Aminatou Doomsday CEDH

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Control WUB (Esper)

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Instant (31)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Foil
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gush
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Peek
• 1x Perilous Voyage
• 1x Predict
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Silence
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Narset Transcendent

Land (31)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 9x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unearth

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Creature (7)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker

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Aminatou, the Fateshifter

Theme: Control

Sub-theme: Doomsday Combo

Introduction

My history with Aminatou began with this deck, when I tried to make a control deck abusing of blink effects. While I still believe the deck had potential, and I won some games, the deck lacks speed and some consistency on some combos.

Studying the cEDH meta, Zur Doomsday got my attention, so I changed the deck to fit into this playstyle. Since I don't have Lion's Eye Diamond, plus some others cards that cost a lot, I had to change the piles of Doomsday. Everything will be explained on the next topic.

If you have anything to contribute, just comment above.

Deck goals

The main goal of the deck is to win through Doomsday immediately after you cast it.

If Doomsday isn't available, there are 3 others Win conditions, although it is a lot less efficient.

All wins on this deck benefit themselves from Silence, if you don't have Silence, remember to have a counter backup.

Doomsday

There are some restrictions I've established to set Doomsday, they are:

1. The limit of mana it will consume is 5 manas, for piles with more than this mana, it will be very situational
2. Piles must win on the turn you cast it
3. Piles can have X slots, that are cards not exactly useful for the pile, just put there some card you think is useful.
4. All piles expect that you can somehow draw the first card
5. Every pile has it on explanation about mana cost(ho much mana you need to go through) and the full cost, that contains both mana cost and others costs, like life, lands or others cards in play

Reanimation Pile

Those are the most optimized piles, I believe.

Pile 1

Mana cost: UB Full cost: UB 2 Island 5 Life

Pile:

1. Gush
2. Careful Study
3. Reanimate
4. Laboratory Maniac
5. Gitaxian Probe

Steps:

1. Cast Gush returning 2 islands
2. Cast Careful Study
3. Dicarding Laboratory Maniac and a island you returned
4. Cast Reanimate targeting Laboratory Maniac
5. Cast Gitaxian Probe

Pile 2

Mana cost: UUB1 Full cost: UUB1 2 Island 6 Life / UUB1 8 Life

Pile:

1. Careful Study
2. Laboratory Maniac
3. Deep Analysis
4. Reanimate
5. Gush/Gitaxian Probe

Steps:

1. Cast Careful Study
2. Dicarding Laboratory Maniac and Deep Analysis
3. Cast Deep Analysis from graveyard
4. Cast Reanimate targeting Laboratory Maniac
5. Cast Gush/Gitaxian Probe

Consultation Pile

For this pile, you will need some sort of draw effect on your hand.

Mana cost: UB2 Full cost: UB2 Some draw, Two Islands

Pile:

1. Gush
2. Demonic Consultation
3. Laboratory Maniac
4. X
5. X

Steps: 1. Cast Gush 2. Cast Demonic Consultation naming Laboratory Maniac 3. Cast Laboratory Maniac 4. Draw a card

Blink Pile

For this pile, you will need Aminatou, the Fateshifter

Mana cost: W4 Full cost: W4 2 Islands Aminatou, the Fateshifter

Pile:

1. Gush
2. Felidar Guardian
3. Altar of the Brood
4. X
5. X

Steps:

1. Cast Gush
2. Cast Altar of the Brood
3. Felidar Guardian targetting Aminatou, the Fateshifter
4. -1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter targetting Felidar Guardian

Non-doomsday win conditions

Blink them to death

Combo: Altar of the Brood + Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Felidar Guardian

1. Cast Altar of the Brood
2. Felidar Guardian targetting Aminatou, the Fateshifter
3. -1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter targetting Felidar Guardian

This will mill everyone out

Lab kill

Combo: Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac + Any draw effect

1. Cast Laboratory Maniac
2. Cast Demonic Consultation naming itself or another card that isn't in the deck
3. Exile all you deck
4. Draw a card

Advanced Engines

Draw your entire deck

Combo: Ad Nauseam + Angel's Grace

1. Cast Ad Nauseam, keeping priority
2. Cast Angel's Grace
3. Draw your entire deck

Others

Viable Choices

• Unearth Some Reanimate redundancy for Labman
• Predict Can open the path for the pile: Predict > Labman > Gush > Unearth > Pact of Negation
• Frantic Search Can open the path for the pile: Frantic Search > Labman > Gush > Reanimate > Gitaxian Probe
• Dark Ritual Mana acceleration
• Cabal Ritual Same reason of Dark Ritual
• High Tide Same reason of Dark Ritual
• Lim-Dul's Vault A combo digger card like
• Merchant Scroll Another tutor
• Notion Thief Nice card to answer Windfall

Exclusions and Cards to be removed

• Oath of Teferi Too slow, doesn't help the deck enough
• Approach of the Second Sun quite good on casual, but slow on competitive
• Irrigated Farmland good land on late game for cycling, but doesn't do much for the deck

Flex Spots

• Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• Tainted Pact
• Soul's Attendant
• Oblivion Ring
• Jace Beleren
• Dovin Baan
• Dark Petition
• Archaeomancer

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Ad Nauseam + Angel's Grace Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac Altar of the Brood + Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Felidar Guardian
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.93
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Manifest 2/2 C