Momir Vig's Pile O' Elves

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive GU (Simic) Infinite Combo Midrange

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Creature (32)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birchlore Rangers
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Heritage Druid
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Future
• 1x Multani's Acolyte
• 1x Nettle Sentinel
• 1x Orochi Leafcaller
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wistful Selkie

Instant (19)

• 1x Alter Reality
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Glamerdye
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mind Bend
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Sleight of Mind
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vitalize
• 1x Whim of Volrath
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Commander (1)

Artifact (8)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Land (29)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 15x Forest
• 10x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Mobilize
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Trait Doctoring

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This is my competitive Momir Vig, Simic Visionary Elfball deck. For the uninitiated, the goal of the deck is to play a large number of mana dorks, (Cheap creatures that tap for mana, like Llanowar Elves.) and chain as many of the together as I can by tapping them for mana the turn the came into play with something like Heritage Druid or Earthcraft. One I have played enough elves, (Read: All of them,) I transmute Drift of Phantasms to go find Cloudstone Curio. At some point in this process, I will need to go find Intruder Alarm for infinite mana with Cloudstone Curio, possibly by using Eternal Witness to recur Drift of Phantasms and transmuting a second time. Once I have infinite mana and infinite cast/leaves the battle field triggers, I play Tidespout Tyrant, bounce all of my opponents' permanents and pass the turn. This can probably win the game alone, but If it doesn't, I can just softlock everyone else out of the game by bouncing all of their permanents every turn cycle and smashing in with my elves.

Early Game

Early game, your priority is ramping. You want to get to five mana by turn four at the latest, and as such, any hand that lets you accomplish that is probably fairly good. Beware, though, as any early sweeper can set you back significantly, as it will more than likely completely reset your boardstate with you stuck at one or two lands. If you feel like a sweeper is likely, either hold back and wait to draw into protection, (In the form of a counterspell,) or try to race it. If you take the later route, know that you absolutely have to win before the boardwipe comes down, or will almost certainly lose. Anyways, if the coast is clear, you should try to land a Momir Vig, Simic Visionary and proceed to stage two...

The Setup

So you've managed to windmill slam your commander while everybody else was too busy playing Pokemon Go to counter him, and you're ready to go off and lose all your friends? Good. After Momir Vig comes down, if you have one of the six famously useless Trait Doctoring effects that this deck runs, cast it targeting your commander and change the "color word" in his second ability from "Blue" to "Green". This means that whenever you cast a green creature spell, you tutor up another creature to the top of your library, and then put it into your hand off of the second ability. If you don't have any of them, don't worry, you will just need a bit more mana to go off. Regardless of whether or not you are able to doctor Momir's traits, continue on to the next step.

The Combo

You've made it this far, but here's the hard part. (Not really.) If you have successfully changed Momir's text, skip this. Otherwise, play a creature spell, tutor up Primordial Sage or Magus of the Future, and draw into them, either through a cantrip, Sensei's Divining Top, or just passing the turn. Once you have one of these two on the battlefield, you can continue with you tutor chain. The first creature to tutor for is Heritage Druid. Because of the way that she is worded, you can tap creatures with summoning sickness to make mana. Yay! Once you find her, go tutor for Nettle Sentinel. At this point, you can tap Momir, Sentinel, and the Druid to make three green mana. Use your next tutor to go find Orochi Leafcaller, to convert green mana to blue mana for protection. after that, go find all of your one mana elves, make more mana with Heritage Druid, and get a massive boardstate. Repeat for CMC two creatures.

The Win

By now, you should have upwards of eight dorks on the table. Tutor for Drift of Phantasms, and transmute for Cloudstone Curio. Depending on the boardstate, this might just win on the spot, but if it doesn't, use Eternal Witness to recure the Phantasms and tutor for Intruder Alarm. Now you have infinite mana, infinite tutors with Momir Vig, and infinite ETB triggers. Tutor for Tidespout Tyrant, and bounce all permanents except for one for each opponent. Then, use infinite Eternal Witness triggers to cast Beast Within on all opposing permanents, giving each player a 3/3 Beast. Cast Reality Shift an infinite number of times to exile the libraries of each opponent, and pass the turn.

Finally, a few tips:

- You will need a few extra creatures in hand when you start the combo because you need extra Momir triggers to go find Drift of Phantasms. This problem can be circumvented by making sure that you net a card every time you play a creature, through Magus, Primordial Sage, or both if you do not have a Glamerdye effect.

- I cannot stress this enough, YOU DIE TO SWEEPERS!.

- This deck is absolutely not acceptable for casual play. You will be taking extremely long turns, going infinite, and other "unfun" things. Don't play this in anything other than the most cutthroat of playgroups.

- Lastly, this deck is a budget build, and there are several upgrades you could make, including Glimpse of Nature, Force of Will, Pact of Negation, as well as Mana Crypt, Mox Diamond, and a better mana base.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WBR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	34 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.90
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C