Varina Esper Scapeshift

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Lands WUB (Esper)

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Instant (21)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x One with Nothing
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Ad Nauseam

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Planar Birth
• 1x Sickening Dreams
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Dread Return

Land (44)

• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 20x Swamp
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (6)

• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Zuran Orb
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Rhystic Study

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Sideboard

Land (1)

• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad

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Maybeboard

Instant (15)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Despark
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Sunder
• 1x Dig Through Time

Land (7)

• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Not Forgotten
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Treasure Hunt
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Trade Routes
• 1x Blanket of Night
• 1x Necromancy

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Creature (12)

• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Tireless Tribe
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soratami Savant
• 1x Soratami Seer
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan

Artifact (9)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fieldmist Borderpost
• 1x Mistvein Borderpost

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Scapeshift / Splendid Reclamation + Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle is a tried and tested GR combo...

So lets do it without GR, but instead using WBU, with the added restriction of only returning basics

Ad Nauseam + One with Nothing + Planar Birth + Ob Nixilis, the Fallen wins the game in the same manner.

Alternative Show

• One with Nothing : Breakthrough , Tolarian Winds, Windfall, Tireless Tribe

• Ob Nixilis, the Fallen: Dread Presence + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Wincons Show

• Plan A: Abovementioned combo
• Plan B: Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle
• Plan C: ad nauseum + Angel's Grace + Sickening Dreams

Why Varina, the Lich Queen? Show

1. Card draw and filter in the command zone. Bin lands and Ob-Nixilis for the combo turn
2. Lifegain for Ad Naus
3. Tokens for blockers and Dread Return
4. 4/4 beat face go bbrrrrrr. This is the Plan D beatdown wincon

Other cards - Zuran Orb sacs lands for lifegain and Planar Rebirth - Rain of Filth sacs lands and ramps on combo turn - Chain of Vapor can allow you to sac all your lands for combo turn as well, or to fuel Sickening Dreams

The Maybeboard is for budget replacements and more 'casual' version of cards, to make the deck able to withstand the mid-game with a Plan B zombie wincon and grinding value through discarding opponent's hands.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 15 - 1 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.71
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	lonesentinel's EDH completed