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Lands (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 2x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Combo Pieces (9)

• 1x Cavalier of Gales
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vigean Graftmage

Non-Land Mana Sources (16)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sol Ring

Tech Pieces (10)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nantuko Tracer
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Whirlpool Rider

Extra Untappers (6)

• 1x Emerald Charm
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Vitalize
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Draw (4)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Removal and Counterspells (15)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Stern Proctor
• 1x Swan Song

Tutors (6)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Spellseeker

Stax (4)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Hullbreacher
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Root Maze

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Introduction

Why should I play Vannifar?

Prime Speaker Vannifar is an adaptative combo commander that can win from almost any boardstate, so long as you can tap your commander. You'll love playing her if you think of each boardstate as a puzzle to solve, you like high-customization combo decks or you want to reminisce the days of Modern Pod.

Thanks and things

Huge thanks to the Vannifar Discord server and notably Desdenova, for all the brewing going over there to make those awesome pod chains.

Gameplay

Combo Lines

This deck is unusual for a Prime Speaker Vannifar deck as there is only one main combo line, with a high volume of pieces to protect said line and interact with opponents boards and plays. The combo line requires to execute, and requires to cast one spell without the protection of your whole deck. The traditional combo line of the deck is :

Main Line

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Potential pre-combo steps

• Dryad Arbor > Quirion Ranger, untap Vannifar
• Any 1 CMC > Scryb Ranger, untap Vannifar

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1. Any 2 CMC > Trophy Mage, tutor for Thousand-Year Elixir
2. Cast Thousand-Year Elixir ()
3. Untap Vannifar with Thousand-Year Elixir ()
4. Trophy Mage > Fatestitcher, untap Vannifar
5. Fatestitcher > Tidewater Minion, untap Vannifar
6. Unearth Fatestitcher, untap a land/dork with it ()
7. Tidewater Minion > Great Oak Guardian, Vannifar and Fatestitcher untaps
8. Great Oak Guardian > Protean Hulk, untap Vannifar with Fatestitcher
9. Protean Hulk > Nothing
10. Using Protean Hulk's trigger, search for Spectral Sailor, Incubation Druid and Vigean Graftmage
11. As they enter the battlefield, Graft a +1/+1 conter from Vigean Graftmage to Incubation Druid
12. Proceed to create infinite mana, then draw your whole deck
13. Cast Scavenging Ooze
14. Cast Eternal Witness
15. Cast Winds of Rebuke, targeting Eternal Witness
16. Empty all opponents' graveyards with Scavenging Ooze
17. Cast Eternal Witness, targeting Winds of Rebuke
18. Repeat steps 15-17 until all opponents are rid of their decks
19. Cast Timetwister

If you have an haste enabler in hand (Thousand-Year Elixir, Concordant Crossroads or Lightning Greaves), there is an alternate line for + the casting cost of the haste enabler. the line is :

Fast Line

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Potential pre-combo steps

• Dryad Arbor > Quirion Ranger, untap Vannifar
• Any 1 CMC > Scryb Ranger, untap Vannifar

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1. Play Haste enabler.
2. Any 2 CMC > Vizier of Tumbling Sands, untap Vannifar
3. Vizier of Tumbling Sands > Fatestitcher, untap Vannifar
4. Fatestitcher > Tidewater Minion, untap Vannifar
5. Unearth Fatestitcher, untap a land/dork with it ()
6. Tidewater Minion > Great Oak Guardian, Vannifar and Fatestitcher untaps
7. Great Oak Guardian > Protean Hulk, untap Vannifar with Fatestitcher
8. Protean Hulk > Nothing
9. Using Protean Hulk's trigger, search for Spectral Sailor, Incubation Druid and Vigean Graftmage
10. As they enter the battlefield, Graft a +1/+1 conter from Vigean Graftmage to Incubation Druid
11. Proceed to create infinite mana, then draw your whole deck
12. Cast Scavenging Ooze
13. Cast Eternal Witness
14. Cast Winds of Rebuke, targeting Eternal Witness
15. Empty all opponents' graveyards with Scavenging Ooze
16. Cast Eternal Witness, targeting Winds of Rebuke
17. Repeat steps 14-16 until all opponents are rid of their decks
18. Cast Timetwister

Main Strategy

The main strategy of the deck is to resolve a Vannifar as close to the end of the previous player's turn as possible, so you can start comboing with as little interactions as possible. In the meantime, you'll aim to remove potential stax pieces that would prefent you from comboing efficiently and prevent opponents from winning with your counterspells.

Stax Pieces and how to handle them

Sphere of Resistance, Thorn of Amethyst, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Lodestone Golem
These cards affect your capacity to interact with the other players, but otherwise are not detrimental to your play. Count carefully, but otherwise use them to protect your own combo.

Null Rod, Collector Ouphe, Stony Silence
Minor inconveniences, we run them ourselves, so we should already be able to deal with them. Be careful, as you need an extra untapper to combo while Null Rod is on the battlefield.

Aven Mindcensor, Ashiok, Dream Render
These pieces needs to be removed before you can combo. Very hard lock for the deck.

Thalia, Heretic Cathar, Blind Obedience, Authority of the Consuls, Frozen Aether, Kismet, Root Maze
Since it makes your creatures enter the battlefield tapped, this deck cannot combo through it. Needs to be removed before you can chain, although it is possible to deploy Vannifar with them still on the battlefield. They also tend to slow down opponents, so keeping them up might be good for you and someone might also blow them up.

Hushbringer, Hushwing Gryff, Torpor Orb
Similar to before, but you can chain through all the parts up to Great Oak Guardian if you have an haste enabler, and up to the Hulk pile with an extra untapper (and it's not Hushbringer). You can even throw extra mana on Incubation Druid and combo through Torpor Orb. Since they doesn't really screw up other players, don't feel bad killing them early if you have the chance.

Rest in Peace, Leyline of the Void, Grafdigger's Cage
Those cards really screw up the chain. Needs to be removed before you can combo. They tend to be prime targets for Breach-based decks and some reanimator combos, so you might want to let them remove it if there are those kind of decks in your meta.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence, Cursed Totem
These cards really hurt the deck. Losing both the win plan and the ramp of the dorks is hard to recover from. Might want to kill them early if there are no commanders with activated abilities on the table since you'll be the only one suffering.

Back to Basics, Blood Moon, Magus of the Moon, Winter Orb, Hokori, Dust Drinker
They are hard if you haven't deployed your dorks yet, but otherwise they won't hurt that much. If you suspect an opponent is running either of the first three cards, maybe consider fetching basics over Tropical Island to prevent a full lockdown. Consider not destroying them if you can, since they tend to kill 4 and 5-color decks.

Static Orb, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Just rough cards to live with all around. Play carefully, and you might even be able to leave them up while you combo.

Sample Hands

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Mana Sources

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Interactions

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Stax Pieces

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Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WBR
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.83
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Treasure
Folders	Wishlist Decks