My Imaginary Friend Won't Bite...I Promise!!!

Commander / EDH* Counters GU (Simic) Infinite Combo Midrange Multiplayer

Enral

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 10x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Interaction (10)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Voidslime

Protection (9)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Voidslime

Win Condition (2)

• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Ramp (19)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Voyaging Satyr

Support (19)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Time Warp

Tutor (4)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Commanders (2)

Counters (15)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Shapers of Nature
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Vigean Graftmage
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade

Draw (6)

• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero

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He's That Imaginary Friend

Pir and Toothy

This is my Pir, Imaginative Rascal & Toothy, Imaginary Friend goodstuff deck that focuses on generating value from card draw and boosting my creatures with +1/+1 counters. The more card I draw, the further ahead I am in the game.

Getting to Know Him

How the Deck Works

• Deploy Pir with counters engine in play or deploy toothy if there is a card draw engine in play.

• Create ridiculous boardstates with +1/+1 counters, draw a bunch of cards, play multiple lands with Azusa, Lost but Seeking , and drown the pod with a more superior boardstate with cards like Thrasios, Triton Hero / Seedborn Muse .

• Win with Simic Ascendancy , Craterhoof Behemoth , infinite turns, or commander damage.

Deck Anatomy

• Counters: Creatures with counter abilities by themselves are not really strong and low impact. The best type of counter support are those that gives counters to creatures without them. Card like Forgotten Ancient is great because they enhance the boardstate with counters by themselves.

• Ramp: I will be drawing a bunch of cards during the game and having ways to play out multiple lands per turn is a good way of taking advantage of my handsize. Cards like Oracle of Mul Daya fills that role perfectly and is never a dead draw early or late game.

• Bounce: Toothy, Imaginary Friend has a "leave" clause which means that in order to cash in on the draw, I have to find a way to get it to leave the battlefield. Cards like Temur Sabertooth lets me cash in on the draw at instant speed and Deadeye Navigator flickers toothy which lets it come back with the same amount of +1/+1 counters to be abused again.

Notable Exclusions

• Doubling Season : I was never happy drawing it at any point in the game. It's a dead card early game, eats removal or draws unnecessary attention mid game before it even matter, and a win-more late game. Vorel of the Hull Clade is much better in this deck. I think it's better suited for a superfriends build as it has a bigger impact.

• Zameck Guildmage : The first ability was rarely activated and the second ability is more color mana intensive compared to Shapers of Nature . Needs more testing between the two.

• Gyre Sage : This is a trap card. Doesn't do anything by itself and is highly dependent on me dropping a bigger creature to make it a mana dork. It is only good in Ezuri due to the fact that he can dump a bunch on counters on him the turn it comes down. Voyaging Satyr is much better due to the fact that it can untap a Gaea's Cradle .

• Champion of Lambholt : Decent drop early game but most likely a dead draw mid to late game. It is only good in Ezuri due to the fact that he can dump a bunch on counters on him the turn it comes down. Herald of Secret Streams impacts the board immediately and fits in this deck better.

The Lethal Bite

Synergies

• Shapers of Nature + Toothy, Imaginary Friend = Toothy needs to have at least one +1/+1 counter on it for this combo to work. Basically draws a card as many times as you like with . With Pir, Imaginative Rascal / Hardened Scales in play, it nets you an extra +1/+1 counter on Toothy per card draw activation too.

• Seedborn Muse = Turns Alchemist's Refuge into Prophet of Kruphix , turns Thrasios, Triton Hero into ramp or draw every turn, turns Nephalia Smuggler / Deadeye Navigator into a value engine every turn, turns Vorel of the Hull Clade into a Doubling Season effect every turn, and turns Shapers of Nature / Simic Ascendancy into card draw or counter generation every turn.

Infinite Combos

• Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness + Time Warp = Infinite turns. Conversely, DEN could be replaced with Temur Sabertooth / Crystal Shard / Nephalia Smuggler but will be more mana intensive.

• Eternal Witness + Ghostly Flicker + Greenwarden of Murasa + Time Warp = Infinite turns.

• Incubation Druid + Vigean Graftmage = Infinite colored mana. Winning lines (best done with instant speed enabler like Alchemist's Refuge ) are Temur Sabertooth / Shapers of Nature to bounce Toothy, Imaginary Friend enough times to draw into Simic Ascendancy . How the loop works with Temur Sabertooth is that once you generate infinite mana, cast Toothy, Imaginary Friend and graft a +1/+1 counter on it. Bounce it back with sabertooth to draw a card and then bounce (and redeploy) graftmage back to regenerate it's +1/+1 counters. You can now re-cast toothy from your hand to have it gain a +1/+1 counter from graftmage. Repeat ad infinitum. Deadeye Navigator also works but all you need is for toothy to have a +1/+1 counter grafted from graftmage.

Top Ranked	Achieved #7 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness + Time Warp Incubation Druid + Vigean Graftmage Eternal Witness + Ghostly Flicker + Greenwarden of Murasa Shapers of Nature + Toothy, Imaginary Friend
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.41
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G
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