Prime Speaker Vannifar

Commander / EDH GU (Simic)

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Creature (33)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Bounding Krasis
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Land (32)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 7x Forest
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vitalize

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits

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Prime Speaker Vannifar: Vanni-Pod

Prime Speaker Vannifar is a Birthing Pod in your command zone. This deck is fast, consistent and usually does not need much to combo out. Birthing pod lines can start at either a two-, one- or even zero-drop (Dryad Arbor), and will almost always end by you winning the game. The goal usuallty is to get infinite mana through a pod-line, and use this mana to keep cycling certain spells in order to win the game.

Vannifar Lines

There are different pod chains possible which lead to one of two outcomes. You either get a deadeye combo online, or you sac protean hulk to combo off. You have a lot of flexibility within your chains for when certain pieces are in your hand or in your graveyard. The pod-chains mentioned here all start from the premise that everything that needs to be in your library is in there.

Trophy mage, required: {4} & minimum 3 lands

1. Sac 2 drop to get Trophy Mage --> get Thousand-Year Elixer
2. Cast Thousand-Year Elixir --> Untap Vannifar
3. Sac Trophy Mage --> get Fatestitcher, untap Vannifar
4. Sac Fatestitcher --> get Peregrine Drake, untap your lands
5. Unearth Fatestitcher for {U} --> untap Vannifar
6. Sac Peregrine Drake --> get Deadeye Navigator, soulbond with Prime Speaker Vannifar or Fatestitcher, use {1}{U} to untap Vannifar.

7. Sac Fatestitcher --> get Body Double, let it enter as Peregrine Drake

Minamo/wirewood lodge, requires {G}{G}{G}{U} and 4 lands

Sac 2 drop --> get Spellseeker, getting Crop Rotation

Cast Crop Rotation, get Minamo, School at Water's Edge, untap Vannifar

Sac Spellseeker --> get Archaeomancer, get back Crop Rotation

Cast Crop Rotation, get Wirewood Lodge, untap vannifar

Sac Archaeomancer --> get Peregrine Drake, untap your lands

Sac Peregrine Drake --> get Woodland Bellower --> get Bounding Krasis, untap Vannifar

Sac Woodland Bellower --> get Protean Hulk

Untap Vannifar with Wirewood Lodge --> sac Protean Hulk

Vitalize into Protean Hulk, requires {1}{G}{G}{G}{G}{G}{U}

Sac 2 drop --> get Spellseeker, get Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Spellseeker --> get Breaching Hippocamp, untap Vannifar

Sac Breaching Hippocamp --> Get Mnemonic Wall, getting back Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Mnemonic Wall --> get Greenwarden of Murasa, getting back Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Greenwarden of Murasa, exile it to get back Vitalize --> get Protean Hulk

Cast Vitalize

Sac Protean Hulk

Vitalize into deadeye combo, requires mana dork + {1}{U}

Sac 2 drop --> Get Spellseeker, getting Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Spellseeker --> get Breaching Hippocamp, untap Vannifar

Sac Breaching Hippocamp --> Get Mnemonic Wall, getting back Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Mnemonic Wall --> get Woodland Bellower --> get Bounding Krasis, untap Vannifar

Sac Bounding Krasis --> get Archaeomancer, getting back Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Archaeomancer --> get Body Double, let it enter as Mnemonic Wall, getting back Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Mnemonic Wall --> get Deadeye Navigator, soulbond with Woodland Bellower

Blink Woodland Bellower --> get Eternal Witness, getting back Vitalize

Cast Vitalize

Sac Woodland Bellower --> get Palinchron, soulbond with Deadeye Navigator

Chakram retriever, requires a 2 and a 3 drop creature

Sac 3 drop --> get Breaching Hippocamp, untap Vannifar

Sac Breaching Hippocamp --> get Chakram Retriever

Cast a spell to untap Vannifar

Sac 1 drop --> get Scryb Ranger, bounce a forest to untap Vannifar

Sac Scryb Ranger --> get Spellseeker, getting Gitaxian Probe

Cast Gitaxian Probe to untap Vannifar

Sac Spellseeker --> get Archaeomancer, getting back Gitaxian Probe

Cast Gitaxian Probe to untap Vannifar

Sac Breaching Hippocamp --> get Mnemonic Wall, getting back Gitaxian Probe

Cast Gitaxian Probe to untap Vannifar

Sac Mnemonic Wall --> get Greenwarden of Murasa, getting back Gitaxian Probe

Cast Gitaxian Probe to untap Vannifar

Sac Greenwarden of Murasa & exile it to get back Gitaxian Probe --> Get Protean Hulk

Cast Gitaxian Probe to untap Vannifar

Sac Protean Hulk

Winning the game

A few pod-lines end with "Sac Protean Hulk", but where do you go from there? The goal remains the same: get infinite mana. We will look at what you can do when sacrificing Protean Hulk in order to win the game. There are different ways to win once you have your mana. Since Spellseeker is almost always included in your pod-chains, you can reuse this to get something you need and loop it with Deadeye Navigator, Eternal Witness, Archaeomancer, Mnemonic Wall or Body Double.

Winning from saccing Protean Hulk

Sac Protean Hulk --> Get Tidespout Tyrant

from the Hulk trigger get Trinket Mage, Dryad Arbor, Quirion Ranger and any 2 drop

Get Sol Ring/Mana Vault/Mana Crypt with trinket mage

Untap Vannifar with Quirion Ranger

Sac Trinket Mage --> Get Breaching Hippocamp, untap Vannifar

Sac Breaching Hippocamp --> Get Body Double, entering as Trinket Mage, getting Mox Amber

With Tidespout Tyrant you can loop the 2 mana rocks for infinite mana.

Winning the game with infinite mana

Looping Reality Shift --> Exile opponent's libraries

Looping Gitaxian Probe --> Draw your deck

Looping Beast Within --> Kill opponent's permanents, and bounce all the tokens for an extra bonus with Cyclonic Rift

Pending changes

• Voidslime -> Flusterstorm

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Manifest 2/2 C