaea's Blessing combo. This should even work with Genesis Wave! - Or you fill the deck with the most inefficient jank and just have fun. Humiliate your friends by killing them with Magma Mine + Salvaging Station! Love your content DJ, keep it up! =)

Man I do love a good lands deck... 10/10 selling me on this commander

The god damn lick in the music

Awsome deck great idea for making more budget decks it would be awsome if you did a sieres of decks like this. PS what this song? It says great days in the description but it's not

As long as the mono-white fun police isn’t there to ruin the day, this deck is great.

I was looking for win conditions in my tatyovah deck...and you just gave me all of them. Reliably having 20-25 mana on turn 15...and now all of them are elemental creatures and I now I have 50 damage...and then beastmasters ascension...oh man

I would totally include a Gaea's Blessing so you don't have to count the size of your library when you Genesis Wave :P (Also, first comment so: amazing channel, I want to start brewing and playing commander just because of it)

You should make a playlist on your channel for budget deck techs. they can be hard to find and it would be useful if you had one.

I like patron of orochi for this deck untap all green creature and forest is great

i had a Sasaya deck in the past too, with crazy wincons like hellix pinnacle, but in the end, it felt a little dumb, because you did practically nothing but taking lands out of your deck until you manage to flip Sasaya and win the game in that same turn or the next. I finally decided to switch Sasaya with another Kamigawa legend, Azusa, and the deck became more interactive and fun overall. I´m not saying Sasaya is a bad commander at all, it can make HUGE amounts of mana really fast, but it felt kinda linear and boring to play the deck several times. Juat my opinion, great video anyways, DJ, love your content

I need to add Sasaya to my Kruphix deck

I watched Jeremy Noell use this guy. Insaaaaane how fast he pulled this puppy off. Shame he didn’t get any big stompy fellas to clean up.

Could we get a non budget version of this deck please.

My omnath deck is going going to get some lovely tweaks out of this...

i made a sasaya deck for $15, it’s really bad, but you feed off of others pity and sometimes have a really explosive turn and it has more than payed for its self in fun, maybe not wins, but fun for sure

Would the great aurora work in this deck?

@Jumbo Commander The music in the description still dosent Match the one that’s in the video, I think you’re posting the wrong link 😅

Omnath, Locus of Mana might be a worthy include here

Sweet

Great video. First, I frowned upon this commander, thinking "neat, but lands don't win the game"... For everyone planning on building this deck: you should absolutely include defensive options like Constant Mists, Heroic Intervention, Blossoming Defense etc. It's not fun if your game plan relies on your commander doing its thing - but getting picked off every time. People play tons of removal and wipes.

This deck needs more Jolrael, Empress of Beasts (in place of Embodiment of Insight) and Elderscale Wurm (for your Squall Line win-con), but I love it!

What tier Patreons is the give away available to?

How would Sasaya and Mana reflection work?

Oh I love this, So much mana 😂😂😂

Big mana energy

Flippidy dippidy 😂

wait a second. could this deck trigger... Could it trigger... the most mana intensive hability ever made... of... *spawnsire of ulamog* ? *starts to throw my colorless eldrazi collection into the game*

6:38 besides Yavimaya Elder is bugged IRL and the card you draw is ALWAYS a land heh

On a side note, Patron of the Orochi (on flavor too) to untap all your Forests and make EVEN MORE MANA

Wow what a weird card...i never knew it even existed. I can't help but wonder who even came up with it. I mean there is no way for it to have been useful in the Kamigawa standard or Modern or any other format for that matter. And commander was not a thing back then if i recall correctly. Tons of people must have been super disappointed to see this as their rare from boosters. Now as far as the deck goes i find it hilarious, creative, fun and unpredictable (let's be honest here none would expect to see such a deck). Ofc casting Nantuko Cultivator and dumping all your lands is a huge risk cause an enchantment removal will set u back quite a few turns to manage to re-flip your commander. At least u will have drawn several cards so there is that. You did say that at turn 7 u can flip Sasaya but how reliably does that happen? I see there are plenty of cards to get lands on hand but does that happen often?

Hey DJ I love the content, but would you consider posting the lists on both tcgplayer and tappedout? I get that you're sponsored by tcgplayer, which is sweet, but it's much easier to go through the deck list when it's on tappedout. Thanks for the content regardless!

Kinda want to do this commander now - though with most of the rest of the deck being different. Don't oversell 25 25/25's. In my Vorinclex deck I can do like 8 trillion damage per person on turn 4 (no infinite).

That's always chafed my willy... You don't "flip" those cards, you turn them upside down.

Where is "laughing hyena"?

21:37 actually with seven lands on the battlefield you get 42 mana because Sasaya says "add one mana of that type to your mana pool for each OTHER land you control with the same name.

I have a friend that plays borborygmous who uses storm cauldron and horn. It's so good I hate it, haha.

Holy shit, someone actually used the word "exponentially" correctly!

Opponent plays heartless summoning. You play kamahl. opponent cries.

Dammit! I was thinking of building a deck like this & thought I was the only one lol. This deck looks like one of the biggest asshole decks out there & it's right up my ally I would throw in Omnath as well 😏😏 Great video DJ keep them coming

I am disappointed you didn't include Boundless Realms. Could be super spicy with Cauldron.

How do you protect your commander as it's a enchantment and people play a lot of Enchantment removal

Would you ever consider to make pauper Commander deck?

But my commander games do end before turn 7. Anything after that and I start to get bored.

Cool vid, but it's pronounced sa-sa-ya, not sa-say-a. I tried putting her in my Damia EDH deck in the off chance I'd get her to flip, but she really requires you to build around her... and enchantments are not that safe if your playgroup plays enough removal hahaha.

I prefer Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer for a mono green land ramp general. But thats not say anything bad about this Sasaya deck build

See a new jumbo commander video Me:mehhhh *Looks at the title* "Sasaya budget EDH" *Rushes toward my laptop* Me: *BUYING ALL THESE CARDS RIGHT NOW*

You missed The Great Aurora

random comment but did you change your mic or am i just used to listening to you via the command zone? your voice sounds different and i like the past voice better

I love budget and cheap style decks. Helps with the whole, low on money issues. But there are parts that you know, wish wotc could not be so greedy and cards be so expensive like risk factor.

ooooh :D

Does her enchantment effect exist in the command zone....

Needs Masticore and Khalni Gem.

i wanna win

Why no hex pinnacle?

This is a really great and silly deck tech, however I'd still prefer playing selvala. She's just more consistent, and even though you still have to build the deck around her somewhat, it seems a lot less than sasaya...

I was gonna ask why no Helix Pinnacle but it's 15$ so... That's lame.

Hey kid... you like ramp? Also, people said we’d never use algebra in our lives. Ha!

Never been this early before haha

I remember when this deck would kill the f out of you.. :P

Wow I'm early.

i am disappointing. A deck that generates a unbound (if finite) amount of mana, and you didnt include Helix Pinnical. Never mind. Just checked the price. WHY IS IT $17!?!?!? (Sorry for the rant. Love the video. I am %100 making this deck.)

Early squad where you at?

1:16 *DID YOU JUST ASSUME THE GENDER OF A FICTICIOUS SNAKE KIN?*

actually it doesnt give you 36 mana for 6 lands because it says "for each other land" meaning it doesnt count itself so it will be 5x6 so basically the equation will be x(x-1) where x is the number of lands.

"Do your commander games end before turn 7?" Yes, actually. Quite often.

Patreon is too expensive when you are broke

It's pronounced "Sa-sa-ya", not "Sa-say-uh"

Did someone won the deck yet?