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Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Sisay gets +1/+1 for each color among other legendary permanents you control.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Search your library for a legendary permanent card with mana value less than Sisay's power, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3175
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Sisay, Weatherlight Captain card art
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain is a repeatable legendary tutor stapled to a creature — tap her with enough power on board and she chains legendary permanents directly into play, threatening to assemble a game-winning engine in a handful of activations. The cost is real: she needs summoning-sickness to clear, requires legendary density to function, and becomes a removal magnet the moment opponents understand what Intruder Alarm or Jodah, the Unifier does alongside her.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

49.9% of decks · synergy 0.45

Jodah, the Unifier turns every legendary Sisay, Weatherlight Captain fetches into a cascade trigger, compounding value so fast that a single activation can generate two or three additional threats — the synergy score of 0.45 is the highest on this list for a reason.

02
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

21.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin wants a critical mass of legendary Shrines, and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain tutors them directly onto the battlefield one at a time while each new Shrine pumps Sisay's power and speeds up the next activation.

03

Esika, God of the Tree

14.6% of decks · synergy 0.10

Esika, God of the Tree's back face, The Prismatic Bridge, already cheats legendaries into play for free — Sisay, Weatherlight Captain adds a proactive, on-demand tutor line on top of that passive, letting the deck find exactly the legendary it needs rather than waiting on a random hit.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Sisay, Weatherlight Captain is built to live: 99-card singleton construction rewards her tutor consistency, the slower pace gives her activations time to compound, and the legendary-matters design space is deepest here. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but functionally irrelevant — five mana for a creature that taps to tutor is too slow for formats where the game can end on turn one or two. Modern is the same story: she's legal on paper, but competitive Modern has no interest in a five-mana value engine that does nothing the turn it enters. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Sisay, Weatherlight Captain is worth a second look, since the 58-card singleton structure mirrors enough of Commander's logic that her tutoring axis still functions.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

No current price data is available for Sisay, Weatherlight Captain — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the most accurate figure before buying. She has seen multiple printings, which historically keeps her accessible, but demand from Jodah and Esika builds keeps consistent floor pressure on copies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.