Living Energy Commander Deck Upgrade Guide

Bootleggers' Stash costs {5}{G} and gives your lands a tap ability that makes Treasure. It does not make energy, and it is played in about one Saheeli deck in six.

Izzet Generatorium costs {U}{R}: if you would get one or more energy counters, you get that many plus one instead, and {T} draws a card if you have paid or lost four or more energy this turn. Every energy source is one bigger, and it is the highest-scoring card the precon leaves out.

Cultivator's Caravan is a three-mana rock that crews for 3. It is a vehicle and a mana rock that does not make energy.

Roil Cartographer costs {1}{U}: whenever a land enters under your control you get {E}, and {T}, pay six {E} draws three cards. A two-drop that makes energy from every land you play.

Pia and Kiran Nalaar is an Artificer for {2}{R}{R} that makes two Thopters and can sacrifice artifacts to deal 2 damage. It is a good card, but it is played in about one Saheeli deck in six and makes no energy.

Aether Refinery costs {4}{R}{R}: if you would get energy counters you get twice that many instead, and {T} gets you {E}, then you may pay energy to create an X/X Aetherborn. It doubles your energy and turns it into bodies.

Soul-Guide Lantern exiles a card from a graveyard and can be sacrificed to draw a card. It makes no energy, and is played in about one Saheeli deck in four.

Gonti's Aether Heart costs {6}: whenever it or another artifact you control enters you get {E}{E}, and for eight energy and an exile you take an extra turn. A big energy engine and a finisher that costs one card.

Elder Gargaroth is a 6/6 reach, vigilance, trampler for {3}{G}{G} that makes a Beast, gains life or draws on every attack or block. It is a very strong card, but it does not make energy, and is played in about one Saheeli deck in four.

Electrosiphon costs {U}{U}{R} at instant speed: counter target spell, and you get energy equal to its mana value. Counter a six-drop and you have six energy, enough to draw three off Roil Cartographer.

Explosive Vegetation costs four to put two basic lands onto the battlefield tapped, and Saheeli's deck already has plenty of mana.

Tune the Narrative costs {U}: draw a card and get {E}{E}. A one-mana cantrip that makes two energy and replaces itself.

Midnight Clock is a rock that adds hour counters and, on the twelfth, shuffles your hand and graveyard into your library and draws seven. It is slow, and played in about one Saheeli deck in four.

Aether Revolt costs {2}{R}{R}: whenever you get one or more energy it deals that much damage to any target, and with revolt noncombat damage is increased by 2. Every energy counter you make is a ping.

Conjurer's Closet costs five and blinks a creature you control at your end step. It is a slow value card, played in about three Saheeli decks in ten.

Galvanic Discharge costs {R} at instant speed: you get {E}{E}{E}, then you may pay any amount of energy to deal that much damage to a creature or planeswalker. A one-mana removal spell that nets energy if you do not pay it all.

Commander's Sphere is a three-mana rock that taps for one mana of your commander's colours, and the deck has several others.

Conversion Apparatus costs {3}: it taps for {C}, and for {3} and a tap it gets you {E}{E}{E}, and for a tap and three energy it adds three mana of any colors. A rock that makes the three energy Saheeli's copy ability needs, and is an artifact spell that triggers her.

Evolving Wilds sacrifices itself to put a basic land onto the battlefield tapped.

HELIOS One is a land that taps for {C}. For {1} and a tap you get {E}, and later you can sacrifice it with energy to destroy a nonland permanent. A land that makes energy every turn and doubles as removal.

Duplicant ({6}) is one of the lowest-scoring cards in the precon, at 27 in the Oracle: it is in 28% of Saheeli decks with 27% synergy. It reads: Imprint : When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.

Volatile Stormdrake ({1}{U}) scores 41: it is in 42% of Saheeli decks with 40% synergy. It reads: Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities. When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and target creature an opponent controls.