Aminatou Combo

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Reanimator WUB (Esper)

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Land (34)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Rhystic Study

Creature (24)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brago, King Eternal
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Artifact (13)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Windfall

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Sorcery (4)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Time Wipe
• 1x Wrath of God

Instant (2)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Ghostly Flicker

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rest in Peace

Land (2)

• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Scavenger Grounds

Creature (3)

• 1x Stonehorn Dignitary
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Wall of Omens

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Chain Veil

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This is intended to be a fast combo deck built around several potential combos. There are two major combos with several redundant components to improve its resilience to interaction.

Main Combo Descriptions

The first combo revolves around Aminatou, the Fateshifter and Felidar Guardian , they can flicker each other infinitely, but if you add in a Panharmonicon or Oath of Teferi then you can flicker all your other permanents (including lands!) infinitely. flickering lands or mana rocks allows you to float infinite colored and colorless mana, but you can flicker creatures like Gray Merchant of Asphodel to win the game. Cards like Soul Warden and Altar of the Brood become win conditions when you can flicker things infinitely, even if it is just Restoration Angel and Felidar Gaurdian targeting each other.

The second combo is Eldrazi Displacer and Peregrine Drake for infinite colored mana. If you have two lands that produce colorless mana you can produce infinite colorless mana which can be used by the Eldrazi Displacer to blink other creatures infinitely as well.

The last combo is Brago, King Eternal , Strionic Resonator with any number of rocks capable of producing at least 2 mana. Brago attacks dealing damage and triggering his ability. Pay 2 with Strionic Resonator to copy Brago's triggered ability. Now the copied ability resolves, blinking any number of nonland permanants (including Strionic Resonator and your rocks which all come in untapped and ready to go again to repeat the process)

Other Synergies:

Gilded Drake can be flickered by Aminatou even after you trade it for another creature, so it comes back to the field under your control and you can steal another creature. This is really nice for when opponents rely on their commands, its often worse for them than just using removal on the commander.

Fetch lands and tutors can be used to shuffle away the top of your deck to get rid of unwanted cards after using Aminatous +1 ability, Brainstorm , or Sensei's Divining Top .

Aminatou can set up miracles from hands with her +1 ability.

Sun Titan can retrieve Aminatou and reanimation auras from the graveyard, you can pull multiple creatures from with a single aura by blinking the first creature, letting the aura go to the grave, then using sun titan to pull the aura back. This can sometimes make Sun Titan a tutor target in some games to retrieve combo pieces.

Other Remarks:

An underlying theme to the deck is the use of the graveyard for reanimation. This is sometimes used almost like tutors are, and can help cheat in more expensive cards to combo off faster or lock down the game early with Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Devoid of interaction/disruption/pressure, if I gun for the combo as fast as I can, I can combo off around turn 6 to 7 reliably, a little earlier if I allow for victory through milling opponents (my meta runs a lot of the eldrazi titans and such that make the mill win con usually fail). It usually involves dumping Rune-Scarred Demon into the graveyard via Entomb or Buried Alive and reanimating it, and tutoring for Felidar Guardian , Panharmonicon . Rune-Scarred Demon is a good swiss army knife, even if you dont combo off immediately you can use him to mana fix, or grab removal, but he can also be the draw engine if you get Aminatou, Felidar Guardian . and Panharmonicon (or any other infinite blink+mana combo) on board to make the victory certain. The Deadeye Navigator combo is more powerful as you can use it at instant speed and it protects itself from targeted removal, but it is harder to play from hand without cheating it out via the graveyard. If I could buried alive turn one, my prime targets are Rune-Scarred Demon , Deadeye Navigator and depending on the hand, Peregrine Drake , Felidar Guardian , or Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur .

I do not own some of the more expensive cards that would be great in this deck like OG dual lands, the mox, etc. Additionally this deck has some sub-par cards for a combo deck like Venser, the Sojourner because my LGS has a points system for games, and the way to gain points has deck building requirements (for example one of the points is to have 3 planeswalkers on board at the same time). My deck aims to be able to hit every point possible if it gets to combo off.

Top Ranked	Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH WUB (Esper) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	RG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	Ideas Esper, Well yes