Elvish Tutor (mod)

Modern* Combo Elves GU (Simic) Infinite Combo

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Creature (28)

• 4x Coiling Oracle
• 4x Drift of Phantasms
• 4x Elvish Archdruid
• 4x Elvish Harbinger
• 4x Imperious Perfect
• 4x Kazandu Tuskcaller
• 4x Llanowar Mentor

Land (20)

• 8x Forest
• 4x Hinterland Harbor
• 4x Simic Growth Chamber
• 4x Temple of Mystery

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Intruder Alarm
• 4x Presence of Gond

Artifact (4)

• 4x Staff of Domination

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Creature (41)

• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 4x Elvish Harbinger
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Elvish Visionary
• 8x Fauna Shaman
• 2x Kaho, Minamo Historian
• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Llanowar Mentor
• 2x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 4x Priest of Titania
• 4x Wirewood Channeler

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa Revane

Land (4)

• 4x Wirewood Lodge

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Utopia Sprawl

Artifact (4)

• 4x Citanul Flute

Instant (8)

• 4x Congregation at Dawn
• 4x Summoner's Pact

Sorcery (20)

• 4x Commune with the Gods
• 4x Fabricate
• 4x Idyllic Tutor
• 4x Wargate
• 4x Weird Harvest

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This deck's primary win conditions are a set of infinite combos (borrowed from Infinite Possibility (Elvephants)). I like these combos both because their casting cost is very low and because Simic gives me the possibility for significant mana ramp and card fetching.

Elvish Archdruid + Staff of Domination (with 6 or more elves) allows the Archidruid to tap for mana which is fed into the staff to untap the archdruid. With enough elves out, this process produces a surplus of mana each iteration which can be used for any of the things the staff can tap for.

Intruder Alarm + Kazandu Tuskcaller or Intruder Alarm + Presence of Gond allow you to spawn an infinite number of creature tokens. The infinite number of elves created with Presence of Gond are particularly useful since they let Elvish Archdruid tap for infinite mana.

While it's only a finite combo, limited by green mana, Imperious Perfect + Intruder Alarm does combo to allow many elf creatures to be put into play, which can also boost Elvish Archdruid's mana ramp.

To ensure that even bad draws quickly lead to a win condition, this deck uses Drift of Phantasms to fetch Elvish Archdruid, Intruder Alarm, Presence of Gond or Staff of Domination depending on which card the deck needs to complete one of those infinite combos. Elvish Harbinger similarly fetches a win condition but is restricted to elf cards.

Llanowar Elves and Coiling Oracle help with ramp and ensure that there are enough elves in play for the Elvish Archdruid combo, without slowing the deck down. Be sure to use Temple of Mystery to scry before playing the Coiling Oracle to make sure you draw a land, possibly by bouncing the Temple of Mystery back to your hand with Simic Growth Chamber.

The deck's backup plan, usually to buy time, is just to act as a tribal elf deck. There are 8 lords (Elvish Archdruid & Imperious Perfect each adding +1/+1 to each of the deck's 20 elves (plus tokens). It won't usually win the game, but it's surprisingly strong for a deck that's focused on getting out a winning combo.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Key combos	Intruder Alarm + Presence of Gond Elvish Archdruid + Staff of Domination Intruder Alarm + Kazandu Tuskcaller Imperious Perfect + Intruder Alarm
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Elephant 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Llanowar Elves 1/1 G