The Infinite Griffin Canyon

Casual Combo Infinite Combo

Texel

Accelerate (4)

• 2x Elvish Mystic
• 2x Silver Myr

Animation (12)

• 3x Animate Land
• 3x Hydroform
• 3x Lifespark Spellbomb
• 3x Verdant Touch

Fetch (13)

• 4x Crop RotationGC
• 2x Dizzy Spell
• 3x Expedition Map
• 4x Muddle the Mixture

Griffinator (8)

• 4x Amoeboid Changeling
• 4x Imagecrafter

Land (18)

• 8x Forest
• 4x Griffin Canyon
• 6x Island

Other (5)

• 1x Flight
• 2x Progenitor Mimic
• 2x Simic Charm

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Sideboard

Accelerate (4)

• 4x Abundant Growth

Fetch (2)

• 2x Wood Sage

Other (9)

• 2x Elephant Grass
• 3x Hidden Herd
• 4x Seedling Charm

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Maybeboard

Other (23)

• 4x Mutavault
• 1x Nissa, Worldwaker
• 4x Scatter to the Winds
• 4x Standardize
• 4x Thespian's Stage
• 4x Tolaria West
• 2x Xenograft

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The Goal, make this a Griffin:

By doing so, it can tap itself to untap itself for +1/+1 ad-infinitum.

The combo requires two components:

It must count as a Creature

• Animate Land Instant creature until end of turn
• Lifespark Spellbomb More expensive creature until end of turn, or draw a card
• Verdant Touch Persistent creature out of land
• Hydroform Perfect animation card, matches our types and adds evasion

(13-Cards in Deck, plus six tutors)

It must count as a Griffin

• Amoeboid Changeling 1/1 Body with good potential to steal any tribal action.
• Imagecrafter Another 1/1 Body with exactly the ability we need, nothing more

Tutors/Fetch

• Dizzy Spell + Muddle the Mixture with Transmute to tutor Amoeboid Changeling or Imagecrafter respectively, and double to recover a method to animate the our Canyon.
• Expedition Map + Crop Rotation for both land fixing and recovering our precious Griffin Canyon

Additionally, we've got a number of mana-acceleration low-costers, Silver Myr and Elvish Mystic as early game blockers and mana sources.

Board

• Elephant Grass acts as solid early delay
• Hidden Herd serves as fantastic creature generation to current meta, but is still conditional
• Abundant Growth Card draw & mana acceleration, a staple
• Wood Sage lets you mill for your type changers
• Seedling Charm Good staying power, removal, and can trample the canyon.

Maybes

• Thespian's Stage is a reasonable replacement for some of the lands to allow for additional fetching of Griffin Canyon, thugh in practice it hasn't been neccessary.
• Scatter to the Winds is a less aggressive but more general variant on Muddle the Mixture but loses our Transmute fetch.
• Nissa, Worldwaker acts as an excellent land animator who grants the canyon it's much needed trample.
• Mutavault Additional land creature that lightly combos with Griffin Canyon
• Standardize Instant variant to making Griffin Canyon a creature, can save a turn by allowing you to convert the type to Griffin without summoning sickness.
• Tolaria West Additional fetch on Griffin Canyon with no drawback, besides cost.
• Xenograft Yet another alernate path to making Griffin Canyon a Griffin, with better staying power.

Finally, as we're not a one trick pony, we accelerate towards Progenitor Mimic which allows us to replicate whatever our opponent has out every turn, paired with surprise creature-lands. A fair number of combat tricks keep your opponent from attacking and helps compensate for all our creatures being 1/1's.

In a whole, the deck is built around fetching, ramping, and control to allow for this outcome, typically within five turns, though best case in three, with sufficient ability to swat down retorts by animating your less important lands for some smackdown.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Splash colors	UG
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 3 Rares 9 - 4 Uncommons 28 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.67
Tokens	Copy Clone