Sisay is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
Complete guide
Sisay is a powerful Vanguard card that significantly boosts your mana production throughout the game. By modifying how your lands generate resources, she ensures you stay ahead of the curve. This guide explains how to maximize her triggered ability to fuel your most ambitious spells.
Doubling Your Land Output
Sisay possesses a triggered mana ability. Whenever you tap a land for mana, she notices the type of mana produced (White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, or Colorless) and adds one additional mana of that same type to your mana pool. This effectively doubles the output of any land that produces a single type of mana.
How It Resolves Step by Step
First, you activate a mana ability of a land you control by tapping it. The land's mana is added to your pool immediately. Because Sisay's ability is a mana ability that triggers on another mana ability, it does not use the stack; it resolves instantly, adding the bonus mana to your pool before any player can respond.
Choosing Types and Multi-Mana Lands
If a land produces multiple types of mana at once, you choose which one of those types Sisay mimics. For example, if a land produces both Red and Green mana, you choose whether Sisay adds an extra Red or an extra Green. Note that Sisay only triggers when a 'land' is tapped; mana rocks or creatures do not trigger this effect.
When to Play Sisay
Sisay is best utilized in decks with high mana requirements or those seeking to cast multiple spells per turn. Since she provides a constant advantage from turn one, she is ideal for strategies that rely on explosive starts or color-intensive costs.
Interaction examples
Command TowerWhen you tap Command Tower for a color in your commander's identity, Sisay triggers. If your commander is 5-color, you might tap for Blue; Sisay then adds a second Blue mana to your pool, giving you two Blue mana total from a single land.
To activate Sisay, Weatherlight Captain's ability, you need one mana of every color. With the Sisay Vanguard card in play, you only need to tap three lands (producing five mana total) to reach the required WUBRG cost, allowing you to search for legendary permanents much earlier in the game.
Sol RingIf you tap Sol Ring for two colorless mana, Sisay does not trigger. Her ability specifically looks for 'a land' being tapped for mana. Because Sol Ring is an artifact, you only receive the standard two colorless mana.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Sisay
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
Interactions with other cards
These cards' text mentions Sisay.
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.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose one — • Flavor — Meet and Greet "Sisay" gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each line of flavor text that spell has. • History — Create a Treasure token if that spell doesn't share an expansion symbol with a permanent you control or a card in your graveyard.
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