Blink and You'll Miss It

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

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Lands (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 2x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip

Wincon (5)

• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Deadeye Navigator

Removal (11)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Ashen Rider

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Watcher for Tomorrow
• 1x Ephara, God of the Polis
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun

Mana Ramp (8)

• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Gilded Lotus

Support (8)

• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Emeria Shepherd

Protection (1)

• 1x Eerie Interlude

Commander (1)

Blink (9)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Brago, King Eternal
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Yorion, Sky Nomad
• 1x Deadeye Navigator

Value (9)

• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Djinn of Wishes
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Primordial Mist
• 1x Grave Titan

Tutor (5)

• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon

Topdeck Manipulation (2)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Soothsaying

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Maybeboard

Removal (5)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk

Support (3)

• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Sun Titan

Protection (2)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Mesmerizing Benthid

Value (1)

• 1x AEthermage's Touch

Wincon (5)

• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel

Mana Ramp (2)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Blink (1)

• 1x Eerie Interlude

Other (1)

• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Card Draw (5)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 2x Ponder
• 1x Disinformation Campaign
• 1x Pondering Mage

Lands (4)

• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Orzhov Basilica

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Aminatou is the queen of Esper flicker value town. She can blink any kind of permanent on demand, without forcing it to come back in tapped. This gives us huge potential - we can do everything; hitting landfall triggers, untapping mana rocks, getting extra ETB triggers from our permanents, flipping morphs and face down permanents for free and even regaining control of our stolen permanents as they return under their owner's control!

So, how do we win? We make a lot of mana and we flicker a lot of things.

We can make infinite coloured and colourless mana (we have the lands for it) with:

1. Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake and 3 lands in play that enter untapped
2. Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake and 4 lands in play that enter untapped
3. Eldrazi Displacer + Peregrine Drake and 4 lands in play that enter untapped (one must make colourless mana)
4. Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Oath of Teferi + Spark Double and one land in play that enters untapped
5. Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Felidar Guardian + Oath of Teferi and one land in play that enters untapped
6. Felidar Guardian + Panharmonicon and either Glasspool Mimic   or Phyrexian Metamorph

With any of these combos we can infinitely flicker a creature - "Flickermancer" can also infinitely flicker an artifact (though we won't do that to win here). Which creatures can we flicker indefinitely for silly value? Venser, Shaper Savant Capsize's all of our opponents' boards and is very difficult to disrupt. Ashen Rider exiles all of their stuff. Grave Titan makes us an arbitrarily large number of zombies, but we probably only want to do that in the end step of the preceding turn so that we can swing with them and actually win the turn it goes off. Gonti, Lord of Luxury exiles our opponents libraries and (as we're generating infinite mana) play all of their spells, and Urza, Lord High Artificer enables us to play out our entire deck by dumping mana into his ability.

For Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Oath of Teferi and either Felidar Guiardian or Spark Double, we can infinitely flicker any permanent we own. In that case, we can flicker Piranha Marsh enough times to kill all of our opponents, or anything we like the look of above. The problem is that we can only activate planeswalker abilities at sorcery speed, so our options are a little more limited.

What other odd and fun combos are in there of note?

1. Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Wishclaw Talisman is the cheapest repeatable to-hand-tutor you've ever played
2. Ixidron + Massacre Wurm is a hilarious asymmetrical board wipe that takes two turns (5 and 6 on curve) and just ads insult to injury on so many levels.
3. Primordial Mist + Thassa, Deep-Dwelling is an incredible value engine that we can curve into. If we've got Aminatou on the board we can select exactly which permanent we get for free from the top of our deck. Our other topdeck manipulation cards like Sensei's Divining Top and Soothsaying really set this combo off.
4. Future Sight + Sensei's Divining Top is a 1 mana, 1 card draw engine. With infinite mana, draw the entire library.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Eldrazi Displacer + Peregrine Drake Future Sight + Sensei's Divining Top Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Felidar Guardian + Oath of Teferi Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Oath of Teferi Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Oath of Teferi + Spark Double Ixidron + Massacre Wurm Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Wishclaw Talisman Felidar Guardian + Panharmonicon
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.75
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B