Vannifar Budget Creature Aggro

Commander / EDH Budget Casual GU (Simic)

kamuimaru

Creature (49)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Bellowing Tanglewurm
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Caller of the Claw
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Cytoplast Root-Kin
• 1x Deadwood Treefolk
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Foe-Razer Regent
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Kiora's Dambreaker
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mitotic Slime
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Seedguide Ash
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Surrak, the Hunt Caller
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Viridian Corrupter
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Wolfir Silverheart
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad
• 1x Young Wolf
• 1x Zegana, Utopian Speaker

Instant (8)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Negate
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Vitalize

Land (33)

• 14x Forest
• 13x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

Artifact (2)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Simic Locket

Commander (1)

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Rampant Growth

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Wild Growth

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

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I wanted to build a (budget) casual Vannifar deck that doesn't run on infinite combo shenanigans like Vannifar decks usually do. Instead, it's just a creature aggro deck that focuses on using Vannifar to bring out tons of creatures with various cool effects to suit any kind of need.

Themes

- Creatures with ETB and LTB effects

• Creatures that create tokens ( Mitotic Slime ) or have multiple lives ( Young Wolf ) to give Vannifar additional fodder for her effect

• Graveyard recursion ( Deadwood Treefolk , Loaming Shaman ) or reanimation ( Moldgraf Monstrosity ) to recycle the creatures that will be pitched to Vannifar's ability

• Creatures that buff your entire team to make them unmatched in combat ( Bellowing Tanglewurm , Wonder , Loyal Guardian )

• A little of infect ( Viridian Corrupter ) as well as proliferate to go along with the +1/+1 counters and evasion in the deck

List of all ETB or LTB effects

CMC 2:

Coiling Oracle - Draw or ramp

Fblthp, the Lost - Draw 2

CMC 3:

• Caller of the Claw - creates bear tokens for each creature that died this turn
• Deceiver Exarch - tap or untap
• Loaming Shaman - shuffle graveyard into library
• Pestermite - tap or untap target permanent
• Reclamation Sage - destroy target artifact or enchantment
• Viridian Corrupter - destroy target artifact
• Manglehorn - destroy all artifacts
• Wood Elves - ramp
• Yavimaya Dryad - ramp

CMC 4:

• Breaching Hippocamp - tap or untap
• Cytoplast Root-Kin - put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that already has a +1/+1 counter on it

CMC 5:

• Body Double - clone a creature card in any graveyard
• Mitotic Slime - LTB creates tokens
• Mulldrifter - draw 2 cards
• Seedguide Ash - LTB put three forests into play tapped

CMC 6

• Brutalizer Exarch - tutor for a creature or bounce target noncreature permanent to bottom of library
• Deadwood Treefolk - return two creature cards from graveyard to hand
• Great Oak Guardian - +2/+2 buff to all creatures and untap all creatures
• Kiora's Dambreaker - proliferate

CMC 7

• Chancellor of the Spires - cast an instant or sorcery card in an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost
• Foe-Razer Regent - ETB have it fight target creature
• Moldgraf Monstrosity - LTB return two creature cards at random from the graveyard to the battlefield
• Scourge of Fleets - bounce all creatures your opponents control with toughness less than the islands you control

CMC 8

• End-Raze Forerunners - other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn

Help wanted with cuts, ways to make the deck faster, and better creatures, especially the big ones at the higher CMCs which are supposed to be the finishers. It's a budget casual deck but I still want to improve it.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Ooze 1/1 G, Ooze 2/2 G for Mitotic Ooze, Plant 0/1 G