Prime Speaker Vannifar - Now THIS is Pod Racing!

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive GU (Simic) Infinite Combo Multiplayer Toolbox

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Protection/ Disruption (22)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Veil of Summer

Primary Combo Line (8)

• 1x Body Double
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Trophy Mage

Draw Protection (3)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sylvan Library

Mana (29)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 11x Forest
• 6x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Alternative Lines (9)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Vitalize
• 1x Wirewood Lodge

Tutors (6)

• 1x Crop RotationGC
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Worldly TutorGC

Haste Enablers (3)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Commander (1)

Fast Mana (11)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Sol Ring

Combo Starters (8)

• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Harvester Druid
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Quirion Elves
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Voyaging Satyr

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Maybeboard

Other (6)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Thornbite Staff

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This deck is built around a combo to destroy all opponents' lands and exile all opponents' decks and permanents. It involves infinite mana via Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake, Terastodon, and a Protean Hulk combo. Strap in, this is a tough one.

PART 1: INFINITE MANA Show

1) Get a 2-drop dork on board and at least 3 lands.

2) Cast Vannifar. She'll have to survive a round, so have some protection for her if possible.

3) Float mana with your dork, then Pod the dork to Trophy Mage. When the Mage enters, use its ETB trigger to find Thousand-Year Elixir.

4) Cast Thousand-Year Elixir; you should have at least 1 mana still available.

5) Untap Vannifar with the Elixir's activated ability and Pod the Trophy Mage to Fatestitcher.

6) Untap Vannifar with the Fatestitcher (which has pseudo-haste from the Elixir) and Pod the Fatestitcher to Peregrine Drake.

7) With your lands untapped, Unearth the Fatestitcher and untap Vannifar. Pod the Drake to Deadeye Navigator. Soulbond the Navigator with Vannifar.

8) Use your now untapped lands to flicker Vannifar. She'll enter untapped with pseudo-haste.

9) Pod the Fatestitcher to Body Double, which enters as a copy of Peregrine Drake.

You can now generate infinite mana by flickering Body Double and having it re-enter as Peregrine Drake. Tap all your lands in response to the untap trigger.

PART 2: FINISH THEM Show

1) With 2 million mana in your pool, flicker Deadeye Navigator and soulbond it with Vannifar. Flicker Vannifar herself to untap her.

2) Pod the Body Double (still a copy of Peregrine Drake) into Great Oak Guardian. Its ETB ability will untap Vannifar (and all other creatures you control).

3) Pod the Guardian to Protean Hulk.

4) Flicker Vannifar again to untap her, then pod the Protean Hulk to Terastodon.

5) Now you have to resolve the Hulk's death trigger and Terastodon's ETB. With the Hulk's death trigger, find Spellseeker and Eternal Witness. With the Terastodon's ETB, destroy one of each of your opponents' lands; they'll each get a beast token. You can flicker Terastodon with Deadeye if you want to destroy all permanents you don't control.

6) Now resolve the ETBs of your Hulk targets. Fetch Reality Shift with Spellseeker's trigger and Peregrine Drake with Eternal Witness's.

7) Cast Peregrine Drake again. If your opponent counters it, just flicker Deadeye, bond it with Eternal witness and return it to hand again (this step isn't strictly necessary, but will ensure nobody's doubtful you have infinte mana for the next bit).

8) Cast Reality Shift targeting a beast. When it resolves, flicker and bond Deadeye with Eternal Witness.

9) Flicker Eternal Witness, returning reality shift to your hand. Exile the card your opponent manifested.

10) Repeat step 9 until each opponent's library is entirely exiled.

ADDENDUM: EMERGENCY SITUATIONS Show

I can't find a 2-drop to start the chain!

If you've got the budget, add all the green fetchlands to the deck instead of basics. Through these, you can fetch Dryad Arbor which you can pod into Quirion Ranger, use its ability (bouncing a forest) to untap Vannifar and pod the Ranger into a Scryb Ranger. The likelyhood of you needing to do this, however, is extremely low, so I'm not running fetchlands for the sake of budget.

I've drawn a combo piece!

If you can, shuffle it back into your deck with Brainstorm or Whirlpool Rider. If this is still a concern, you can replace some dorks or protection with Scroll Rack or Timetwister (I would definitely run Twister over the Rider or something like Blossoming Defense if you can afford it!)

If this isn't possible, you'll be able to get it on to the battlefield in most cases:

• If it's any of the finisher pieces (Spellseeker, Eternal Witness, Terastodon or Reality Shift), you'll be able to cast them easily after getting infinite mana.

• If it's Fatestitcher, you'll have to cast it at a moment you can protect it.

• If it's Peregrine Drake, you can cast it before starting the chain with Vannifar. This is fairly low-risk, as even if it dies you should be able to pod your way up to Protean Hulk as long as you have at least 7 mana available at the start of the turn.

• If it's Deadeye Navigator, you can pod to Great Oak Guardian instead of Navigator, then to Protean Hulk and pod the Hulk to Terastodon. Instead of getting Spellseeker and Eternal Witness, get Elvish Piper and a 2 mana dork. Use Elvish Piper to get the Navigator on the field, bond with Vannifar, pod the Unearthed Fatestitcher to a Body Double and continue as usual

Best of luck and happy Podding!

(Note that a significant portion of the cost of the optimised list goes purely into fast mana like Mana Vault, Mana Crypt and Mox Diamond, feel free to cut these in favour something on the maybeboard)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elephant 3/3 G, Food, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C